Have there been any studies specifically on the effects of violent video games on the mentally ill?
afaik the studies are all investigating whether video games make the average person violent or if they increase population-level violence and obviously they don't because until very recently violent crime has been at all-time lows.
> but it's only the US with the gun problem
Because we have guns. We all know this. But we've always had guns, and only recently have had mass shootings. So something else is at work here.
It's bizarre to me that so many tech people think we need to regulate speech, and news, and social media because it makes people do things they otherwise would not, but then they have this special carve-out for what are essentially mass shooting simulators, which they believe have absolutely no effect on anyone.
Disclaimer: I'm not advocating for any policy here.
afaik the studies are all investigating whether video games make the average person violent or if they increase population-level violence and obviously they don't because until very recently violent crime has been at all-time lows.
> but it's only the US with the gun problem
Because we have guns. We all know this. But we've always had guns, and only recently have had mass shootings. So something else is at work here.
It's bizarre to me that so many tech people think we need to regulate speech, and news, and social media because it makes people do things they otherwise would not, but then they have this special carve-out for what are essentially mass shooting simulators, which they believe have absolutely no effect on anyone.
Disclaimer: I'm not advocating for any policy here.