Jack Thompson blames video-games for VA-Tech Shooting

[Cure]

Wow. (http://madfinn.paananen.fi/2007/04/16/jack-thompson-blames-video-games-for-virginia-tech-shooting/)

They don't even know who did it yet......

[Roseangelo]

Load of crap, obviously, but not surprising.

However, your link doesn't actually quote anything Thompson said - is there a place to read some quotes?

[Mr. Snackpants]

That's rediculous. I agree, why would Fox News even put that $hit on the air? Are they that stupid? Wow, just wow.

[Kunoichi_Haruko]

Jack Thompson=douchebag. Moving on...

[Cure]

Load of crap, obviously, but not surprising.

However, your link doesn't actually quote anything Thompson said - is there a place to read some quotes?

It was on TV, so I'm not sure.........

[Jamboree]

It's a waste of time listening to this fool. Normally I try to be impartial to these things and opinions but almost makes himself look dumb constantly find video games as the cause of all wrong doing in society. Makes me sick.

[ThirdMarioBro]

You know, I was counting the hours until he showed up to capitalize off the death of those people. I'm surprised it took this long.

And it's Fox News, home of Rupert Murdoch's paid conservative propaganda. what do you expect?

[愛]

I personally blame FPS Doug. Counter-Strike did this. IT HAS TO BE! AMIRITE?!

[Masked Ninja]

...I was actually wondering how long it would take for someone to start the OHNOEZ VIDEO GAMES thing... :roll:

[That Matt Guy]

What do you expect? There always has to be some kind of moral panic after a tragedy like this. Video games? Why stop there! Let's go after heavy metal and rap music, comic books, horror movies, and pornography while we're at it.

[Toonami Tom]

It disgusts me that Jack would blame video games for the horrible rampage at VT College. Jack's a moron.

I'm just waiting for someone to try and blame it on Don Imus for calling people (not going to type what he said here).:roll:

[Voltron]

I just think it's disgusting that he'd see this as an opportunity to further his personal campaign against the video game industry. If he had any sense of decency, he would have spoken up after this cooled down, not capitalize on the shock and panic of it all.

What a monster.

[Mecha Cow]

Of course he does.

[ThirdMarioBro]

What do you expect? There always has to be some kind of moral panic after a tragedy like this. Video games? Why stop there! Let's go after heavy metal and rap music, comic books, horror movies, and pornography while we're at it.

NOOOOO, not the porn! Anything but the porno!

[bullet]

hasn't the world gotten enough of this moron? sheesh.

[Cure]

OK, it's been Youtube'd. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weG7A4lTGtg&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egonintendo%2Ecom%2F)

[Brodie]

Well, atleast he has a firm basis for his arguement.

[Spitfire]

I blame a lack of video games. People who play Gears Of War are less likely to pick up a gun and blast people.

Like a guy who has sex regularly is less likely to rape a women. If you get human instinct and emotion out of your system your less likely to lash out. This guy probably didn't play games at all. Then again some people are just plain psychopaths .

[bullet]

Like a guy who has sex regularly is less likely to rape a women.

wha? where'd you get that from?

[Spitfire]

wha? where'd you get that from?

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=catharsis

3. Psychiatry.
a. psychotherapy that encourages or permits the discharge of pent-up, socially unacceptable affects.
b. discharge of pent-up emotions so as to result in the alleviation of symptoms or the permanent relief of the condition.

Basically get it out in some form*Sometimes even art* and you will be less likely to be violent and so on and so fourth.

[bullet]

less likely...but statistically rapers aren't made up of people who are sex-deprived.

it's usually due to negative reinforcement one way or another...insecurities that need to be purged from their conscience, inability to socialize with the opposite (or same) sex, anger and frustration at failed relationships etc. there's also...:P...self-relief so sex-deprivation wouldn't normally be enough of a physical issue to spur psychological impulses to rape someone.

[愛]

Where are you even getting this information, bullet? Spitfire provided actual proof, and you're saying things without any base. It's been psychologically proven that the more you get sex, the less you are going to go out and rape someone.

[bullet]

Where are you even getting this information, bullet? Spitfire provided actual proof, and you're saying things without any base. It's been psychologically proven that the more you get sex, the less you are going to go out and rape someone.

i'm getting this information from my brain. no seriously. i'm a psyc major, afterall. i've taken several courses on human behavior and am currently taking a course on criminal psychology. catharsis isn't a therapy designated for rapists, so i don't see how that's actual proof. it's not statistics or anything relevant to the crime of rape itself, it's just the bare definitions of a specific type of psychotherapy.

you could argue either way. for example, i can say that having sex with women gives pleasure and therefore produces positive reinforcement. therefore, men who have more sex are more likely to go out and find more ways to derive similar pleasures and therefore result in raping others. but that's not even the main point, because the act of rape isn't spurred by a too much sex or deprivation of sex, it's due more to an inability to get a partner to consent to having sex with you. if that makes any sense.

[愛]

Sure, if you want. I don't like discussing reasons behind murder, especially when they compare it to video games. I play Counter-Strike every day, and I'm stable....I think. Anyway, I'd never take a life. It's a video game, and nothing else. Just playing to win.

....and get them headshots.

[Spitfire]

i'm getting this information from my brain. no seriously. i'm a psyc major, afterall. i've taken several courses on human behavior and am currently taking a course on criminal psychology. catharsis isn't a therapy designated for rapists, so i don't see how that's actual proof. it's not statistics or anything relevant to the crime of rape itself, it's just the bare definitions of a specific type of psychotherapy.

you could argue either way. for example, i can say that having sex with women gives pleasure and therefore produces positive reinforcement. therefore, men who have more sex are more likely to go out and find more ways to derive similar pleasures and therefore result in raping others. but that's not even the main point, because the act of rape isn't spurred by a too much sex or deprivation of sex, it's due more to an inability to get a partner to consent to having sex with you. if that makes any sense.

No your right it's not a cure but catharsis theory, in theory of course, applies to things such as rapes, murders, and violence in general. maybe I used a bad example but you know what I'm getting at.

[bullet]

yeah i figured you were originally using it as satire to thompson blaming games for murder.

i meant the dude's too extreme. while it's true that violence in video games would probably inspire violent thoughts in youth, it's not exactly the game industry's fault that parents are letting their 10-yearolds play GTA. it's more of a parental issue than anything else. violence is everywhere and has always been everywhere...its nothing recent.

[Peanut]

I think it's safe to assume that Ai would rape someone before I would, and Doom would do it before any of us. Case dismissed.

[Mecha Cow]

Um, rape usually isn't about sexual gratification. That being said Spitfire's argument is a valid one. I think we can all agree that Jack Thompson is a pathetic loser with no respect for anything.

[愛]

I think it's safe to assume that Ai would rape someone before I would, and Doom would do it before any of us. Case dismissed.

Dang. You got me.

[Peanut]

So, has anyone seen the interview he had on MSNBC? It's great that the interviewer was totally taking him to task for making sh*t up. Even better, JT totally made himself look like an ass with a single statement. According to him, violent videogames make kids go nuts, then he states that 80% of male college students are playing these violent games, so then why aren't more than .1% of these kids going on insane killing sprees? He dug a hole right in front of his argument, then proceeded to drive himself directly into it! What a f*cking moron!

[Cure]

So, has anyone seen the interview he had on MSNBC? It's great that the interviewer was totally taking him to task for making sh*t up. Even better, JT totally made himself look like an ass with a single statement. According to him, violent videogames make kids go nuts, then he states that 80% of male college students are playing these violent games, so then why aren't more than .1% of these kids going on insane killing sprees? He dug a hole right in front of his argument, then proceeded to drive himself directly into it! What a f*cking moron!

Definitely sounds like him. Hopefully that gets Youtube'd as well.

[Ecto Jedi]

So, has anyone seen the interview he had on MSNBC? It's great that the interviewer was totally taking him to task for making sh*t up. Even better, JT totally made himself look like an ass with a single statement. According to him, violent videogames make kids go nuts, then he states that 80% of male college students are playing these violent games, so then why aren't more than .1% of these kids going on insane killing sprees? He dug a hole right in front of his argument, then proceeded to drive himself directly into it! What a f*cking moron!

Oh man -- I need to see this video!

[Ra]

I was wondering how long it was going to be until he would say something like this. He uses any act of violence and uses it in his campaign against video games. Not exactly a respectful thing to do... *sighs*

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

If anyone wanted proof that he's just an attention whore, look no further.

[GK Punk]

So, has anyone seen the interview he had on MSNBC? It's great that the interviewer was totally taking him to task for making sh*t up. Even better, JT totally made himself look like an ass with a single statement. According to him, violent videogames make kids go nuts, then he states that 80% of male college students are playing these violent games, so then why aren't more than .1% of these kids going on insane killing sprees? He dug a hole right in front of his argument, then proceeded to drive himself directly into it! What a f*cking moron!

Haha that's so awesome