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While perusing the headlines on the main page, I followed the embedded wiki-link to this article. Right there in the intro of the article I found this bold (literally) claim: '''''Video games are likely the single biggest cause of bright young men dropping out of college, and also committing heinous acts of violence.''''' To say I was somewhat stunned would be an understatement. While on the path of obtaining my degrees, I was tempted to dropout on more than one occasion. Like many others, financial problems, work scheduling, personal issues, and simple lack of interest served as a near-constant distraction to my studies. Yet despite all of these things I had to juggle during my collegiate days, addiction to violent video games wasn't one of them. I simply can't imagine a temptation so great that not only would it encourage me to discontinue my education, it would also goad me into performing acts of mindless violence. Clearly a lot has changed in the nearly 20 years since I attended my alma mater. Please provide me with citations and/or links that support this incredible information. Clearly, anything described as "... ''the single biggest cause''..." would have no trouble producing a concordance (consilience) of sources in agreement. --[[User:DonnyC|DonnyC]] 03:12, 22 April 2013 (EDT)
While perusing the headlines on the main page, I followed the embedded wiki-link to this article. Right there in the intro of the article I found this bold (literally) claim: '''''Video games are likely the single biggest cause of bright young men dropping out of college, and also committing heinous acts of violence.''''' To say I was somewhat stunned would be an understatement. While on the path of obtaining my degrees, I was tempted to dropout on more than one occasion. Like many others, financial problems, work scheduling, personal issues, and simple lack of interest served as a near-constant distraction to my studies. Yet despite all of these things I had to juggle during my collegiate days, addiction to violent video games wasn't one of them. I simply can't imagine a temptation so great that not only would it encourage me to discontinue my education, it would also goad me into performing acts of mindless violence. Clearly a lot has changed in the nearly 20 years since I attended my alma mater. Please provide me with citations and/or links that support this incredible information. Clearly, anything described as "... ''the single biggest cause''..." would have no trouble producing a concordance (consilience) of sources in agreement. --[[User:DonnyC|DonnyC]] 03:12, 22 April 2013 (EDT)
:Yeah, agreed with that. Heck, during Oglethorpe, I even was tempted to drop out once back in 2013, and video games played absolutely NO role in the plan whatsoever nor did my even using the Internet. Far from it, my motivation for potentially dropping out was simply to escape the brainwashing factory that they called a university. And in fact, I was very dedicated to my studies.
:On that note, while it is unfortunately true that people have been motivated to kill due to Video Games, that's practically typical with ANY form of media. People have also complained about Hollywood movies inspiring people to kill (Columbine Massacres), and with TV shows inspiring bad behavior. Heck, even with books, we've got people who were inspired to do a LOT of vile actions (just ask the French Philosophes' works during the Enlightenment which led to the French Revolution and Reign of Terror, or how about Karl Marx's Communist manifesto, or Sade's works, especially 120 Nights of Sodom), so to say that Video Games are something that must be destroyed due to influencing liberal behavior is spacious at best (we could argue the exact same thing with literally ANY fictional medium). I could easily argue that books, for example are the number one influence in causing murder, yet you'd laugh me away if I said that. We'll probably keep the fact that it does encourage violence, but we definitely shouldn't claim it's the single cause of killings.
:I think it's high time we did Greatest Conservative Gaming and Worst Liberal Gaming, like what we've done with plenty other mediums on here, as believe it or not, there ARE games that are either conservative or otherwise have some conservative messaging, just as much as there are games that are either liberal or otherwise have some liberal messaging. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 09:11, 14 August 2016 (EDT)