Shouldn't the "Otaku Murderer" bullet be in the Anime/Manga folder. It seems to be more fitting there.
I know we're not an encyclopedia, but are we sure we want to use such a misleading chart?
Hide / Show RepliesI second that. A) The chart doesn't start at 0. B) It leads tropers to believe that crime is reduced by violent video games, while it's more likely having to with other factors. I could show another chart that shows incarceration rates going up every year and put the games on the graphs.
While we're on the subject: "People who play violent games for a long period of time can be desensitized to committing violence, making them more likely to commit murders or hurt others. However, a) this effect only occurs with those who were already inclined to commit violence..."
It's debatable just how much interplay there is between desensitization to violence and whether or not someone is inclined to it already, but the desensitization effect itself is more universal than that. You don't have to be violent already to be desensitized to violence by... wait a minute, did it say "desensitized to committing violence" before?
There is a long history of using this very phenomena. The military has in fact found that the more the target looks like the enemy in target practice, the less likely soldiers are to hesitate to fire the first time in real combat.
Granted, we are talking about people who are trained and conditioned to kill when ordered to so this doesn't make the case for banning violent video games but the accuracy of simulations is enough of a factor in helping overcome that inhibition that the military has invested in improving their methods.
Edited by gibberingtroperThis page quote, despite the issue at hand, is AWFUL.
Hide / Show RepliesOBJECTION! Simply saying "it's awful" is not a valid argument. State your case first.
EDIT: I guess that solves that.
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While I don't think violent video games cause murder increase, but I think that "lack of correlation means lack of causation" is actually fallacious. According to this site, https://www.christopherspenn.com/2018/08/can-causation-exist-without-correlation/ , causation can happen even with lack of correlation.
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