Researchers used fMRI brain scans to study the effects of playing violent video games on the brains of young adult men. The changes were similar to those seen in teens with destructive sociopathic disorders.
Read How playing violent video games may change the brain, on Healthland.Time.com.
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clair
“Are we growing more sociopaths with violent video games?”
Yes, absolutely. Add to that all violence in other media. We are being brain washed/conditioned and children are more influenced by & vulnerable to this glorification of violence. How about the new film “Hunger Games”: what message is that film giving?
clair
Oxy,
found this about “knock out king”:
December 2011
Punched to the ground, left bruised, brain damaged and sometimes even dead ”“ these are the vulnerable victims of an increasingly popular ‘game’.
‘Knockout King’ is the frightening phenomenon that has claimed lives across the country as teenagers and young adults seek out sick thrills.
In the planned attacks, a group will appoint a leader and then choose a defenceless victim at random.
They punch the victim to the ground, sometimes filming the attack on mobile phones.
Reports from across the country ”“ including Massachusetts, New Jersey and Chicago ”“ have identified victims as immigrants, elderly and often alone.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078484/Knockout-King-The-sickening-game-claiming-lives-country.html#ixzz1ty0VFBhI
I’m horrified/disgusted how low life, low brow, irresponsible, stupid, cruel and violent behavior is glorified in society today. The Ns & SPs seem to be taking over & becoming the norm.
Wow! Here’s a comment to the article:
My son was attacked unprovoked by a gang of four thugs “just for fun”. I will give credit to the medical staff who were wonderful. He required five total surgeries and much therapy. Even though we had witnesses and were able to identity them, we could not get the police to do anything until I got a senator involved. By then they had attacked and almost killed two others. I had insurance and even after it paid and victim’s assistance paid I still had to take a second mortgage on my home for almost $38K. Living in the USA is a joke – the American Dream is nothing but a nightmare.
Ox Drover
Well, look at the NFL “heroes” like Michael Vick and others who are involved in violent acts on and off the field of play, and glorified. I saw one guy the other day who had I can’t remember how many kids by 6 or 8 women!!! WTF? He even had a couple by his WIFE.
I’d heard about that “knock out king” stuff and it makes my stomach churn to even read about it. How about those 2 kids that pushed the shopping cart over the balcony in a mall and hit that woman and brain damaged her? I could go on but why bother, you got the idea…. sheesh!
skylar
Clair,
here is an article and video that might give you a perspective on the hunger games.
http://moralmindfield.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/human-sacrifice-your-new-name-is-reality-tv-christianity-rene-girard-and-the-hunger-games/
darwinsmom
Interesting article… though the “with atheists it will grow worse” opinion is one I disagree with, since scapegoating and sacrifice has always been present and performed for various reasons.
As for violence… for the moment homophobic violence is the topic in Belgium. A gay guy in his 30s was found dead after being missing for several days. He got a ride from 4 guys. These guys had first wanted to give a ride to a girl; she turned it down. The now-dead victim didn’t turn it down. They claim “he made advances to them” and that’s the “reason” why they “lost it” and started to kick him. When I heard that on the new I thought… “They’re lying!” One guy coming on to 4 other guys? Nope, not without having been led on at first. And besides, even if he had flirted with them, that’s still no reason to beat him to death. They were 4, he was by himself. But it’s typical “blame the victim” reasoning of a spath. Several of these guys were already known to the police for being violent. So, seems to me they were cruising for trouble the four of them and looking for a victim. If the girl had taken the ride, she most probably would have been gang-raped, possibly beaten into the hospital if not killed as well.
G1S
The other day, my son told me about a video game where you get to hunt down psychopaths in a mall.
I asked him how did the player know that they were psychopaths?
Here’s what he told me:
The name of the game is Dead Rising. The game is about a zombie outbreak and you’re stuck in a mall as a reporter.
You must survive 72 hours and you are free to use anything in the mall as a weapon.
A side mission is to find and defeat all the psychopaths in a mall. He thinks there are about 20. He found 5.
You know that they’re psychopaths because they act sick, disturbed, and twisted (plus that’s how the game describes them.)
Psychopaths aren’t zombies. They’re humans.
One is a mall cop. She handcuffed survivors to displays (I guess that means the zombies can get them) and keeps talking about that they must pay for what they did.
Ox Drover
What an uplifting and educational game for children to play!
skylar
But that’s not how psychopaths act. They are charming and pitiful. 😥
See, this game should be banned for being misleading. It does a disservice to children everywhere.
kim frederick
Skylar, agreed.
G1S
It’s the Hollywood and entertainment industry stereotype that we’re up against.