vidio game dame bramage

I think that this is a free country and everybody has the right to buy what ever they want. If kids decide to buy violent games, its not our fault or the makers fault. Just like some rap albums, it tells you that the album contains explicit lyrics, but still kids buy it. It shouldnt exactly be the parents fault, but they have to check on what their kids are buying some times. We can not blame the makers or the video games, because some of the kids that play vilent games, are old enough to know right from wrong. The game even tells you the rating of the game, like Rated M for MATURE. Rated E for Everybody, so you should know what you are buying, and should take it as playing it for what it is, a video game, not something you should go around doing. If they should do something about, it would be for them to watch the age level that they sell the games to, which i am sure they probably do already.

But back to tedob1's original thought; concern about the operation of the human brain on a cellular level.
We might compare that problem logically to the general law of survival throughout the animal kingdom: This concept demands that to ensure the survival of the species the strongest must survive at the sad expense of the weaker. For instance, it is obvious that when a predator is stalking a herd of gazelle, it will be the weakest and slowest of the herd that cannot keep up and is therefore sacrificed to the good of the herd, as well as to the nourishment of the predator and the continuation of his species. The same concept holds true, of course, with other examples, wildebeast, zebra, giraffe, fish, birds....
In much the same way, it has been discovered alcohol and sleep deprivation, which may accompany the playing of violent screen-games, destroys brain cells in the human specie. Of course, in accordance with the universal law of survival, it is the slowest and least prepared cells which are sacrificed first, for the overall good of the whole.
That is why you always feel so much smarter, after a few beers.....

SodaMoca5, you posted very good information and I agree on a lot of things in there. I also think that studies like this are very biased and a vast majority of them are a combination of daisy-chaining the tragic events of something like Columbine with a direct connection of video game violence as well as the media. Those two guys did not kill those people because they played Quake. I don't even care if they had maps made in similarity to their high school. Anyone with with the map maker can make anything they want. What bothers me is that after the facts were out and several students who were on the same bowling team said they would do the zieg heil after every strike they threw. THAT bothers me. It bothers me that their parents didn't even know they were building bombs in the GARAGE of all places and that they both drove BMWs (or some other expensive car) that was GIVEN to them by their rich parents. Bad parenting, no guidance, poor reception, school didn't help at all, nobody paid attention, etc etc. It's a failure in the system and their parents failed at the biggest task a parent has, and that's to raise their own to be an upstanding citizen through nuturing care, guidance, discipline, and other usual parenting techniques and NOT through the 'give them everything they want, throw cash at them, and hope for the best' method.

So what's all that for? Stop pointing fingers at the video game market. Look more at what they watch on TV, movies, as well as interaction with society. Stop coming out with these biased lame-@$$ "studies" that only try to prove one point one way. Do, however, keep going with studies that actually benefit the society you're trying to reach. Educate the people you're trying to get the attention of. My parents are the absolute worst as far as knowing exactly what goes on in the computer gaming area. My mom thinks the games are all bad influences and doesn't have so much as a sand dune to pitch a tent when I say "So what about violent movies? What about violent books? What about peer pressure at school which affects them EVERY day?". The problem with a lot of parents is that they try to shield from something they don't know or have very little information on and that's just plain hypocritical.

Bah, I drifted off subject twice! Anyways, if the people running these studies did them right to show both the pros and the cons, it'd be ok but I'm tired of watching these come out saying that video games are bad (!!!) and here's a million reasons why in our latest study (!!!).