I must say this discussion is surely very much on topic no matter what you guys (and ladies... sorry for being so darn male oriented in my writing) have said before.
I don't think any of this above is off topic in any way as it all ties in together to the simple fact of humans and their sometimes incomprehensible behavior.
I also firmly believe we don't hear from media much until an issue is so big that it sells newspapers/airtime on TV and so on.
For sure, all they are interested in, is to make money on their audience, and they simply piggy-back on the whole concept of free advertising for writing popular stuff. So also with some reasoning behind TBS approaching a topic in such a way that it "creates" headlines when none exists solely to sell an extra few copies or minutes of air time.
Don't ever forget good folks, that journalists mostly get paid by the printed word, and editors main chore is to edit other peoples text to a bare minimum, not to deliver the full story, but to need to pay their employees less for a "reasonably similar" story. Who in that sense ever cared about the truth. (I speak from personal experience there since when I was much younger than today, I used to work for a news agency. One of the larger.)
On the next issue, I agree completely with Spacebird.
I belong to a generation raised on Donald Duck, and in fact at age 5 I learned to read from the help of a white duck and a crazy mouse.
Never once have I pondered having a super safe styled Uncle Scrooge, or dive in gold as I know it would hurt very badly.
It seems, once more, an issue of popular belief setting a trend in legislators minds rather than scientific proof of anyone acting out on actions in games, rather than the person acting out such things having some serious deficiencies well before playing the game in question.
It is as age old and seen before as for instance the issue of Gay parades and people trying to justify their stigma with some people being sexually different. How many times in a decade don't we hear someone coming up with one more wacky idea than before about how homosexuality for instance is a medicinal state, or illness. Only to later find out there is no scientific proof for such statements whatsoever. Genetic, possible. Medicinal, no way.
It is simply a way for the human mind to try to shield itself from dealing with real issues and what they directly do not understand themselves, that leads to this mass hysteria of chasing make-belief bad guys.
A perfect example of this, when it comes to r*** and child abuse is seen in the recent legislations banning one thing after another. As a parallel, at the present the main suspect in a known European case of possible child abduction, is avoiding questioning by investigators by simply saying no to an interview, where it would be truly simple for the local police to just walk in and ask the questions as he lies in his hospital bed in a public hospital.
Instead of going after this known, previously convicted, pedo, the law is chasing comic book readers and game makers, where the real trouble makers go free.
In other words, the whole thing is a sham to make media happy, settle concerns of the less informed and deliver some form of construed justice.
If it works in the long-run without impairing civil liberties, I seriously don't think so.
Do people swallow it?
Apparently, since we don't hear much complaints against the continued lack of action where it really counts. In my opinion, people are simple minded if they keep thinking the "activist groups" in question really where doing something, they would go to the apparent root of the problem when it is written in their faces where it lays.
Sorry about this rant, but when you look at the overall picture, it's all related somehow.
I don't think any of this above is off topic in any way as it all ties in together to the simple fact of humans and their sometimes incomprehensible behavior.
I also firmly believe we don't hear from media much until an issue is so big that it sells newspapers/airtime on TV and so on.
For sure, all they are interested in, is to make money on their audience, and they simply piggy-back on the whole concept of free advertising for writing popular stuff. So also with some reasoning behind TBS approaching a topic in such a way that it "creates" headlines when none exists solely to sell an extra few copies or minutes of air time.
Don't ever forget good folks, that journalists mostly get paid by the printed word, and editors main chore is to edit other peoples text to a bare minimum, not to deliver the full story, but to need to pay their employees less for a "reasonably similar" story. Who in that sense ever cared about the truth. (I speak from personal experience there since when I was much younger than today, I used to work for a news agency. One of the larger.)
On the next issue, I agree completely with Spacebird.
I belong to a generation raised on Donald Duck, and in fact at age 5 I learned to read from the help of a white duck and a crazy mouse.
Never once have I pondered having a super safe styled Uncle Scrooge, or dive in gold as I know it would hurt very badly.
It seems, once more, an issue of popular belief setting a trend in legislators minds rather than scientific proof of anyone acting out on actions in games, rather than the person acting out such things having some serious deficiencies well before playing the game in question.
It is as age old and seen before as for instance the issue of Gay parades and people trying to justify their stigma with some people being sexually different. How many times in a decade don't we hear someone coming up with one more wacky idea than before about how homosexuality for instance is a medicinal state, or illness. Only to later find out there is no scientific proof for such statements whatsoever. Genetic, possible. Medicinal, no way.
It is simply a way for the human mind to try to shield itself from dealing with real issues and what they directly do not understand themselves, that leads to this mass hysteria of chasing make-belief bad guys.
A perfect example of this, when it comes to r*** and child abuse is seen in the recent legislations banning one thing after another. As a parallel, at the present the main suspect in a known European case of possible child abduction, is avoiding questioning by investigators by simply saying no to an interview, where it would be truly simple for the local police to just walk in and ask the questions as he lies in his hospital bed in a public hospital.
Instead of going after this known, previously convicted, pedo, the law is chasing comic book readers and game makers, where the real trouble makers go free.
In other words, the whole thing is a sham to make media happy, settle concerns of the less informed and deliver some form of construed justice.
If it works in the long-run without impairing civil liberties, I seriously don't think so.
Do people swallow it?
Apparently, since we don't hear much complaints against the continued lack of action where it really counts. In my opinion, people are simple minded if they keep thinking the "activist groups" in question really where doing something, they would go to the apparent root of the problem when it is written in their faces where it lays.
Sorry about this rant, but when you look at the overall picture, it's all related somehow.
