Alright, this is something that bothers me a little, every day you hear about kids, young kids, kids my age around 14 and 15, everyone 20 and younger, imitating something. Think , wrestling, kid dies from rough housing, its all too common situation. Action movies, kids go out and start shooting things, blow off steam that way. So why is it that when a kid imitates a videogame, You get an entire article about (depending on the author) either how that videogame itself is Addictive, or unhealthy, or a gore fest. Or how an entire system, or videogames in general, are unhealthy. I heard once about the Nintendo DS being a pedophile's tool and the PSP being a porn box. What?! Well yeah, sure you CAN usethe DS as a pedophile's too but by that logic you can also use loli-pops and toy soldiers! And the PSP? So, how about the same for the I pod touch and...porn magazines.

Alright, so point is, because a video game can be violent, or used in odd ways, or anything of the sort doesnt make it any different from a movie or common object. A book about murder or a horror film can do the same. While its stupid, groteque, and annoying when a game is just a pure all out gore fest, it has the right to be a gore fest and stop acting like a game magically hypnotised a person into doing a crime, when the game usually isnt what even influenced them! 

One more huge point, think about this, when was the last time you heard "A boy comits murder mother immidiately after playing GTA4. No other cause what so ever was found. Just the videogame. The boy was a straight A student and loved dearly untill he played GTA4"

Or this"A girl with a perfectly healthy attitude loses her peechy outlook on life and becomes clinically depressed the moment she plays WoW. She forgot about the real world and eventually fainted at her computer."

When I hear that a video game is the main, original, and only cause for an injury, Untill then I'm pretty sure there are reasons like years of back up, clinicall depression, etc. Infact, I think its rare that a videogame even sparks the idea for something like that....Except for mmo's which, while youd have to be clinically depressed to actually manage to die through MMO, I admit might be addictive. I mean, if youve lost the will to exist in the real world and only want to be in one single MMO FOREVER, youve also lost the will to live.  Its just the seperation between reality and fiction in that case....right?

Uhm... First blog...Im not amazing at this...Hope you enjoyed reading it...No flames, but decent, considerable, realistic arguments are accepted. Thank you for reading and not grazing through one paragraph to assume the rest of the message then posting a flame/counter rant. I appriciate it.