[Tom4784]

Stuff likes this only gets reported to try to stir moral panics. Both the Media and a lot of politicians are trying to turn Video Games into the new 'Video Nasties'. A good moral panic works wonders for votes and sales.

Games can't change a person no matter how much they are played, if someone has a lack of empathy it'll either be that they were born like that or that they've had a real life experience that made them that way. Games, like Books, TV shows and Films are just a form of entertainment, if a murderer went on a rampage and it turned out that they were a fan of Eastenders you wouldn't blame Eastenders for the murders so it's stupid to blame games whenever something terrible happens.

If you can't tell the difference between right and wrong by the time you're a teenager then that's the fault of bad parenting, not playing GTA. There's underlying issues that causes these problems and all that blaming games will do is let whatever is causing these issues to continue. Lazy parenting is far more dangerous to a child's development then any video game will ever be.