Comments on: Why Stop at Violence?

By: Davvolun

Davvolun — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:49:00 +0000

Five seconds of googling: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/violent-crime/violent-crime . Obviously this particular graph is a little slanted in that it looks like stats have dropped drastically (define drastically in this context, I guess), but dropping about 200,000 out of 1.5 million isn’t quite as dramatic. Nonetheless, my point is that the statistics are out there and anyone can look them up, but they don’t.

I harder question is whether video game violence, competitive video games, or just competitive sports in general are positively correlated with acts of violence. But since we can’t even get people to look at the stats first…

Found an even better graph:
http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=b1tlmra7lb7a9_&ctype=l&met_y=crime_rate#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=crime_rate&fdim_y=crime_type:violent&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:US&ifdim=country&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false

By: thewood

thewood — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:30:36 +0000

I’ve read that somewhere too, but I don’t remember where.

By: theycallmetomu

theycallmetomu — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:19:43 +0000

TBH, I think there’s even been a decrease in violent crime per capita over the period of time that gaming has increased in our culture. Not sure, someone needs the stats.

By: Triaxx2

Triaxx2 — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:45:02 +0000

Another cause of videogame related violence: Listening to people telling you video games are causing violence.

By: MasterVayne

MasterVayne — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:13:21 +0000

I kinda want someone to find a link between a bunch of violent crimes, like “all the shooters were found to be using Crest brand toothpaste”. Then gather a group of people demanding that Crest acknowledge that their product may be causing violent tendencies. What’s that you say? Millions of people use your toothpaste that aren’t violent? Well whaddaya know….