violent games
many of the top video games are first person shooters. ie you run around picking up bigger and bigger guns. and shooting hordes of bad guys. ie enemy soldiers, aliens, zombies, monsters, deer, etc. there's a line of argument that this desensitizes people to violence. and hence makes them more likely to commit violence in real life. there's an opposing line of debate that says people don't commit real violence because they can vent their frustrations in the virtual world. it's also safer to waste virtual drug dealers where you have infinite lives. as opposed to fucking with the real drug dealer on the real street corner with a real gun and real bullets. where you have only one life. being in the game business, i'm very happy to give violent people violent games. cause their experience with "shooting" a "gun" is limited to clicking a mouse or mashing a controller button. and if they ever find themselves holding a real gun they won't know what to do with it. and are likely to be more of a danger to themselves than to me.