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I think there is a link, but the causation arrow is opposite what you think it is.

Violent video games don't create violent people necessarily, but video people like to play violent video games.




Multiple shooters have mentioned "high score" in their manifestos or messages left before the attacks.


I don't disagree, that is why I choose the term link as opposed to causation, it could very well be that they are choosing to immerse themselves in violent content because they have a predisposed desire for it.

It is also why I am anti-censorship, as I believe it is the opposite side of the same coin as blaming the gun for mass murders.

Just as guns are linked to these issues as the tool of choice, we find back linking to excessive immersion in violent media.

I just find is strange the cognitive dissonance people make when wanting to ban the one but not the other when they are both clearly linked. They want law abiding people to give up their guns but find all kinds of reasons to deny the link with violent content.




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