The Videogame attack

People in society have so many problems that they don’t know what to do withy them. Since they don’t want to admit that it’s there fault, so they push all their problems on one scapegoat. That scapegoat? Videogames… People believe that if a problem isn’t their fault, then they don’t have to do a thing about it. This ends up with thousands of attention hungry people starting campaigns to end all videogames. This is affecting are freedom of speech, and for reasons that have not been proven true. Studies have shown that a group of kids who played a violent videogame for an extended amount have shown no signs of increased aggressiveness. Even though we have this research, anti videogame campaigners still try to yell their complaints for the world. Issues such as, “Dead Rising has black zombies as well as white zombies, that’s racist!”, or “okemon teaches slave trading, gambling, animal fighting, etc.” “There’s too much blood!” “too much sex” “too much of anything!!!!” Then people have to automatically assume about video games. The video game BULLY was immediately assumed to be about the columbine incident, and people tried to get it banned, it was actually just about a kid going to a boarding school! Then there is the worst problem, Jack Thompson. Jack Thompson wanted attention so he took a stand on the “videogame controversy”. He is paranoid and mentally unstable, not a good mix. He sued people for “threatening” his life, such as making a flash animation of him being hit in the head. He said he would make a huge donation of money to a company if they would make a game where you killed videogame designers. They did, but Jack refused to go through with it. Two people later made the donation and gave all the credit to Jack, he attempted to sue them. Jack Thompson is a fine example of how ridiculous this videogame campaign is. If you think about it, videogames are basically just interactive books. This might lead up to a strange Fahrenheit451 universe, where video games are burned instead, and Jack Thompson would be some god…

Some videogames have inappropriate things in them, but that is why they have ratings. If a kid gets nightmares from playing M rated video games, the person at fault is the parents for letting the child play them. As one man said, “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people! Guns protect people from people with smaller guns!” So a similar saying is, “Video games don’t kill people, it just keeps them from getting extremely bored.” A plumber saving a princess from an evil turtle doesn’t cause a man to bury a girl alive, a messed up childhood does. People need to start taking responsibility for their actions, and stop causing trouble to other people or objects.

Note for Jack Thompson:
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