Why does everyone blame gaming for everything.

[paecmaker]

Everytime something bad happens gaming is pretty much always blamed for. Last time it happened was yesterday, a football supporter was killed by hooligans and it went big in media. One of the reporters blamed video games, "it was probably inspired by video game violence where you kill and stab people all the time". Hasn't people come further than to blame whatever on things they dont understand?

[EpsilonX]

Everytime something bad happens gaming is pretty much always blamed for. Last time it happened was yesterday, a football supporter was killed by hooligans and it went big in media. One of the reporters blamed video games, "it was probably inspired by video game violence where you kill and stab people all the time". Hasn't people come further than to blame whatever on things they dont understand?

Nobody can handle the fact that some people are just messed up or that parents did a poor job raising their kids, so they use video games as a scapegoat.

[LiNuX]

They blame tv too.

Half a century ago, cartoons were pretty violent, with Bugs Bunny shooting Elmer Fudd with blood and whatnot. Nowadays, cartoons can't have that, and games that are Rated-M with a bit of violence gets most of the game.

I always found video games a great way to take out frustration, so you don't act them out in real life. If anything, more people need to play these games and blow off steam.

[ROFLBRYCE]

The big thing is ignorance. It goes with what Eps said about not blaming the actual problems. The parents, or mental issues.

There's a reason there are ratings on games, but parents donttcare until their kid does something negative because of it. Even then, its not their fault they bought the game. Its that the game existed in the first place.

Doesn't make sense. The number of people that waved me off when Id warn them about GTA5 for their 8-11 year old was astounding. Then an hour later when they'd come in screaming nudity and profanity all Id say is "Well I told you that, sorry."

[Ziek88]

I pretty much agree with everyone else. This problem isn't just related to video games though. Anytime anything happens anywhere is always someone elses fault. I can't speak for other countries but it's a major problem in the US. It's too easy to blame something else rather than say "man, I messed up. This is my fault now I should fix it." Nobody is held accountable for their actions in the US. I know a bunch of people who don't have jobs right now who constantly complain about the job market and how it's the government's fault. Sure, job markets tough. It's not easy to get a good job these days. That said, if you are making those complaints while collecting a check each week from the government and I ask you where you have applied and the answer is nowhere then the blame rests on you.

Children learn from their environment. Teach them that there are no consequences and they will live like that.

[Mizel]

I pretty much as well agree with what everyone has said so far. I'm not sure how, but we've gotten to this point as a society where it's considered acceptable to throw blame wherever. It quite honestly depresses and scares the crap out of me. When you look at the big picture you start to realize just how many people in this world are gullible idiots. The scary part? It's most of them. When a kid shoots up a school, all it takes is one of those gullible idiots to cry out video game violence as the reason and the rest just follow blindly. It's so bad that we literally have entire countries blindly following and buying into this garbage. While the few remaining people that actually have common sense and the ability to think and reason, desperately try to explain with no avail that underlying things (like mental illnesses or in some cases environment) are the root cause.

Perhaps things will get better over time, but I don't think so. It's obviously not generational because the same thing has been happening forever. Before video games it was rock music, before rock music it was alcohol. People will always find something else to blame.

[Ziek88]

There is a reason this is the most terrifying comedy I've ever seen.

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I watch it in the school districts constantly. It is by far the most evident example of future generations being taught that it's not their fault and that consequences don't exist for their actions. Somewhere over the years it stopped being "son/daughter, why are you failing this class" and became "teacher, how dare you fail my son/dauther, they deserve an A". The most unfortunate thing is that line of thinking has been backed by lawmakers and enforces. Schools in my area have stopped failing students for fear of lawsuits that they often lose. Furthermore if they don't maintain a certain pass rate, the state cuts funding to that school drastically. Can't imagine why each passing generation is incapable of accepting it's own faults. Honestly, I'd almost vote for a politician at this point who had made a bunch of mistakes but openly admitted them.

[paecmaker]

It also makes me scared, what will we blame on when we get old 0.o

[LorenceKing]

It's just basic ignorance from the older generation. You don't tend to hear this sort of thing from anyone under the age of 35. If people don't understand something, they see the worst possible interpretation of it.
If you look at the actual evidence on a large scale, the rise of video games as a medium (e.g 1980-present) has actually coincided with a huge drop in violent crime in the western world.

[LiNuX]

It's just basic ignorance from the older generation. You don't tend to hear this sort of thing from anyone under the age of 35. If people don't understand something, they see the worst possible interpretation of it.
If you look at the actual evidence on a large scale, the rise of video games as a medium (e.g 1980-present) has actually coincided with a huge drop in violent crime in the western world.

That's because I think people use Video games to focus their frustrations, I know it helps me when I'm feeling peeved. Just one of the theories I happen to agree with.

[gamer2231]

It's easy because everyone plays some sort of game.

[SanctionAngel]

I remember when the ESRB rating thing started... Mortal Kombat.. ever since then though video games have been the blame for most "kids'" acts of violence. But I agree with ~


I always found video games a great way to take out frustration, so you don't act them out in real life. If anything, more people need to play these games and blow off steam.

Games have always been a sort of outlet for me, but not only an outlet it made and broke my friendships (Odd Job anyone? Golden Gun anyone? Hell even Pokemon Stadium). And not once did me or my friends try to stab people in the face and rip out their spines. All though we did play Star Wars but we didn't go around killing people. And when we evolved into Playstations and Xboxes we got Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas we didn't run around stealing stealing cars and killing old ladies with bikes. Games, for most people, don't affect the brain into committing crimes. Like ROFLBRYCE said ~


The big thing is ignorance. It goes with what Eps said about not blaming the actual problems. The parents, or mental issues.

There's a reason there are ratings on games, but parents donttcare until their kid does something negative because of it. Even then, its not their fault they bought the game. Its that the game existed in the first place.

Doesn't make sense. The number of people that waved me off when Id warn them about GTA5 for their 8-11 year old was astounding. Then an hour later when they'd come in screaming nudity and profanity all Id say is "Well I told you that, sorry."

I mean games COULD affect the younger mind and they shouldn't be allowed to play GTA at all. I mean it was different in the 90's early 00's when not a single crap was given (essentially). Times have changed to say the least. Kids now have acess to more graphic substances than we did. I think people actually buy games for their youngins because they were able to play them when they were young? Depending on the age of the parent. I know for a fact that I ain't going to let my kid play GTA or CoD until they get into high school, once they get a more mature mind set. where they are still learning right from wrong but know enough of it that they can make their own choice. Not for a 5-12 year old where their minds are easily manipulated due to multi-media.

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