very interesting comment i found on youtube

[GodsPerspective]

It's a video game. You're splitting hairs about why killing in one video game that isn't real is acceptable and why in another video game that also isn't real killing is unacceptable? That's laughable. There's no required justification for killing in a game and if you've ever played more than one violent game then you find video game violence entertaining.

All I'm saying is cut the crap. Your rationalizations about virtual violence to make yourself feel better about it is pointless anyway.

Maybe you're just stupid.

I explained everything in my initial post. If you didn't understand then that's too bad, there's no point in arguing

 

[winb83]

Maybe you're just stupid.

I explained everything in my initial post. If you didn't understand then that's too bad, there's no point in arguing

And from my perspective if you condemn this game you're no different than the people that condemn GTA simply because they don't agree with it's content.

I take that back at least the lot of those people are typically consistent with their condemnation of video game violence and are usually against it all. They don't tend to cherry pick what violence in a game is acceptable vs unacceptable and use "context" as a bullshyt rationalization.

0 people have mimicked Haterd and actually killed anyone. If anything hatred is art imitating life. There are documented cases of people doing killings inspired by GTA. Many of them. So you justify the existence of a game that has actually cost real people their lives and condemn one that hasn't all due to "context?"

Laughable.

 

[chemicalsword]

nothing against this game... maybe I'd think it was something I'd get into as a teenager
seems a little
doesn't look my type of fun at this stage in my life.....

 

[daze23]

in this thread people will argue the virtues of a game named "grand theft auto"

 

[John Mayer]

WRONG

In life context is everything. And I really mean everything. Sure GTA might promote ideologies like hitting random people or running them over, but that's not the central theme of the game.

THE CENTRAL THEME of this game is something that any suicidal person can do. How many people can take this for inspiration and actually attempt to go out and do something like this.

I don't agree with games that take it too far like this. It plays a huge factor into why this society is regressing into something worse day by day.

Dude the Game is called Grand Theft Auto how central of a theme can you get with that title.

 

[duncanthetall]

Waaaaaah Waaaaaah. I don't like it. Ban it. Fire somebody. Mean tweets