Dr. Phil Is Dead To Me
Created on: April 17th, 2007
Appologies if it's already been done, but Phil is a f*cking moron.
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If you look into it the majority of school shootings occur shortly after Spring Break. What am I saying? I blame it on uptight parents who wouldn't let every teenager and 20 something year old should do. Go somewhere get sh*t faced, f*ck strangers and most likely contract a disease. Sure you're head might hurt and it may burn when you piss for a while...but at least yuo're happy enough to not want to kill people.
It's quite sad... if you want to experience incest, genocide, graphic and lewd details, and just about every bad thing, read the Old Testament.
Video games aren't the problem... it's people who can't distinguish between fantasy and reality that are the problem. And not just that. There could be personal problems, cultural problems, even something like tripping over a rock. With the perfectly unstable mind, anything could set it off.
To quote the great philosopher Chris Rock, "What the f*ck happened to crazy? Did we eliminate crazy from the dictionary?" The assole, Ching Chong F*ck or whatever his name happened to be was a crazy *ssh*le who got it into his head that whatever problems he had could be solved by murdering 32 people who had absolutley nothing to do with whatever was pissing him off. It wasn't the video games, or music, or the NRA, it was one lone maniac with a chip on his shoulder.
why does everything have to have one cause? i think there is some validity to the argument that video games desensitize people to violence, but there are so many other vulnerabilities that contribute to this kind of outcome. for example, would he have killed these people if he continued to play fps'es, but was treated for his psychological problems? would he have done it if he weren't as socially isolated? what if he couldn't purchase guns legally? those are the relevant etiological questions.
Yes, the news desensitizes people to violence. Maturity in general can have that effect. The distinction between violent video games and the news is that the former often rewards morally abject behavior. It is a distinction of degree. I'm not saying, that it was the major etiological cause. Most people, myself included, who play violent video games don't go around shooting up dormitories, but it does create a vulnerability, however small.
What I'm saying is this: if you're going to do a taxonomy of the massacre and deem that video games was a cause, their relevance should be contextualized with reference to the other more serious contributors like social isolation, psychological problems and access to guns. If you want to prevent more events like this from happening, perhaps creating a "ban" on those last 3 items would be more effective.
You know why? The media would rather report on people being shot by criminals than people using guns to stop them. It's not a human interest story if someone innocent doesn't get hurt/killed/maimed/robbed/raped/shanked/ect. The fact is, guns have prevented countless crimes without a shot being fired. The fear of death is enough to scare away most criminals, and those it doesn't? They end up being glorified on the news.
Media bias and statistics are very different. A stark comparison: Canada vs. US. People have similar wealth, especially in city areas, so why are the crime rates so much lower in Canadian cities where it's illegal to carry a gun? Shouldn't criminals run rampant with their illegally acquired guns? Again, your point has some logical validity, but very little empirical backing. If you want to play the "violent minorities card," Toronto is the most ethnically diverse city in the world.
You bring up low crime rates, then why is it that Switzerland, where all males are required to undergo military training and required to keep a working assault rifle in their homes, has one of the lowest crime rates in the world? Surely, with all those assault rifles everyone's got, the crime rate should be skyrocketing! Massacres should occur daily based on the availability of guns, especially fully automatic ones.
The country is racially homogenous and everyone is (relatively) rich. There almost no income polarity. Why would anyone want to rob anyone? Point being that access to guns + poor/stupid people = crime and violence. You want opposite example to fill in this correlation? Try Sierra Leone. This a tangent we shouldn't go down. More to point what kills more people than assault with firearms in the US? Do you know? I can name one that does by a factor of 10: accidental discharge of firearms.
The idea that video games cause mass murder is bullsh*t. I was playing Wolfenstein 3D when I was 5 and Doom when I was 6 and other violent games as I've grown up (I'm 18 now), and I'm not a murderer. I'm not going to go around killing innocent people because the idea of it was put into my head during my childhood. Dr. Phil can kiss my *ss if he thinks video games make psychopaths.
Yanno, if violent videogames are to blame, what about violent books and movies? Yes, video games can be violent, but anything can trigger violent behaviour. Books, movies, even a pesky brother. And of course the legal ability to own guns helps a lot. If you really want to solve this problem, get rid of every piece of media that suggests violence as a solution. Or take every shooter and replace the guns with walkie talkies.
The guy who went on the killing spree was insane. It had nothing to do with video games. He was a South Korean student who was majoring in English who was slowly starting to lose his mind. His essays and stories that he was turning in to his teacher were so sick and twisted that the teacher refered him to counciling. For Dr. Phil toexploit this horrible event for his anti-video game agenda is just outrageous and immoral. F*ck him.
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