The immorality of video games

Perhaps my title is misleading. Perhaps I can't think of a better one since it's 11 PM. Perhaps I want to mislead you. Perhaps no one is reading so I'm pondering this to myself, but I will continue nonetheless to give it to the many people on my MSN list.

Now, what is my point? People have had a long history of blaming things for ruining the youth. In history, when it was invented, music poetry and etc. That could've ruined them. Moving up more recently as to the 1960's, it could've been comic books. Well, now the baby boom read plenty of comic books. Now most of them are in their fifties, and are they rampaging murderers? No. Hell, they even filed a decency act for them.

Before that, rock music. Now, where does this fit in? Video games are just the new iteration. Why? Because much like some rock music and comic books, it has things that could be deemed "offensive". Generally, there are just people who think us children should be bubble wrapped and protected from the world. But, in the end what does that do? Just makes us squirm for it more. In my opinion, in a perfect world noone would complain about violent video games and they'd just become the norm and sit. Not the most popular, but definetely a genre.

I honestly think there is no such thing as FPSes ruining someone. If you want to ruin them, give them drugs. Some people would call video games the opiate of the masses, but it is certainly not a drug. It hardly does any harm unless your one of those people who so desperately needs evidence that they are that you publish reports and go around and hunt down every little wrong and offensive thing then gathers people and forces them to play it just so you can say "HERE THEY ARE THE EVILS NOW!" and then count this with the fact the columbine kids *may* have been inspired by doom.

But this isn't the first case, even something as rudimentary as space invaders was to be called as an evil. As more advanced games come along, and it still doesn't make people blend with reality, it's hard to say that video games harm anyone.

Unless your one of those stuck up mothers who worries about such things.

Adieu,
Dr. Random