You know the situation, when something so stupid happens, you don’t know if you should laugh or frown. The following story will put you in a similar dilemma. Rev. Richard Patrick believes that all games are behind crimes and making criminals outof the youth, and that they should be burned.
I can imagine him standing over a heap of video games, shouting out to the dvds below,” Burn in hell, you spawn of Satan”. You know why don’t we read his own words:
We are considering having something similar to a rally where parents and children can bring CDs and video games that they consider are destructive to the mind set of our youth and have a burning, just like they had a gun buyback last year…
Young people are being influenced by what they see and what they hear. They are being influenced by television … television and videos are telling young people a vision but something that’s not reality…
[Violent media] has a tremendous influence on young people and violence. That’s basically all they see. Most of them try to emulate what they see, when in reality, the people they see don’t even live in those communities. Some of the rappers they see on TV portraying crime don’t live in the urban areas — they live in the suburbs somewhere. It’s all a facade.
I will not defend our community nor will I debate over the influence of games on young minds. My question is that were people not killing each other in the early sixties, were young people not turning to drugs before. Video games present an alternate reality, where anything is possible, but its up to you, you can take it positively or go stealing cars because Niko Bellic does it. Debates aside, this will be one expensive camp fire.
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