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June 20th, 2008 @ 13:31
Newly elected London mayor Boris Johnson has claimed that violent games are partly to blame for people stabbing each other.
“We must show young people that knives are not cool, and for that we need positive role models,” he said, writing in thelondonpaper.
“I want to counteract the damaging influences drug-addled celebrities and violent video games and the lure of the life in the gang by providing opportunities.”
Boris: you’re a moron. Shut up.
Thanks, MCV.
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June 20th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Imagine what Boris would be like if he was on drugs!
June 20th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
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June 20th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
dear god not another one
June 20th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Those tags are amazing
June 20th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
“violent games are partly to blame”
see what he said there ? “partly”..not “fully”.
I think he has a point and simply dismissing this out of hand doesn’t help the problem.
It’s like a few years ago when people said rap had nothing to do with youth violence…I beg to differ. The connection is obvious. It doesn’t mean that you listen to rap and it makes you go and kill someone but a lot of kids are influenced by these things.
June 20th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
@ CastellanSpandrell
I fully agree!
Simply dismissing any relationship between real-world violence and violent video-games is as stupid as putting ALL the blame on games.
June 20th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
The way to stop violent videogames influencing youth, though, is to regulate, not to blame. Why are children playing violent videogames in the first place? They’re made for adults.
June 20th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Because parents are idiots and think they know best when it comes to there children. If they were responsible parents though they would notice the rating system and as such not let there children play these types of games in the first place.
Edit: the retailer is also to blame its there responsibility to make sure these games are only going to be played by adults.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Yes. The retailer should follow the parents home and make sure they don’t give the adult game to their children.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
The only thing the retailer is obliged to do is to not sell them to children. I fail to see why they should take the blame for ignorant, unobservant parents.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
@kasai
Quote: “Because parents are idiots and think they know best when it comes to there children. If they were responsible parents though they would notice the rating system and as such not let there children play these types of games in the first place.”
I don’t know how old you are, but let me tell you this:
I’m what some would call a hardcore (silver)-gamer and I have a 15 years old step-son.
You may have NO idea how fucking hard it is to convince a 15 year old boy to NOT play GTA4 while almost all his friends at school and online (XBL) are playing the game …
I’ve succeeded so far, but this is not as easy as you might think.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
The argument is total rubbish. People will stabbing and killing each other long before games were around, and long before violent music and movies were around.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
“People will stabbing and killing each other long before games were around, and long before violent music and movies were around.”
Yes they were but as mentioned previously some people will be encouraged to do the same after exposure to music, games, films etc. No one is saying that the blame for crime lies solely on these causes.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Games are just a soft target, in my opinion. Some of them are violent, they’re seen in many circles as being “for kids”, ergo, violent games makes kids violent.
June 20th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
@Quiiick:
Its good that you are trying a lot more people should be like you. Considering though your son’s friends are playing this game just shows parents are not willing to keep these games out of there under-age son’s or daughters hands
@Truk:
Of course its not your job to follow them home but if I had a job as retailer I would ask the customer if they are the ones going to play it. But I would also point out the age rating and content of the game. I would probably get a lot of hassle for that but parents really seem to not notice the 18 certificate that’s sitting on that game when they hand it to little billy of 12.