The Truth About Violent Youth and Video Games
Duke Ferris, founder of Game Revolution, doesn’t think video games are the cause of violence in the youth of America. In fact, he thinks the media is flat-out lying to us.
Thanks to the current media frenzy and barrage of lawsuits surrounding violent video games, I can’t tell people what I do for a living without getting a lecture on the current plague of youth violence and the scourge that is Grand Theft Auto…I have absolute proof that video games are not the cause of this epidemic of youth violence in America. No, really, I do.
While his facts are sound, his interpretation of them is somewhat questionable. Instead of proving that video games don’t cause violence, he simply demonstrates that violent crimes have been in a decline over the last couple decades. Assume what you will from that, but I think it’s my fancy do* that caused the decline in violent crimes. Nevertheless, check out the thought-provoking article at GameDaily.
*No. It’s not me.
October 14th, 2005 at 2:23 pm
That is almost laughable that he believes since violence is on the decline video games cannot be causing violence. He obviously doesn’t understand logic.
The overall trend can be going downwards even if minor forces resist that urge. For all we know videogames have been slowing this decline. Not saying I personally believe that in any regard, but do we really need guys like this representing us? People who are less logical than the people they are arguing against.
Oh, and according to Freakonomics abortion has actually had the largest impact on the reduction in violent crimes (and uses statistical proof to measure it quantitatively)….