Desensitized to Violence

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[pennsays]

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[tohidefromourways]

I'd like to see Penn Jillette justify mosh pits where people rip pigs apart while they're alive, and even worse where people get trampled to death.

[pennsays]

@tohidefromourways Ugh, I have never heard of that (not Penn, just helping out with the comments).

[tohidefromourways]

I think what the Chinese do to animals can be so controversial that people go to the extremes. one day animals are either gonna die out, or adapt to learn to say 'no more! stop!'

[pennsays]

@tohidefromourways I know I wouldn't eat a talking animal.

[tohidefromourways]

@pennsays I wouldn't either. Biologists are actually so advanced that they can give mice embryos thumbs. Whether or not a mouse can be born and those said thumbs actually function is beyond me. I saw it on NOVA and didn't get to finish the episode. I hope someday we can genetically alter an/all animal(s) with the proper vocal chords to speak a human language and find out how they feel and think, instead of making assumptions from their actions. :P Then again, Penn, I'm just a wishful thinker.

[pennsays]

@tohidefromourways I'm not Penn, I just help out with the comments. Do you think even if we gave them vocal chords they would tell us? Parrots can emulate us, and they have shown how smart they are, but they haven't told us how they feel.

[WAMill3R]

Hell, the most violent places on earth are places where video games are rare or nonexistent.

[asaye83]

The root cause of Hitler's final solution was clearly the culmination of massed griefing over time from other players in Halo 3.

[Kipicus]

@droedup92 If you really think about it, do you know a soldier, or ANY man that grew up in the 80's on up that NEVER played video games? I'm some have not, but I am sure that the majority of soldiers that have fought in this current war have grown up playing game like Mortal Kombat, Primal Rage and Silent Hill, and yet there are SO many PTSD cases. If video game desensitized, wouldn't there be FEWER cases of PTSD? Just say'n. I don't know where you aggression is coming from.

[droedup92]

@Kipicus What point were you trying to make with soldiers and video games anyway? How do you know if any of these people that came back from combat with PTS even played video games(violent ones at that)? Your statement was pointless.

[Kipicus]

@droedup92 I really wish you had better tact when putting together your comment; but anonymity begs for the freedom to shock regardless of the circumstance to the victim, I suppose. Either way, I appreciate your comment, although your violent description made it difficult for me to understand what you where saying. But I got'cha, that indeed would be the difference between those two things. The difference between playing a video game and killing someone. It almost didn't even need to be said.

[droedup92]

@Kipicus well maybe because when you blow someones head off in a video game your mind knows it's not real and you know no one really died. Obviously the emotional reaction is going to be different if you kill someone in real life just imagine someone you shot was lying in a pool of blood in front of you spitting up blood and begging for god unless your a fucking pyschopath your going to have an emotional reaction. It all depends on the person and how they deal with those feelings.

[Kipicus]

I also have this idea of how many Soldier are coming back to America with PTS and PTSD. And this is the generation that grew up with the Mortal Combat series, with the blood settings and the graphic Fatalities. Wouldn't having played games like that growing up, have desensitized them? And yet there is such a HIGH number of soldiers coming back so heavily traumatized by war. I'm not a doctor or anything... but.... I was just thinkin' that the other day.

[simyan2012]

Desensitized to Violence is such fucking a narrow minded post modernistic thing to say, if anything it's the other way round and people have actually BECOME sensitised to violence. trauma is a natural part of life, our birth is traumatic, our death, the best we can hope for is a peaceful one but i'm guessing most don't get what they hope for. so who actually decides what is the naturally correct state of mind, and who the fuck said being desensitised removes your ability to tell right from wrong

[bookcreator]

Video games don't cause a person to be violent. However, I believe that video games cause kids to have a different view on violence than they would otherwise.

[grandmasterreggae]

@tohidefromourways LOL wut