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In reply to the discussion: I'm the mother of an extremely bright male who loves video games. [View all]Confusious
(8,317 posts)24. That would be the brazil list
I noticed because it had Everquest on it.
A. Brazil's violence is horrendous, even with the bannings.
B. Everquest is the most innocuous game ever. There's another reason then violence for some of those bannings.
It's the fact that Australia did in fact change the ratings on lesser violent ones, and banned the bloodier ones, in an effort to deal with mass killings. Their efforts seem to have worked.
Really. Would you happen to have a link for that, or are you just going to expect me to take your word for it? I usually don't do that, you see, or else I would be sending a lot of money to Nigeria.
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Because when I think unbiased, nonhysterical information about mental illness and violence
Codeine
Dec 2012
#1
There are a lot of people in the world who want to tell us how much we suck at raising our kids, but
GreenPartyVoter
Dec 2012
#18
One thing is certain. There is no harm if he does NOT play violent video games.
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#11
Yes, I saw that. But it concluded there is a link. That's the point. There are NO studies...
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#22
The studies concluded that violent video games are a strong predictor of future violence...
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#23