This is like the flavor of the Internet right now "I am contractually obligated to read everything! Stop posting things I don't want to read!"

That's dumb. Unarmed Egyptians pretty much overthrew a genuinely despotic government.

No, I'm pretty sure guns do actually kill people.

No. Revoke the 2nd Amendment.

No. Australia and Canada both essentially banned guns as a result of mass shootings. The result has been a massive decline in mass shootings with no concommitant increase in crime.

*So, do you believe that the media first and foremost is the cause, or that it can become catalyzing for people who lack the ability to separate their perspectives?*

I agree with this completely, particularly Normans' discomfort with having to explain matters to his kids. Giving up violent video games, movies, and TV is actually step 2 for me.* Like him, I don't believe there's a 'locked' correlation between violent media and violence, but there's *some* connection and more to the…

*... the subtle notion that video games involve the same mental processes as dissociating oneself from real people.*

Yeah. Honestly, I do agree. I think violent games (or yeah, movies or whatever) have something to do with violent actions. It's a 'lock' or an ironclad association. But the argument that these two phenomena have simply nothing to do with each other is hard for me to believe anymore.

Yes, I think they should be thus associated is my answer.

Not only didn't you read "Lolita", you also don't seem to have read this article:

No, I'm pretty sure guns had something to do with it.

Didn't read the article did you?

You didn't read "Lolita", did you? 'Cause rest assured: Humbert is solidly portrayed as a pathetic villain in that story.

Didn't really read the article, did you?

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ITSA-ME! A-SEXUAL HARASSA-MENT!

C'mon, iOS-ify the Gamecube version of FF Crystal Chronicles!!

Fine. I've said this before on other threads: I don't care and neither should anyone else, no matter what their feelings on censorship. Rockefeller's committee will launch some study. A year or two will pass. A few million will be spent. A great big thick honking PDF will be produced, land with a thud, and vanish from…

Hear, hear! Save the rainforest!