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In reply to the discussion: The violent videogames. Yes, they are a contributor. [View all]Xyzse
(8,217 posts)So at times I have to wonder what is going on in the guy's head.
What type of twisted logic did he go through to get to that point.
In killing his mother first, perhaps to try to feel, yet could not.
Then to travel to the school, to kill the kids since they were what was important to his mother. Hating that which she loved since he can't feel that same way or perhaps was it jealousy?
I don't know. However, that to me seems a more plausible reason to why he did such a thing rather than the effects of being desensitized through video game violence.
I know games can get emotional. I mean, I know some people that went ballistic when their MMORPG like Warcraft Privileges got taken off. I even thought I heard someone kill somebody for cancelling their accounts or something.
However, I don't equate that to the video game violence itself, rather their addiction to it and the video game/player being taken away. I can see someone going bonkers if they lose their virtua-pet, or their television taken away or something else that means a lot to them.
This may actually be amplified by MMORPGs, which creates a community that they feel part of. Facing the prospect of that loss to such a connection, or something that they feel they worked on for a long time. People do sometimes lose it and do something in the heat of the moment.
Now I am not saying that I am against games, far from it, just saying that sometimes the value system is skewed, but that isn't in relation to the violence within the game, but perhaps how important whatever it is to them, be it a game, a system, a machine or what not.
That it happens due to games, to me is few and far between. It just gets sensationalized due to it being related to a game. It doesn't even have to be the violence factor in the game, just how important it is to them.
Any how, Lanza however, this instance seems too cold to have been done in the heat of the moment. There is a certain amount of pre-meditation to go to the school after killing his mother.