[Parmy]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

Posting the same link that's already been dealt with in the thread won't work, Parm. You should also read it before you post it because it's not what you think it is.

It's basically saying that gaming is highly popular, there's been a lot of studies with similar results that people have interpreted in different ways despite the results being similar every time. There's little to no conclusions in that article.

Video games or films do not make people violent.

Hell, playing and watching these things certainly has made me or the other people in this thread with similar experiences no less emphatic or prone to violence. I feel faint when confronted with footage of people who have actually been harmed, maimed or killed and it seems like the same is true for other people too but, to piggy back off of TS's point. There's a lot of people who will clutch their their pearls over a video game but are desensitised to dead immigrant children washing up on shore.

I'd rather be unbothered by simulated violence and affected by the real life equivalent then pretend to be offended by simulated violence but be unaffected by witnessing actual death and harm.

I posted your previous response to the findings by the American psycholigy association..that is not dealing with it at all...you have rebutted nothing that the findings have said..