Re: Liberals Creating Their Own Enemy (Video Games)
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Re: Liberals Creating Their Own Enemy (Video Games)         

Group: alt.politics.usa.congress · Group Profile
Author: Wide Eyed in Wonder
Date: Aug 5, 2007 19:54

On Aug 3, 11:55 am, c...@afone.as.arizona.edu (Cary Kittrell) wrote:
> In article <1186148555.498034.76...@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Wide Eyed in Wonder hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> I was just thinking of a way that liberals are creating their own
>> enemy. For many decades, liberals have rejected Republican calls for
>> censorship and limits on violent video games and music. Liberals said
>> that free speech must protect these violence promoting products. So,
>> they remained on the market for kids to play.
>
>> Then, these kids grew up. Now, they are raping, stealing, and
>> killing, just as they were instructed to do in those products...and
>> liberals are upset.
>
> Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, uniform crime statistics show
> that serious crime peaked in the early 90s and has been
> in decline ever since.
>
> By Ken Clifton logic, therefore, what this society needs
> is even more violent video games.
>
>
>
>> For decades, liberals defended games that promoted war, including
>> Command and Conquer that was a war on a terrorist group. Now, when
>> those game players grow up and support war in the world (as the games
>> told them to do), liberals protest the outcome they allowed.
>
> So you're telling us that only neo-con kids played video games?
>
> Maybe you're on to something with that one. Maybe the liberal
> kids were all reading books.
>
> -- cary

If you are saying that media doesn't influence behavior...

1. The Democrats are wrong to protest GOP ad campaigns.
2. Democrats should run no ads.
3. Companies waste billions in marketing budgets yearly.
4. The Army is wrong to advertise on violent video games and movies
(since those movies wouldn't influence them to be violent).

Right?

Ken Clifton
christiansuperhero.com
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