Quote:NEGLIGENCE
The tort of negligence is:

1.   doing something that a person using ordinary care would not do, or
2.   not doing something that a person using ordinary care would do.  W. Page Keeton et al., Prosser and Keeton on the Law of Torts, §§ 28-31.

Quote:the parents of the boys and the boys themselves.

Quote:In the 1980s, arcade games like Pac-Man became dominant. In Pac-Man, a yellow orb with a mouth raced around the screen chomping up ghosts and goblins. At this point, some eyebrows were raised questioning whether young people should play such "violent" games.

Quote:Spare the violent video games, save on child psychology
By Adele Horin
September 10, 2003

If you believe children should do their homework and adults should not smoke around kids, then you should also ban violent video games from your home, a visiting psychologist says.

Craig Anderson, chairman of the department of psychology at Iowa State University, says the evidence that violent video games make children more aggressive is stronger even than evidence on the dangers of passive smoking and the benefits of doing homework.

Professor Anderson, an expert on children and video violence, is the key speaker at a seminar tomorrow organised by Young Media Australia, and later at an international conference organised by the Office of Film and Literature Classification.

"We can say with clarity that children exposed to a lot of entertainment violence grow up to be more aggressive adults," he said. "And that's even when you control for all kinds of variables such as parental aggression, temperament, education and income."

Professor Anderson said research on video game violence was less extensive than on the effects of TV and film violence. But he reviewed 46 independent tests of the effects of video games, 16 specifically on children, and found the evidence conclusive: playing violent video games caused significant increases in aggression both in the short term and the long term.

"It's imperative for parents to control their children's media diets," he says. "It can be a daunting task, especially for parents whose computer skills are considerably inferior to those of their children."

To parents who say total control is impossible, he insists: "It is difficult to control what your child eats when at a friend's house, but the solution is not to abandon your parental responsibility to provide nutritious meals at home."

Any step taken to reduce exposure to video violence was beneficial, since it was repeated exposure that produced negative effects, he said.

His own children, now aged 20 and 13, had been raised on a diet of non-violent, educational, "fun" games carefully pre-screened to ensure labels such as "action", "comic mischief" or "teen" were not covers for violence. Even videos based on cartoon characters could contain unacceptable violence.


This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/09/...2902057257.html

jabbahunt,Nov 3 2003, 08:44 PM Wrote:Yet.

Quote:Harris and Klebold enjoyed playing the bloody, shoot-'em-up video game Doom, a game licensed by the U.S. military to train soldiers to effectively kill.

Quote:In the video, Harris and Klebold dress in trench coats, carry guns, and kill school athletes.

Quote:my brother in laws son cant play CS because when he did after he was done playing it he would lash out at his sister

Quote:One study reveals that young men who are habitually aggressive may be especially vulnerable to the aggression-enhancing effects of repeated exposure to violent games

Quote:We also found that amount of time spent playing video games in the past was associated with lower academic grades in college

Quote:Violent video games provide a forum for learning and practicing aggressive solutions to conflict situations

Quote:Violent content by itself, however, in the absence of another provocation, is likely to have little direct impact on affect