Quote from: Ucy on September 13, 2019, 07:54:44 AM

Quote from: Artemis3 on September 11, 2019, 10:07:12 PM

Quote from: Ucy on September 11, 2019, 05:38:11 PM

Violent game makers could atleast try to teach children through their game the consequences of killing people who have not been declared guilty by court. The developers could make the kids believe that any game character that qualifies to be killed has been sentenced to death by the court of law. This should make the kids accept that the reality in games and real world are thesame. Then the game reality and the real world reality won't be in conflict in the kid's mind

In the year 2xxx it was decided to change death sentences, from humane but boring injections, into one more useful for society idea: Survival games!

Indeed, its an old idea, dating perhaps to the times of the great Roman Empire, where Gladiators could earn their living in the same way. Could the winner even perhaps receive presidential pardon?

Remember kids, only those sentenced to death can participate. When your character dies, you will get assigned another death sentenced inmate.

I can see the bright future now....

Or, you could just stick to zombies...

You mean survival "games" with real humans? Like sending both innocent prisoners and real criminals to fight with lions, bull and all sort of beast? No, I don't think so! Not what I'm talking about atall. I'm talking about game characters.

Well, I think developers could shift to justified murder and then gradually phase the whole thing out completely.
I honestly don't see the benefit of violent video games to kids. It probably should be left for the military & adults.

Imagine if the law is immediately withdrawn from a society... I bet most of the violent game kids will go on destructive, murderous and lawless rampage. I think fear of the law is what is currently holding them back.

I agree kids should be kept away from violent video games, but defining the nature of "violent" can be tricky at best. Is Minecraft violent when another player kills you?

Of course there are games that are easy to identify as such, and some game publishers even use that weird rating system of theirs.

Actually my post was meant to be the story inside a game lol... But yeah, you might give ideas to the real world. But in any case, its for the death sentenced only. I bet more than one "reality show" producer would love it...

What to do with kids and video games and the internet? I'm not even sure. Perhaps keep them away from it entirely before 13, restricted before 18?, i don't know the right answer frankly. Restricting times might tone down addiction or might give them anxiety. Was it like that when the TV invaded people's home's in the past? Did the earlier generations that grew up without the "electric nanny" had the exact same thoughts?

It might be that in the future the internet/games would be even more invasive, this is a core argument for the Accel World anime, people get a chip implanted that basically gives them augmented reality everywhere, and there is even a whole plot about some secretive (fighting) game being played with it...

But the genie is out of the bottle, so i don't know, i did play a few shooters when i was a teenager, but it was single player games, as multi player connectivity was but a dream in the early 90ies... There are some parents that absolutely hate video games, as i clearly remember before there were parents that also detested TVs and giving them one for their room was unacceptable (i had one, plus 8bit video game console, but some of my friends couldn't).