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Originally Posted by DamianJ
You know the very fucking stupid used to blame Judas Priest, then hip hop, then video nasties before they picked on video games as the route of evil.
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Holy shit, I agree with something you're saying...
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Originally Posted by Rochard
I do buy into this to a certain extent. Our culture over all has become a lot more violent. Playing army when I was a kid was "bang bang" where now it's Call Of Duty where you kill people by the hundreds. The movies and TV aren't any better; Growing up we had the A Team and the Dukes Of Hazard where no one ever seriously got hurt compared to life like movies today where we see thousands getting killed in a two hour sitting.
Our culture has become more violent. We've also become more sexual too, thanks in part to the Internet.
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The violent movies, music and games were always there. You just hear about and see them more now because of the technological advances of instant news/media. The problem isn't the music, movies and games. It all goes back to what I mentioned in an another thread. Our culture has become me first, and that includes parents putting their own wants and desires about their responsibility to raise their children properly. I was a teen in the early 90's. I listened to metal....black metal, death metal, etc., with some of the most violent lyrics you could imagine (google some lyrics for Cannibal Corpse or Pungent Stench), loved violent horror movies (I cared less for plot and more about the kills), and played violent video games (granted, they aren't as realistic as COD is today, but I remember running around blasting people in Die Hard Trilogy on PS1).
But, my parents taught me at an early age the difference between right and wrong, fantasy and reality, and respecting other people's property and rights. So while everyone in my high school was afraid of me (dressed in all black every day, black combat boots, long hair) and thought that I sacrificed goats to Satan (one girl actually asked me in the library if I "kill goats"), I was actually in advanced placement classes and in the top of my class. The only time I ever got sent to the principal's office was when my gym teacher took offense to my White Zombie t-shirt which read "I went to Hell and all I got was this crappy t-shirt." ("Hell" was the offensive word, and I had to move my hair out of the way for him to read it.)
Anyway, the point is, my parents put my brother and my upbringing before themselves, and made sure to teach us about life and respect. Which is why I was into all that shit and yet was a role model student. Parents, and society in general, today doesn't give a shit about doing any of that, and only care about their personal gratification. Parents use television as a babysitter, without discussing what's on that television with their kids. Same with games and movies. It's not the content of the entertainment that's the problem. It's always been there. It's the lack of discussion about it from parent/guardian to child that causes the problems.