[AGL] X-box?

[Igor Loving]

Read the American way of Killing and how video games create a Pavlovian mind 
set in youngsters so they become more efficient killers.



Charlie Loving




>From: Frances Morey <frances_morey at yahoo.com>
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>Jon,
>   You wrote "...not all video games encourage ultra-violent behavior."
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>   But such behavior is the universal theme of most all of them. They may 
>not "encourage" violent behavior but they set up the brain pathways for it 
>to come easier. It's as though addiction is to that which gives pleasure, 
>drugs, alcohol, sex, porn, food and, alas, video games. Whatever is 
>pleasureable and overdone describes an addiction.
>   When people rail against addiction I often wonder if it is the pleasure 
>or the fact that the complainer doesn't enjoy any. On the other hand they 
>may get their pleasure depriving others of it. Their addiction is harping 
>on others who seem to experience pleasure.
>   My thinking is getting convoluted, I'm going to bed. Big day tomorrow.
>   Happy Thanksgivign,
>   Frances
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>Jon Ford <jonmfordster at hotmail.com> wrote:
>   Granted, video games improve eye-hand co-ordination, one benefit, 
>perhaps
>the only one. But why do they all involve targeting and elliminating
>whatever moves within range? I'm sorry but I think these games teach how
>facile it is to operate a trigger and destroy others, quick easy and 
>simply,
>with no need to hire a crime scene cleanup crew. This rash of school
>shootings is about more than the availability of guns, the absense of
>parents in the homes and a careless society. It goes to means, rather than
>motivation or opportunity. It cuts into the socialization and the physical
>activities that young individuals need to develop optimally, wholesomely.
>I'm glad my sons got bored with it early on.
>Frances
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>Frances-- I agree with you about the problems with physical and even
>spiritual development that are at risk for gamer "addicts"-- on the other
>hand, the key is all things in moderation. The media encourage various 
>types
>of addictive behavior-- you could say the same thing about too much 
>internet
>gambling, too much TV, too much beer drinking and too much football! Read
>Gee's book for information on the positive side of moderate gaming. Also,
>not all video games encourage ultra-violent behavior.
>
>Jon
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