Games make you kill people!

[Fredrik]

Just saw aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/0,2789,302893,00.html ]this (Swedish) article. The essence of it is that two 14-years-old boys were arrested yesterday for having hewed someone in the stomach with an axe last week.

The most of the article, including the ingress, focuses on the fact that the kids had been playing a role-playing computer game during the evening, and further mentions that the boy who confessed had seen the victim as a "game enemy".

The last paragraph discreetly mentions that the kids were in the clouds on unknown amounts of Rohypnol and alcohol. Certainly that's just a minor parameter.

[boris]

Heh did they wound their victim? I could imagine you have to have a pretty sharp axe and a lot force to hew into somebodys stomach (through clothing and stuff).

[Fredrik]

He was sent to a hospital but there's no word on how serious the wound was (probably not near-lethal).

[Nanami]

Christ, this is so annoying to hear. When is the media going to grow up?

Games don't make people kill people. If they did, there'd be 1,000,000,000 murders a day.

[Disorder]

Funny how alcohol and other sorts of drugs suddenly become irrelevant when a kid has played a game.

[Nanami]

Heh, "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to McDonalds makes you a hamburger." I think that can carry over here. =P

[Rotting Corpse]

I shot some one cuz I play doom!
Gezz people are so damn stuped.

[BlueSonnet]

Not this old chestnut again.

[Ichor]

Was the axe enchanted?

[Job]

*sigh* Guns make you kill people, drugs make you kill people, alcohol makes you kill people, sex makes you kill people, Beavis & Butthead make you kill people, Tom Green makes you kill people, Teletubbies makes you kill people, goatse makes you kill people, eggs make you kill people, cholesterol and carbohydrates make you kill people, homosexuality makes you kill people, Godless idolatry makes you kill people...now games make you kill people!? Man, how come being pissed off doesn't make you kill people? Are people so pathetic that they can't admit they were just really PO'd? Or do they need a scapegoat evertime? Geez.

[Nanami]

Next they're going to start saying that games cause cancer too.

[Job]

Nanami said:

Next they're going to start saying that games cause cancer too.

These days, everything causes cancer. : /

[Nanami]

Job said:

These days, everything causes cancer. : /

I believe some friends and I concluded that not having cancer causes cancer.

[Job]

Nanami said:

I believe some friends and I concluded that not having cancer causes cancer.

Well said...how long till they say that having sex causes cancer? And that the best way to avoid getting cancer is to have it already? Kind of like the mob protection thing. If you already have some other form of cancer, the rest stays away, since we all know that cancer respects the turf of other cancers. My advice: go out and get a non-malignant form of cancer today, like fingernail cancer!

[Ichor]

Or maybe get several types of cancers. They might be so busy fighting over territory that they won't even bother trying to destroy your body.

Of course, death doesn't cause cancer...well, not yet anyway.

[Nanami]

If death caused cancer, we're really be in for it.

[Job]

Nanami said:

If death caused cancer, we're really be in for it.

Yeah, I'd be pissed if I had to have that crazy bald-making cancer treatment after I die. I mean, hey, I want to look good for the worms and grave robbers.

[Rotting Corpse]

Next,thay will be saying milk causes cancer.

[Lüt]

Rotting Corpse said:

Next,thay will be saying milk causes cancer.

But it does!

[boris]

I always knew it! COWS KILL PEOPLE!

[Lüt]

boris said:

I always knew it! COWS KILL PEOPLE!

Indeed.

[Rotting Corpse]

Lüt said:

But it does!

Thats nuts.

[Naked Snake]

Thank God that they didn't kill the kid. Anyway, it is very obvious that sometimes, nutty people get ahold of a video game and take them way too seriously and absorb the game into their own reality. That's not the game's fault, that isn't even the kid's fault, because they have some kind of mental disorder.

[Rotting Corpse]

BBG said:

Thank God that they didn't kill the kid. Anyway, it is very obvious that sometimes, nutty people get ahold of a video game and take them way too seriously and absorb the game into their own reality. That's not the game's fault, that isn't even the kid's fault, because they have some kind of mental disorder.

Thats veary true. Some times the parents egnore the signs that some things wrong. Parents need to pay more attantion to there kids.

[Sephiroth]

my mother "i really dont want you playing that game" (refering to doom a doom alone
Me "so what, i am 18 and cant site down and watch porn. and u are worried about doom? come on you showed me the game and got me to play it when it came out.

mother agian "there are so many evil demons. the devils lives in that game"

me "how can you be so stupid to think the devil lives in doom? I am tired of this, nuff said"

she shut up. she hates doom because there are 'demons' in it. jesus christ it is ONLY a game. Be sides its 10 years old and u are killing demons.

i swear the human race is getting dumber

[Nanami]

Doom is 9.

And if people still think Doom is violent, they should open their eyes. Lots of other games are 1934018948239018x more violent than Doom ever was.

[NailGunner]

Sounds rather familiar, although my mom changed face when I after her first Deathmatch. After that it was clear sailing...

[DooMBoy]

*sigh*
And yet again, games are under attack because some moron(s) couldn't distinguish between game reality and normal reality. Go figure.
Oh, and cheese kills people too.

[Epyo]

Yeah man, but I'd probably do the same thing if I was a newsdude.

[Fletcher`]

Epyo said:

Yeah man, but I'd probably do the same thing if I was a newsdude.

No you wouldn't.