Jack Thompson blames video-games for VA-Tech Shooting

[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]

Originally Posted by Spitfire666xXxXx

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

wha? where'd you get that from?

[Spitfire]

Originally Posted by bullet

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......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]

Originally Posted by Ai

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]

Originally Posted by bullet

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.

[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.