[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Christmas treeza

So I refer to actual scientific study and you to an analogy involving the Loch Ness monster?... ok.

I haven't stated at all that games make people violent.... you're wrong there,I suggested they normalise violence to an extent where it may be possible to become desensitised TO violence.

I had an opinion on the topic, it'd disingenuous of you to suggest I haven't watched the trailer or if I did I mustn't have understood it, I found that insulting. It's not for you to say how I find your responses .

I don't accept your 'right ' to tell me my opinions are wrong, and as I have stated many times now the accusation of being ignorant or inexperienced on any given topic is not a reason to denigrate anyones opinion.

It may be that a longitudinal study is required the measure the childhood to adulthood effects...who knows?

I don't care one iota whether you feel my opinion is wrong, bur have the respect to acknowledge I am entitled to feel how I choose on this or any topic.

As we've already said, the study you linked to had a fatal flaw that you haven't really responded to. Sure, if people play enough games they become desensitised to violence WITHIN games but that doesn't mean they become desensitised to REAL violence or become more prone to committing it either.

Like I said in the examples before, if you watch a sad film enough times, it won't affect you the way it did when you first watched it, it doesn't mean that you won't be emotionally affected if you were to suffer a similar emotional event in real life as the characters in the said film.

It's been over twenty years since these kinds of studies have taken place and that's probably not counting the studies that would have happened in the 80's and such when Mary Whitehouse got up on a soapbox and wanted to ban whatever upset her. If there was any real proof, it would have been discovered by now.

Don't try to make out people are insulting you because you are losing the argument, you are reaching with these accusations and it's obvious to everyone.

It IS my right to tell you you are wrong because that's my ****ing opinion. I don't care if you can't accept that, it doesn't change the fact that I think you're wrong and all you are doing with your accusations is exactly what you are accusing me of doing.