Mortal Kombat Killing

Craig321 · 21 Dec 2007 at 12:14

~J~ said:
Get ready for Jack to go on a Christmas rampage!!

http://www.ripten.com/2007/12/20/two-teens-kill-7-year-old-girl-with-supposed-mortal-kombat-moves/

Sick. But why do they always have to link horrible murders to games now?

PiKe · 21 Dec 2007 at 12:16

You don't see anyone imitating Mario Galaxy do you?

"Yahoo" "Wahhaa".

Thesnipergecko · 21 Dec 2007 at 12:35

PiKe said:
You don't see anyone imitating Mario Galaxy do you?

"Yahoo" "Wahhaa".

Nope only you

T.

NokkonWud · 21 Dec 2007 at 12:48

Craig321 said:
Sick. But why do they always have to link horrible murders to games now?

Because it's an easy target.

mcwildcard · 21 Dec 2007 at 14:36

I heard that Saddam Hussein was a big fan of Populous.

KNiVES · 21 Dec 2007 at 14:39

mcwildcard said:
I heard that Saddam Hussein was a big fan of Populous.

Wrong, but I laughed.

Flammy · 21 Dec 2007 at 16:27

No-one knows the real story of why they did it, so you are all just as guilty of assumption and conjecture as Jack Thompson is.

If it does turn out that the attack WAS influenced by violent games, then violent games are culpable. Simple as that.

KNiVES · 21 Dec 2007 at 16:38

Flammy said:
No-one knows the real story of why they did it, so you are all just as guilty of assumption and conjecture as Jack Thompson is.

If it does turn out that the attack WAS influenced by violent games, then violent games are culpable. Simple as that.

They were drunk !

Video games are never the culprit, as any murders or beatings due to percieved influence are actually a result of deep-seated problems and psychological issues, that has often been overlooked.

Anyone who even so thinks that it's possible to 'blame the games' need to start doing some proper research. No human being is that weak-willed.

Flammy · 21 Dec 2007 at 16:49

KNiVES said:
They were drunk !

Video games are never the culprit, as any murders or beatings due to percieved influence are actually a result of deep-seated problems and psychological issues, that has often been overlooked.

Anyone who even so thinks that it's possible to 'blame the games' need to start doing some proper research. No human being is that weak-willed.

So what if they were drunk? There is no evidence that video games cannot influence a person's actions, as you state. People have been influenced into killing by violent pornography (Jane Longhurst) so why can it not happen with violent games? What about the MMORPG murders in the far east?
Whether games should be banned etc as a result of occurances like this is another argument. But to suggest that immersive media like games is entirely blameless in a person's actions in this context is naive and blinkered, especially as how nobody knows the details from that brief article.