Reply #104: It doesn't really make us better people ,but it doesn't make us worse

[YOY]

I wiped out the Mayans yesterday on the digital edge of my Spanish conquistador's sword. I forced them to convert to Christianity at that very swords point. I really don't feel too guilty about it nor am I about to run amok in the Yucatan with a cutlass and a bible.

It doesn't make me a good or bad person. It really doesn't affect my or anyone psyche as it is simply not real. Only a psychotic (and I do not mean to demean the mentally ill in any way) would view it as a direct connection to reality.

Somethings just don't really affect us in positive or negative ways. Just as reading a book doesn't make you a better person or watching a bit of entertainment. Perhaps a little better informed in some aspects, but neither a better nor a worse person.

I don't see anywhere in my post or in reality where the idea that it makes you a "better" person at all. It simply has nothing to do with one's morality or the swaying of it.

Take that nut who shot John Lennon. Did reading "Catcher in the Rye" make him a better or worse person? Hey, it's a damn good book after all. No, being a mental case was what made him do it. (That and perhaps his psycho fundie upbringing...)

None-the-less, such an example has yet to happen with video gamers.