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Date: 2004-09-28 06:00:13

Comment:

Video games don't do anything to encourage violence they may act as a way of outletting that violence but they won't cause it.  Example If a child has severe problems at home that he feels he must hurt someone HOW he hurts someone may be inspired by the game or film bbut if it weren't there he would simply use a different method, or to put it another way how many million people play GTA across the globe? How many million Teenagers actually kill people?
Futher still lets look at other examples in  Europe there are often football (soccer) hooligans causing trouble now many of these don't care about football they are often merely spoiling for a fight banning football would be a pointless move as they simply find another reason to fight.
Incidentally by banning games which depict often UNREALISTIC violence you should equally ban news which reports very real violence.  The whole arguement is of course completly reactionary. The job of a responsible parent is not to wrap there child in a cotten wool existence where nothing bad ever happens but rather teach them the realities of life so they can gain the knowledge to make changes for the better.
Most of the time a child can distinguish between reality and fantasy, especially with violence (take cartoons.