Manifest Destiny Syndrome
Just a little ditty I coined while pondering the obscured and objective, anecdotal world. As regards the devolution of our civilized world, I posit the following: What I call manifest destiny syndrome results from consumers excessive participation of one dimensional violent video games. If it is prolonged and disproportional enough to that of the multi-dimensional world, then, as in the case of the Sandy Hook shooting and other, perhaps, less notorious, sensory deprivation craves and commands hands-on practical application. The implications of violent video games are grossly underestimated. Homicides resulting from violent video games should be chronicled and accounted for within the FBIs Unified Crime Reporting. So much idle time...so little introspection. Your thoughts?
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https://fortune.com/2023/05/02/stanford-researchers-scoured-every-reputable-study-link-between-video-games-gun-violence-politics-mental-health-dupee-thvar-vasan/
It doesn't follow the main cause of homicides at all. Blaming video-games is a 'smokescreen' of the real problem here: the easy access to weapons.
You know, violent video games exist worldwide, but curiously, the shootings in schools happen on a large scale in the USA. The shootings or homicides in the USA (note: I use this country as an example because you addressed the FBI, so I guess you are American), are not mainly caused because a teenager plays Grand Theft Auto but by the habit of being surrounded by weapons.
In some parts of the world, we understand that Call of Duty is fictional, and even most of the weapons don't even exist in our countries. But it is crazy how you can purchase a Glock as well as if you buy some yogurt or beer. Can you see the problem now?
According to the point of 'violent games leading people to act violently', watching films like a clockwork orange, would do the same effect. Right?
Old news.
If anything, violent video games might provide an outlet, an occupation of otherwise idle time. Take away violent video games and idle hands my find worse things to do in our shit world.
Indeed. Which is why some also say sport is a sublimation for aggression.
Hence George Orwell's famous observation:
Video games in America are the same as everywhere else. If their implications would be grossly underestimated, then there ought to be more shootings in other countries, which don't have the mass shootings, but do have the same video games.
So, at least on that thought alone, we should consider discussing it.
Violence aside, the marketing industry is half a billion a year revenue. Why there's so much money involved in marketing and advertisement? It's because it works. People can be manipulated by images, symbols, and persuasion to act and make decisions to purchase, use, idolize, believe in a certain product or person.
Now, you might argue that "well, food choices in advertisement and marketing are not like selling violence. People are aware that food is good. And people are aware that violence is bad. So, they're not going to make a stupid decision to act out the violence they've been fed through video games". Behavioral and psychological manipulation works equally on all behaviors. Not just the good ones. Conditioning does not discriminate.
Quoting ssu
It could be the case that while violent video games are not enough on their own to cause school shootings, they do contribute to psychological and social developments which are manifested in school shootings under certain circumstances, in this case the American circumstance of a gun culture. It might be the case that violent video games are doing harm to all societies, but since those societies differ, the effects are not the same and are not equally visible everywhere.
Quoting Jamal
This is the main issue, and I guess @Steven P Clum didn't consider it. He is surprised because the FBI doesn't take into account the eventual danger of playing Grand Theft Auto, but he is (paradoxically) used to a very violent culture such as the possibility of holding and purchasing guns without control. Those video games are just a replication of real life in some parts of the USA.
Don't forget that his son is a crack-addict and a kid-toucher, and Joe Biden covers up for him. It is revealing of the family's ethics, and consequently of people who support that whole circus.
Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther was attributed to cause copycat suicides after it was published in 1774. This was a book. Film is much easier to consume by comparison.
In my experience, online PvP games are more addictive with respect to psychological highs and lows. Competitors can send mean/inciting rage bait messages, which can stoke resentment. It's possible that sometimes the resentment could trigger an event out of the blue. But it's likely other life circumstances are implicated.
Violent video games are likely the ethereal pebble that breaks the camel's back. The total amount of pebbles, contributing to the event, is what counts. Violent video games may be one pebble, or a piece of sand, among many other weighty contributors.
I can only find studies on children, young children on violent video games. How and when they act out this gaming in actuality is something I'm not sure about. But you made a great point below:
Quoting Steven P Clum
In the live sports of karate, with rules in place and guidance provided by the organizers, you are actually trained not just the actual physical contact but the rules surrounding the activity. There is something that serves as a safety gate.
Quoting Steven P Clum
Theres always more than one side to every story.
Quoting Lionino
Or perhaps it is more revealing of your susceptibility to sensationalistic news reporting, the circus youre supporting by repeating their garbage.
So, it's a two-layer claim that most guns used in crime are stolen - and it seems to be pretty much an infallible conclusion. Where else are they coming from? Are all these gang-bangers previously license holders that let it lapse and now illegally carry?
Hunter Biden is inarguably a crack addict, though?
Right, pictures of a guy smoking crack are sensationalistic news.
Quoting AmadeusD
You don't get it. It is actually the dark web AI deep fake Russian hackers from China sending fake news to Alex Jones.
But the funnier part is Hunter sending texts to Joe asking for money because he messed up again. I genuinely feel bad for Joe, despite supporting invasions of the Middle East and other unethical things, he comes across as a good dad that really loves his son, and his advanced age surely stops him from taking a strong stance about his son, a completely lost soul.
Ahhhhhhh. That wraps it all up in a neat little package.
No, impugning the ethics of a family youve never met shows your eagerness to spread the hyped up gossip spun by the media circus rather than respect the complexities of real families. Although you do redeem yourself a bit when you add that Biden Quoting Lionino
I understand that Biden chose to put himself, and thus his family, in the public spotlight, but do we the public have to leer so shamelessly? Arent you a little embarrassed babbling about a strangers crack problem? Why dont you share the skeletons in your own closet with us? Im sure wed LOVE to hear about them.
I don't need to personally meet a family to judge their attested actions, that is a ridiculous claim.
Quoting Joshs
I don't need to redeem myself when I talk about your pet politician. I see things the way they are, and I say as such.
Quoting Joshs
Oh, I didn't know I was talking to someone from the Biden family, I really grinded your gears. For one, the skeletons in my closet are not from kids I have touched.
Quoting Lionino
Are you referring to this?
No, for me that is called poisoning the swamp, as I have seen no evidence of that.
I am referring to the shirtless picture of Hunter Biden against a metal pole and a small child (looks Southeast Asian) next to him. If we are giving it the benefit of the doubt it could be a very short and young looking Malaysian escort of age; but I don't think so, especially when there are other pictures, though less concrete.