Videogames more dangerous than smoking?

[Basil Zero]

Lmao, they need better researchers

[armyStrong]

I just...don't understand...

The correlation doesn't even make sense...You simply can't compare violent crimes with smoking-caused cancer deaths...
There are so many factors that go into violent crimes that trying to put video game/movie violence on the same playing field of causes with cigarettes (concerning cancer) is laughable...

I am at a loss for words to further describe the stupidity of this study...

[_X_Zero]

HAHAHAH thats soo much B*S*....

[stevo11185]

This reminds me of a study conducted by people in the past....about effects of smoking. People didn't listen until people started to die....the same will happen here.

Motive for the move to rubbish research about the risks of smoking = money

Motive to keep violent games on the market = Money

The sooner people realize that gaming companies are not out to let you have fun, but to make money, the better. and really, have you even read the research. Without reading it you cannot say one thing or the other whether it is wrong or not.

Do you really think that Rockstar want to let 'Adults' make a choice what game they play. If you look at the figures Manhunt was one of the best selling games. Also research showed that SOME people who played the game went on to kill other people. And before you rubbish all of this just realise one thing, not everyone is the same. But the point here is

PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN THE CURE

[devdj]

it seems that only incompetence and impotence $#@! from the
University of Michigan. By the way this is another useless thread about Michigan.

[Triv1um]

Next time its going to be Videogames more dangerious than shooting yourself in the face.

Its ****ing pathetic.

[wolfpack]

Videogames are the reason I DONT commit crimes.

Why really shoot a cop in the face and get jail time when you could load up Grand Theft Auto and shoot hundreds of cops in the head and outrun them in the game and NOT get jailtime in real life.

My conclusion to this study is, those researchers are on crack.

End of Story.

[digitalhijinx]

This is a pretty funny, yet at the same time pretty sad story,

A) I love how they group movies and video games and
then point the finger at video games.

and

B) How they say that people who bought some of the best selling violent video games killed people. That's just ridiculous. I mean how many American males ages 15-25 havent played Grand theft auto, Halo, Counter Strike, Man Hunt or whatever their biased violent video game is.

The point is, its just something that is part of people's past time now, it'd be like saying baseball in the '20s caused violence because "some" people who played it went on to kill people I mean come on, use some common sense.

[Uberman]

Bad parenting is far more responsible for people committing crimes than video games will ever be.

[SILENT ONE]

These Idiot "smart" people. People kill people because they are crazy, not because
they seen it on tv, or because they did it on a game. Sure a couple rounds of Hello Kitty DDR could make you want to kill someone, but that doesn't mean all video games make you want to kill. If you truly want to kill someone your just a crazy lunatic. Just take some Prozac and stop blaming everything on scapegoats. You crazy S.O.B.