March 8, 2018: NEW YORK (AP) — In the wake of the Florida school shooting, President Donald Trump is reviving an old debate over whether violent video games can trigger violent behavior....
Trump plans to meet Thursday with representatives from the video game industry. Trump’s recent public comments referencing the “vicious” level of game and movie violence in the context of school safety show that he is eager to explore the issue.
The Entertainment Software Association, the biggest video game trade group, said Monday that it will attend the meeting at the White House.
Trump reopens a seemingly settled video-game debate
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I am boldly trying again to start a discussion on video games and their influence on real violence. Since it's on the headline news today, TV and Internet, and you'd think it wouldn't be too awful or taboo to discuss it ---- though my thread on the topic in Clean Debate Zone a couple weeks ago was deleted. Maybe it will be possible to discuss it on this forum, as it IS current events news.
For instance, Nikolas Cruz did slam his mother against the wall when she took away his Xbox, and the police were called on that occasion. So he was indeed a gamer.
So am I. There are a lot of very violent shooter games now -- I have played one of them for two months now -- and there are also movies that are basically killing violence from opening to end; and novels are breaking all the old taboos, with plot elements that never used to be written: torture, violence against children, an unending obsession by the hundreds with grotesque attacks on women.
Has this had an effect on real violence in society? I fear I'll get banned for asking, but it does seem to me it ought to be possible to discuss this topic in public forums.
Trump plans to meet Thursday with representatives from the video game industry. Trump’s recent public comments referencing the “vicious” level of game and movie violence in the context of school safety show that he is eager to explore the issue.
The Entertainment Software Association, the biggest video game trade group, said Monday that it will attend the meeting at the White House.
Trump reopens a seemingly settled video-game debate
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I am boldly trying again to start a discussion on video games and their influence on real violence. Since it's on the headline news today, TV and Internet, and you'd think it wouldn't be too awful or taboo to discuss it ---- though my thread on the topic in Clean Debate Zone a couple weeks ago was deleted. Maybe it will be possible to discuss it on this forum, as it IS current events news.
For instance, Nikolas Cruz did slam his mother against the wall when she took away his Xbox, and the police were called on that occasion. So he was indeed a gamer.
So am I. There are a lot of very violent shooter games now -- I have played one of them for two months now -- and there are also movies that are basically killing violence from opening to end; and novels are breaking all the old taboos, with plot elements that never used to be written: torture, violence against children, an unending obsession by the hundreds with grotesque attacks on women.
Has this had an effect on real violence in society? I fear I'll get banned for asking, but it does seem to me it ought to be possible to discuss this topic in public forums.