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Started by Tank, February 05, 2012, 04:41:08 PM

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Crow

Quote from: Sweetdeath on February 26, 2012, 08:46:47 PM
People who tend to live sheltered, isolated, and anti-social lives have unstable minds.
If you grow up in an unloving place, playing COD and Gears of war, halo, etc, who says you can handle real confrontation irl?

Say you replaced Call of Duty, Gears of War, and Halo with Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, and Disgaea wouldn't the same thing still apply? If those people are mentally unstable in an unloving environment wouldn't any form of escapist activity have a detrimental effect?

I disagree with the remark about men who degrade women being directly linked as a cause with porn and mens magazines as it's usually caused by childhood home life, peers, and/or life experience that has helped them form that opinion. Lets just change men who degrade women to women who degrade men, does porn and womens magazines cause that opinion to form, I don't think so. Maybe those forms of media help to perpetuate the matter in the individuals head but its far from the cause.
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Quote from: Sweetdeath on February 26, 2012, 08:46:47 PM
People who tend to live sheltered, isolated, and anti-social lives have unstable minds.
If you grow up in an unloving place, playing COD and Gears of war, halo, etc, who says you can handle real confrontation irl?


Men who degrade women tend to be men whom have had no real interaction with women. They recall fantasies such as porn and men's magazines that dont portray females as anything but sometging to be used.
I dont mean all men of course, and every case is different. I read watch smut as well, but I also interact with people on a daily basis.
People who live those lives usually didn't have a choice in the matter. Those people are usually either home schooled from an early age by over-protective parents or bullied heavily by their peers, so they try to avoid social situations and their only escape is a fictitious reality.

I agree with crow here.
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Xiilent

Quote from: Crow on February 27, 2012, 01:20:55 PM

Say you replaced Call of Duty, Gears of War, and Halo with Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, and Disgaea wouldn't the same thing still apply? If those people are mentally unstable in an unloving environment wouldn't any form of escapist activity have a detrimental effect?


This idea is situational. Penn and Teller did an episode on their show "BS" about whether or not video games affect a child's outlook on life and violence and they seemed to find that they don't. Whether or not they really did enough research is debatable, but it holds a little bit of water. Mental stability isn't necessarily affected by a video game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWr4htYp9dM that is the first video of the 3 part series if you'd care to take the 30 minutes to watch all 3 parts.

ThinkAnarchy

Quote from: xXxWashburnxXx on February 27, 2012, 04:49:47 PM
Quote from: Sweetdeath on February 26, 2012, 08:46:47 PM
People who tend to live sheltered, isolated, and anti-social lives have unstable minds.
If you grow up in an unloving place, playing COD and Gears of war, halo, etc, who says you can handle real confrontation irl?


Men who degrade women tend to be men whom have had no real interaction with women. They recall fantasies such as porn and men's magazines that dont portray females as anything but sometging to be used.
I dont mean all men of course, and every case is different. I read watch smut as well, but I also interact with people on a daily basis.
People who live those lives usually didn't have a choice in the matter. Those people are usually either home schooled from an early age by over-protective parents or bullied heavily by their peers, so they try to avoid social situations and their only escape is a fictitious reality.

I agree with crow here.

Actually, home schoolers are no less socially awkward, nor do they try and avoid social situations than there public/private school counterparts. As for bullying, I'm not sure, but I'm sure it results in many children shying away from social interactions for obvious reasons.

"He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed." -Ben Franklin

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