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If I only had a Brain!
I was at the YMCA last night and as I was doing some on a
treadmill I happened to see a interview on the news about Video games
which contain violence. These games included fight scenes where you
could either chop the opponent to pieces with a sickle or beat them
to death with a club or a shovel. The reporters were asking a doctor
if he thought that young adults and young kids, who get there hands
on the games illegally, would actually act out these scenes if they
were faced with similar circumstances in real life. Well hello I'm no
doctor or genius but I know from my own experience as a kid and an
adult that we always want to emulate the tough guy heroes we see on
tv or in these games and I often imagined if I got into a real fight
I would do the same things to my opponent that I did to him in the
game. If you can sit there and commit those acts of violence in a
game over and over to the point you become desensitized and it has no
affect on your conscience than you will have no problem doing it in
real life. Maybe we all need to go to the wizard of OZ and ask for
some more brains.
Posted by:
Laurin Seaman
posted by The Phoenix Files at
5:32 PM
4 Comments:
to Miss Seaman "the brainless one" this is A response to her problem with video games: When we were kids we watched zorro and lone ranger and batman etc. but we never went out and shot or stabbed anyone just because we saw it on Tv. I think todays kids are smart enough to know the difference between wrong and right and games and real life. Sharon
That's actually Mr. Seaman, for the record.
No, it's really Ms. Seaman!
I can remember when I was a kid - a loooong time ago. There was no tv - just radio - but there were a lot of good programs: Mr. District Attorney; The Shadow; I Love a Mystery; Jack Armstrong; Buck Rogers; and many more.
We saw a lot of violence in the movies - but I never shot anyone either. In fact, I was a member of the rifle club in High School and we carried our rifles to school and put them in our lockers until the club meeting at the rifle range across the street took place immediately after classes. I don't remember anyone shooting up a classroom.
And drugs - only saw the Chinese opium dens in the saturday afternoon movies. Didn't use them and didn't know any one that did. Speed? That's what you did with your dad's car since most of us didn't own one until we were out of school and working for a living.
Life was so much simpler then.
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