24th April 2007, 8:17 AM
"You take that and mix it with a psychopath, a sociopath or someone suffering from mental illness and add in a dose of rage, the suggestibility is too high. And we're going to have to start dealing with that."
Yeah... except that the psychopath, sociopath, or person suffering from mental illness could... I dunno... kill people anyway? You know, without the influence of video games? The video games aren't the problem--it's the mental illness. So instead of trying to eliminate our fun, why not try and find ways to identify mental illness early on and treat it? I also still find it rather irritating that he has never attempted to make any connection between gun violence in America and video games. The only evidence to support this claim is that some video games happen to contain violence. There's nothing suggesting that Cho Seung-Hui played video games--in fact, as the article said, Jack Thompson was blaming video games before the Virginia Tech gunman was even identified. But hey, it's tragedies such as this that give scumbags like Thompson the publicity that he feeds off of. I doubt he cares if he even makes any progress in his crusade. While some people seek attention by committing violent crimes, Thompson obtains it by blaming said crimes on video games. Doesn't matter if everyone thinks he's full of shit.
Yeah... except that the psychopath, sociopath, or person suffering from mental illness could... I dunno... kill people anyway? You know, without the influence of video games? The video games aren't the problem--it's the mental illness. So instead of trying to eliminate our fun, why not try and find ways to identify mental illness early on and treat it? I also still find it rather irritating that he has never attempted to make any connection between gun violence in America and video games. The only evidence to support this claim is that some video games happen to contain violence. There's nothing suggesting that Cho Seung-Hui played video games--in fact, as the article said, Jack Thompson was blaming video games before the Virginia Tech gunman was even identified. But hey, it's tragedies such as this that give scumbags like Thompson the publicity that he feeds off of. I doubt he cares if he even makes any progress in his crusade. While some people seek attention by committing violent crimes, Thompson obtains it by blaming said crimes on video games. Doesn't matter if everyone thinks he's full of shit.