Do movies/v.games desensitize us to violence?

[Dizaster]

This is one topic that experts are ALWAYS pointing at whenever the issue of violence in our streets comes up. They say that because we watch violence from a young age in movies, witnessing 1000's of murders on television before we are even 18, and 10,000's of "assaults", we are more likely to go out and do it ourselves, or less likely to care that it's happening in the world....

I personally think it's bullshit..

I mean look at the most violent countries regions in the world.. 99% of their population probably doesn't even know what a Playstation is.
Close to billions of people over the course of history have been killed because of someone elses religious beliefs.. From history alone, the bible has incited a million times more violence and death than any video game or movie could dream of..
Violence has gone on for 100,000's more years than video games have, and the civilized countries where video games are most used, are probably the least violent....

Do you think video games or movies have desensitized you?

[Scrap]

We were warned it would happen when I was younger, And I thought they were talking Bollocks. Not anymore do I think that, now Im certain it does.

[JazMerkin]

Asking do they desensitize us and do they cause violence are two different questions. I don't think movies or videogames cause us to go out there and beat people up, but I think they do desensitize us to violence, particularly violent movies.

[Dizaster]

Asking do they desensitize us and do they cause violence are two different questions. I don't think movies or videogames cause us to go out there and beat people up, but I think they do desensitize us to violence, particularly violent movies.

Do you think you would be less disturbed seeing a murder or seeing someone get beaten to death in real life because you've seen it in movies??

Personally, when news stations show clips that people have taken on their mobile phone, of someone getting beaten, or kids attacking other kids and kicking them on the ground,,, it makes my stomach turn... By the age of 16 i'd probably seen close to 100,000 assaults on television, but out at a public gathering I saw a fight where a guy got another guy on the ground on his stomach, and hit his face into a road about 4 times, causing his forehead and nose to split open, and I was sick for days over that......

When I was a kid I would run around with toy guns and knives pretending to shoot and stab my friends, and it was nothing but fun... But if I saw someone get stabbed in real life, my emotions would be completely different.. It wouldn't be fun, it would be sick.....

I think their is an underestimation for humans to destinguish real from fake.... My mind, my body, my emotions KNOW the difference between violence in a movie, which in the worse possible case scenario like a "Hostel" movie, I may cringe a little and my muscles will tense a bit, but if I saw even a 100th of that type of violence in real life or on a video I knew was real, I would be traumatized....

I dunno.. I just don't see it... Honestly I think if you watch violence on tv, and then still aren't distrubed by real life violence, you have a problem..... OR, you just werne't distrubed by real life violence in the first place, and television has nothing to do with it..


As for it causing violence or making people violent... You go into a pub and try to start a fight, give it 3 seconds and you'll be in one... Go into an internet cafe where they have a tornament with one of the most violent games you can find, and you'll struggle to get a single guy's attention, let alone out of his seat to confront you... Or go to a gaming expo and try to find one fucking guy who you think is prone to violence..

Video games are for f'n nerds... Perhaps maybe on some extreme stretch a very very very focused study that is single mindedly dedicated to finding a link between video game violence and real violence, may be able to find some connection... But they'd already be studying violent people to begin with. there would probably be a 99% chance they would be violent even without video games. And in one extreme case maybe one or two will have re-enacted things they saw in a game.. But that would be considerably extreme, and ignoring the fact their are billions of people all over the world who play games and are NEVER violent... Modern Warfare 2 had 8 million online players within 5 days.. That is 8 million kids, teens, adults, probably 99% NERDS, at home on a weekending playing playstation.. Meanwhile their are 8 million people who never play video games, out in pubs and the streets, 10000000 times more likely to get in a fight or aguement or confrontation...

I agree that a study can prove anything.. You can prove that lack of water causes violence. boredom causes violence... But it is absolutley f'n ridiculous that video games gets generalized as causing violence....

People have been causing violence long long long before video games showed us how... And in fact video games probably does a lot more to keep people inside, playing healthily in front of the tv, than going out and increasing their chance of associating with naturally violent or messed up people, or getting in gangs, or getting drunk, or any other of the 1000 ways that humans are influenced into violence and confrontation.....

Personally I think if you got every person in the entire world hooked on violent video games, there would be less violence... a fucking lot less... I'd say almost 99.99999999999999999999999999999% of violence that goes on in the world, is commited by people who have about 1 to 0% interested in video games.... Sure some of them may have played a violent video game, or watched violent movies, but to stretch the figures sooooooooooo far to suggest that these forms of entertainment CAUSED the violence, or even contributed to it in a significat way to warrent regular attacks on this entertainment, is absolutely and completely delusional....

Anyone who buys into the "experts" has been unfortunately swindled... I cannot beleive that more whole heartedly...

[yvonne]

No way.There's a few things that cause it,1)Drugs,2)Socity,3)lack of discipline as a child,4)and just being plain fucked up in the cranium!

[HattonTheHammer]

of course they do

i was the very last of the generations that never had internet as a child apart from the one guy in school who had a 256kb connection. The only way you got to see a naked lady was from the odd disgarded smut mag and even at the age of 14/15 we found the whole thing very confusing.

By the time i first got laid i hadnt a clue what to do other than the basics. Had i of been able to of spent 3/4 years studying boogies stash i would of been totally fine

[Dizaster]

of course they do

i was the very last of the generations that never had internet as a child apart from the one guy in school who had a 256kb connection. The only way you got to see a naked lady was from the odd disgarded smut mag and even at the age of 14/15 we found the whole thing very confusing.

By the time i first got laid i hadnt a clue what to do other than the basics. Had i of been able to of spent 3/4 years studying boogies stash i would of been totally fine

LOL, by the time I was 15, I was the super magnificant magic wizard clit master of the universe! I signed up to all the forums about how to give girls orgasms and find the g-spot and give girls hour long orgasms from a specific clit rubbing technique.. I was the absolute pussy master! From 15 to 18, my fingers were almost permanetly pruned from being soaked in pussy juice to the bone for hours every night...

Thank god for Welcomed Consensus Online 1996

[Gandalf]

I think allowing pre teenage kids access to violent movies and games is probably harmful. When I was young there were fighting games, but they had poor graphics and it was all cartoon-esque. These days kids are playing games with quality graphics and blood spewing everywhere. They are shooting prostitutes and all sorts of things; quite graphic.

I think the disintegration of modern society has come from a variety of sources, but access to that kind of crap when you are still trying to make sense of the world is probably not too healthy. They should be reading a few good books at that age and learning a thing or two and instead they live in a world of fantasy violence.

Not that I am above that, mind you. I quite like blowing up buildings and garroting people, but I'm old enough to know that I would never want to do that kind of thing in real life. I never had access to that kind of stuff as a kid and I wouldn't want my kids playing those kinds of games either. Sonic and Mario are far better games for youngsters.

[HattonTheHammer]

of course they do

i was the very last of the generations that never had internet as a child apart from the one guy in school who had a 256kb connection. The only way you got to see a naked lady was from the odd disgarded smut mag and even at the age of 14/15 we found the whole thing very confusing.

By the time i first got laid i hadnt a clue what to do other than the basics. Had i of been able to of spent 3/4 years studying boogies stash i would of been totally fine

LOL, by the time I was 15, I was the super magnificant magic wizard clit master of the universe! I signed up to all the forums about how to give girls orgasms and find the g-spot and give girls hour long orgasms from a specific clit rubbing technique.. I was the absolute pussy master! From 15 to 18, my fingers were almost permanetly pruned from being soaked in pussy juice to the bone for hours every night...

Thank god for Welcomed Consensus Online 1996

See thats the sort of shit that can get the lame scruffy kid (myself) who at 14/15 no girl would touch some pussy

It took me till i was 18 to finally pop my cherry because i was so damn afraid of messing up and getting the reputation as a shit shag and even then i was a complete wreck.

Now naturally im a super stud and women come all over the country for my services





********************************DISCLAIMER******** ***********************

Some of the above may not be true

[Dizaster]

of course they do

i was the very last of the generations that never had internet as a child apart from the one guy in school who had a 256kb connection. The only way you got to see a naked lady was from the odd disgarded smut mag and even at the age of 14/15 we found the whole thing very confusing.

By the time i first got laid i hadnt a clue what to do other than the basics. Had i of been able to of spent 3/4 years studying boogies stash i would of been totally fine

LOL, by the time I was 15, I was the super magnificant magic wizard clit master of the universe! I signed up to all the forums about how to give girls orgasms and find the g-spot and give girls hour long orgasms from a specific clit rubbing technique.. I was the absolute pussy master! From 15 to 18, my fingers were almost permanetly pruned from being soaked in pussy juice to the bone for hours every night...

Thank god for Welcomed Consensus Online 1996

See thats the sort of shit that can get the lame scruffy kid (myself) who at 14/15 no girl would touch some pussy

It took me till i was 18 to finally pop my cherry because i was so damn afraid of messing up and getting the reputation as a shit shag and even then i was a complete wreck.

Now naturally im a super stud and [wo]men come all over the country for my services





********************************DISCLAIMER******** ***********************

Some of the above may not be true

Hey, don't be too hard on yourself with a disclaimer.. There were only two single letters which should not have been there..

[Andre]

We were warned it would happen when I was younger, And I thought they were talking Bollocks. Not anymore do I think that, now Im certain it does.

I agree ,on the whole the types of violence is much more imaginative than in your times and in your times it would end when anyone hit the ground; Now a days it starts when they hit the ground and ends when you take their wallet or part of their life away.

Serial killers gain their ideas from others so do other evil beings,its a seed in their minds that grow because they havent any control over themselves.

Most people have control ,have been taught control even if they have no real love,so I dont think games are to blame and not all videos either but some kinds of vids do help the sick fuks ply their trade.

If you study the crime channel they teach you how not to make any mistakes if you study it close enough same goes for boarder security if your a smuggler it goes without saying,watch live and learn.

[Andre]

To be honest; (which most cant stand) I actually think there is alot more to it than meets the eye, including cemicals in foods, false nutrients,electromagnetic energy flying all over the place making us irrational as well as irritable with each other.The pace of city life increasing,lack of sleep etc.
Violence is on the increase just from people letting off steam even in the traffic.

Its easier to blame others for our inner disruptions than to look within for the cause too.

Then there are the lower frequencies that match fear into anger exactly so that one attracts the other to a degree and more than that if you dig deeper.
Theres a hell of alot of pieces to it all.