Does Music/Video Games influence crimes?

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Does Music/Video games influence violence?

  • Yes

    Votes: 3 16.7%
  • No

    Votes: 15 83.3%
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IMO media only slightly effects ppl's desicions. If someone wants to kill they kill, they dont need a video game to tell them to kill.
 
Actually I'm going to have a different opinion. I'm not for censoring games or video games, but I believe almost everything influences crimes you know? Seeing lots of things lead people to do crimes, like seeing riots on TV and whatnot. Some can be a positive influence, some negative. But certainly some games and some music will make some people tend to commit crimes. I think. :sleep:
 
well, in the case of the GT series, then I can honestly say "yes". When I drove last weekend, I felt compelled to floor it, and to drive like a racer around the corners. Not that that's a bad thing, but once I get my licence I will be speeding and testing my car out...hell I've already started to gather people for a race event I'm holding summer 2003...don't worry though, where it's at isn't major roads, and there's like no cars on the road at the time we're going to race...and it's in slow cars lol, and we're gonna slow down when we see cars comeing and stuff. Just trying to play it safe and have fun too...
 
speak for yourself lol

J/k, yea vid games won't make kids be violent, just maybe drive fast, or try different tricks on skate boards or bikes lol
 
Does Music/Video games influence violence?

Absolutely! An individual is comprised of their experiences. Their thoughts and emotions are build on their experiences and interactions with the world around them. If they build a world of violent games, and (for lack of a better word) hateful music, they're going to become a violent hateful person. "You are what you eat" or more appropriately, "you are what you consume".

~LoudMusic
 
I think they do have some effect - but so do TV, films, books and other media - and people are receiving those in far greater proportion.

This stuff about games being worse because they're interactive is just a sop to the TV/Film industry.
 
video games/music can affect the way we think...

how many Nirvana fans commited suicide after Kurt Cobain did?
 
UK Garage music causes all sorts...one of the reasons I hate it along with rap, r & b, hip hop, pop, classical, country :p
 
I think it has a minimum influence on ppl.
Maybe it can work as a trigger for violent behavior, but it's not only that.
I think the ppl who commits violent crimes are already a bit abnormal
 
Parappa the Rappa made me a better dancer.

except...

...punch, kick, block, it's all in the mind...

...I've killed on the dance floor! :eek:

;) :D
 
Music and video games DO NOT lead to violent behaviour. That idea is supported by poeple who are looking to blame an outside influence for their own lack of parenting skills.

Look at parents of the kids who got killed at Columbine. Their parents SUED THE SHERRIF'S DEPARTMENT!!! What a joke. Always looking to blame someone else.
 
Originally posted by Tank
Music and video games DO NOT lead to violent behaviour. That idea is supported by poeple who are looking to blame an outside influence for their own lack of parenting skills.

Look at parents of the kids who got killed at Columbine. Their parents SUED THE SHERRIF'S DEPARTMENT!!! What a joke. Always looking to blame someone else.

Well, that's probably an extreme view - but you do raise some valid points. In the absence of strong role models in the household (ie. Mum and Dad, or older brother and sister), kids will seek out other influences - ie. music, tv/film, video games etc. So, your point on parenting is certainly valid.
 
Originally posted by Klostrophobic
Idiots commit crimes becase they are simply idiots.

Exactly.

I've been into exreme music, ever since my early teens, and violent videogames too.

Never done any crimes though.
 
Originally posted by Klostrophobic
Idiots commit crimes becase they are simply idiots.

Originally posted by CloneHead
Exactly.

I've been into exreme music, ever since my early teens, and violent videogames too.

Never done any crimes though.

You two make it sound like you believe people are born with a certain life style 'pre-programmed' in their DNA. Does this mean we aren't able to make choices for ourselves? I think you would disagree with that. So, what do we base our decisions and choices on? We base it on what we know. Apparently you, CloneHead, have/had someone in your life teaching what is right and wrong. Keep in mind that not everyone is in the same situation.

~LoudMusic
 
Yeah, but you don't have to become a raving lunatic because you listen to Death Metal, and play Soldier of Fortune on a daily basis.

People who commit crimes, will do so regardless of what kind of music, games, movies or religion they are into.

If "bad" music+games+movies would make you a criminal, then I would have been burying bodies in my backyard several times. 😈

Don't blame it all on the media.
 
seeing slipknot, do goats up the arse on tv dosnt make me want to go do one up the arse and get sued for it, by the farmer or whatever...
 
I believe that people make there own choices based on what they are tought. But knowing right from wrong just takes good sence, but I guess alot of people don't have that.
 
Originally posted by Ghostrider
I believe that people make there own choices based on what they are tought. But knowing right from wrong just takes good sence, but I guess alot of people don't have that.

That I completely agree with. My question, and I'm not picking on you, I just want your opinion - why don't people have good sense?

~LoudMusic
 
religion is the answer to that LoudMusic, it causes war, probably why I'm an athiest...in East End of London, u get gangs, like Indian gangs and English kids, fight each other, its sick, why cant we all live in peace ? They all fight over beliefs and what they think is right or wrong...:(
 
I find it hard to believe that you're blaiming "lack of good sense" on religion.

I'll agree that religious beliefs fuel war, but what about things like the Civil War? States devided over an opinion about slavery. Or crazy guys like Alexander the Great or Nepoleon ... the many Ceasers, Zars, and Emporers who's religion was simply that they should rule everything they see.

I wouldn't say that religion is the root to conflict - I would say that the lack of comprimise during indifferance is the root to conflict. People who won't give a little for their neighbor aren't worth the carbon they're made of.

~LoudMusic
 
'Man' is the root of conflict surely. Religion, football teams etc just give you ('you' as a general term) a cause or excuse. It gives you a 'tribe'. Some people take it too far.
 
I go back to the original topic, and my first post under this topic.

Originally posted by LoudMusic
Does Music/Video games influence violence?

You can not possibly say that it doesn't. There are many documented accounts of individuals and groups that have re-enacted things they've seen in a game or heard someone sing about in a song that resulted in criminal activity. Music not so much ... but video games, television, and movies absolutely.

Examples: There were more ARRESTS for wreckless driving the opening week of The Fast and the Furious than any other week previously in the majority of bigger cities. Mine was no exception ...

Columbine was already mentioned, for a different point, and it works quite well here as well. Quake got some bad press because of that, and if it wasn't for that violent video game, in conjunction with horrible parenting, you can be pretty sure the shootings wouldn't have ever happened.

I'm just a little bit afraid what is going to happen in the next couple of years with GTA-3 in the hands of children who's parents aren't paying attention. It's a cool game and when I get an extra $50 I'll be getting my copy, but there's no way I'd let some of the kids in my neighborhood play it.

~LoudMusic
 
Originally posted by LoudMusic


That I completely agree with. My question, and I'm not picking on you, I just want your opinion - why don't people have good sense?

~LoudMusic

Lack of role models - ie. they don't see good sense displayed at home or by significant influences in their lives. That's why poor families tend to stay poor, dads who drive badly tend to produce kids who drive badly, uneducated families produce uneducated kids - learned behaviour.
 
I guess you have to ask yourself if a criminal is influenced to commit the crime or, if in a isolated environment with no influences, would still commit the crime.

I think you would find the answer to that questions as being a yes/no answer depending on the subject. Some people are going to commit the crime no matter what their environment is, regardless of influences, good or bad.

Some people might not, there are some people that are extreemly impressionalbe, that given the right circumstances, would do what the environment dictates to them.

Given that I would have to say that V-Games, Music, actually all of your surroundings are a influence. If your around it, it WILL influence you. The question is, will you act upon your influences in a positive or negitive way, which comes down to your morals and ethics.

:cheers:
 
Originally posted by vat_man


Lack of role models - ie. they don't see good sense displayed at home or by significant influences in their lives. That's why poor families tend to stay poor, dads who drive badly tend to produce kids who drive badly, uneducated families produce uneducated kids - learned behaviour.

That's my feelings exactly. Monkey see, monkey do. But I was actually looking for Ghostrider's responce, since he was the one that made the original statement (:

Thanks for the input, though, mate! heh heh

~LoudMusic
 
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