Originally posted by Kailieann

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Which probably makes him even more of an idiot.

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• "The Left Sides of Gamers' Brains Are Disabled as the Harvard, Indiana, and Michigan State University studies prove. You all ought to be more concerned about that. Duh."
  
• "Nope. Wrong. The danger here is interactive violence. If you hadn't noticed, all the studies, including the one below that has just come out today, show a direct link between pop culture and sociopathic behaviors."
  
• "As long as the brain scan studies at Harvard and the massive findings by the American Psychological Association are sitting there as an irrefutable proof, scientifically, of what the video game industry can't rebut: That what you dump into your brain has behavioral consequences. This has been known for only, oh, 3000 years."
  
• "RECENT STUDIES SHOW TEEN VIOLENCE IS UP, NOT DOWN, AND THE CULTURAL CESSPOOL IN WHICH YOU ARE SWIMMING IS A BIG REASON WHY." (Sorry for the caps, that's how he typed it)
  
• "I'll write a check for $10,000 to the favorite charity of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc's chairman, Paul Eibeler ... if any video game company will create, manufacture, distribute, and sell a video game in 2006 like the following:" [insert the remainder of Jack Thompson's "Modest Proposal" here]
  
• "Sims 2, the latest version of the Sims video game franchise ... contains, according to video game news sites, full frontal nudity, including nipples, penises, labia, and pubic hair."
  
• "The Bible doesn't promote killing innocent people, Grand Theft Auto does. Islam does. Islam promotes the killing of innocent people. The Quran requires the infidel, whether Jew or Christian, to be killed. ... That's a core essence of the religion. ... Muhammad was a pirate who killed infidels and who advocated the killing of infidels. Not a nice guy. Osama bin Laden is in keeping with his fine tradition."
  
• "Gamers are considered by normal people to be cretins."
  
• "What the Japanese are doing to our kids is insensitive and racist. The Japanese have for a very long time dumped pornography into this country in a fashion they would not tolerate in their own country. It is another version of Pearl Harbor."
  
• "Sony has led the planet in the distribution of mainstream porn."
  
• "You're a gamer. You can't think for yourself."
  
• "As to the First Amendment, what the video game industry knows about that could be placed into a thimble with room left over for Doug Lowenstein's ego."
  
• "We don’t need to play the game; it’s irrelevant to the subject."
  
• "You all are the new book burners. Heil PS2! Heil Halo! Heil GTA!"
  
• "Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you're a hit man or a video gamer."
  

I tend to believe violent crimes don't happen because they're in video games, music and movies, they're in video games, music and movies because they happen. People tend to be violent, right back to our chimp ancesters (or if you prefer, when Cain killed Able), and if anything video games more likely act as an outlet for aggression rather than a source.

I think its going a bit far, though, to say that young children won't ever try to emulate what they see in a game or a movie, but this isn't really a reason for censorship, just better parenting.

Originally posted by Rom Manic

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I agree, that would be impinging on peoples freedom a little bit. But there is something the ESRB should be doing to control the amount of violence in video games, because kids DO end up playing them. Parents see Grand Theft Auto, some laugh at the name, some take it seriously.

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Originally posted by Rom Manic

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Well, some people feel censorship is necessary because there are instances where the parenting fails and kids will end up seeing this kind of violence at an age when they shouldn't really even be considering this. I don't advocate that it comes into real life through these video games, not on such a major scale, because there is enough influence from street culture that works its way in somehow.

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Originally posted by Jomb

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honestly, I've never heard of Jack Thompson. He must not be that loud if I cant hear him

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Originally posted by Jack Thompson

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That pixelantes are so self-deluded that they think a term that points out their practice of targeting those with whom they disagree for death threats, obscene e-mails, and the like is somehow a badge of honors.

Kind of like Nazis and Talibanis saying "Hey, look at me. I've got my Adolf Hitler underwear on!" Or "Hey, I've got my Talibani jockstrap on in this Afghan rape room."

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