12th October 2005, 5:39 PM
The only truth to his arguments is that exposure to things does affect people in some way... but in the way he suggests? No. Maybe it does help innure people to violence or whatever, but the whole media does that, not just videogames... sure, video games could be called "worse" because they are interactive, but I don't think there's a very big difference. Blaming it all on videogames is stupid, of course. The better question is "how does the media/popular culture (music, movies, videogames, etc) affect children/people?", and that's a much better question.
But even there, the answer isn't "it makes them all violent killers", of that we can be certain...
But even there, the answer isn't "it makes them all violent killers", of that we can be certain...