UKTerrorist
Posted by Blitz at 13:13 2/8/2001.
Recently a security guard in an abortion clinic was shot and killed in Melbourne, Australia. Sad news, but nothing to do with a computer game, is it?This article, by the Herald Sun (Australia), says different. The article, entitled 'Computer Killings Under Fire', states that this kind of game can 'encourage the wrong sort of behaviour', by which I presume they basically mean encourage people to go out and act violently or even kill:
"Another add-on version of the violent and bloodthirsty game, Half Life: Blue Shift, was released in Australia only two weeks before the shooting murder of security guard and father-of-seven Steven Rogers at a Melbourne abortion clinic."
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In my honest opinion, I think some people get far too carried away with the idea that computer games can have such a big effect on people's tendencies to act violently. I'm sure most of us played games as we grew up, and most of them tended to be shooting games, yet that hasn't encouraged me or anyone I know to act violently....it's a game! These kind of things happened before computer games existed and they'd continue to happen if we didn't have any games.
I suppose they need someone/something to blame - takes the pressure off them a little.
