and the runner up is:
In which video games are blamed for a gang rape
Essentially, the current generation of violent video games are military-grade training/conditioning systems. They train players to commit the most obscene acts and even crimes without consequence. What many people fail to remember is that play, especially among children, is a rehearsal for real-life. As people play, so will they act in the real-world. If a young man is inclined to violence anyways – and most are – and has played Grand Theft Auto for several years, he will be more likely to accept real auto theft as an acceptable act. It’s not a certainty, very few things involving humans are, but it raises the likelyhood considerably.
Emphasis mine. Though I could emphasize the whole thing for sheer ignorance.
Much like other entertainment mediums cherished by past generations, video games cause their users to lose all sense of conscience and gamers only grow to the mimic the worlds the experience in video games. If only we could return to our crime free past when we didn’t have books, movies, TV, or even story-telling. Then we would be able to live again and not have to worry.
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