[Vicky.]

Never seen any of these. Nor do I plan to.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Jesus.H.Christ

Well for example, I think Dezzy was simply using a turn of phrase that she didn't mean exactly as it was written down, and you did sort of just reduce her argument down and end all discussion.

*Although, I don't know Dezzy (and have never had a conversation with her), and she may well have meant that she literally "detests" those people, but I somehow doubt it.

* No Dezzys or Kizzys were harmed in the writing of this post.

Dezzy is a he

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Dezzy is a he

Errrrrr, hmmmmmm, yeah, I errrrrrrrr know. Ooooops.

See, that proves my point that I don't know him!

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

If people are going to go out and commit heinous crimes then the potential for them to do so existed within them long before they played Call of Duty.

It's a point I'm not going to budge on, I just think by even entertaining the idea we're vindicating criminals. Blaming games and films is an excellent way of avoiding the problem at hand.

I agree 100%

It always seems to be the fault of someone else though whenever something bad happens so if video games etc werent getting the blame it would be something/someone else. Its never the fault of the person actually committing the crime.

Actually I think this was from scream...films dont create murderers, they just make murderers more creative...I do think theres an element of truth to that. Though the people who do things would do it whether they play games/watch films/whatever anyways.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

I agree 100%

It always seems to be the fault of someone else though whenever something bad happens so if video games etc werent getting the blame it would be something/someone else. Its never the fault of the person actually committing the crime.

Actually I think this was from scream...films dont create murderers, they just make murderers more creative...I do think theres an element of truth to that. Though the people who do things would do it whether they play games/watch films/whatever anyways.

Yes, this is what I was trying to say earlier but not as clearly

[Marc]

Imagine if Saw happened in real life...

[Scarlett.]

I don't think films influence people, but there is are lines between decency, shocking material and just down right morally bankrupt material

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Chewy

I don't think films influence people, but there is are lines between decency, shocking material and just down right morally bankrupt material

Yeah, I agree with that too

[Kizzy]

Why dont you all just shurrup!

[Kizzy]

this is sort of the point i was trying to make...
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/brad.bushman/files/ba09.pdf

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Marc

Imagine if Saw happened in real life...

it did kinda, some guy in Australia broke into a house and put a bomb collar like from saw around a girls neck. This wasn't that long ago.

Luckily it wasn't a real bomb, but she didn't know that. Imagine the terror.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-col...816-1iv7m.html

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by lostalex

it did kinda, some guy in Australia broke into a house and put a bomb collar like from saw around a girls neck. This wasn't that long ago.

Luckily it wasn't a real bomb, but she didn't know that. Imagine the terror.

Hmmmmm....you mean a sicko acted out something from a sick film?

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by kizzy

Hmmmmm....you mean a sicko acted out something from a sick film?

Not really, because there was another case, before the SAW movies came out in America, where there was a real Bomb Collar put on a Pizza Delivery guy, and the bomb actually went off, and he died. It happened on Live TV too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Douglas_Wells

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Jesus.H.Christ

I agree

[Kizzy]

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.