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[Kaelaron]

Okay, so I read this thing about Global Warming today, and all the things we(as in everyone), are doing to help put an end to it. And it also made me think of people blaming violence on video games, movies, TV and music these days...why? Because the two seperate trains merged onto the same track.

I see all this stuff about new biofuels, not just to help us get more energy, but because it's "greener". And people are doing a lot to help clean up the environment to help put a stop to global warming. Going out of their way to stop using so much energy/water/etc...and I heard an argument once that said, "It's better to do this and be safe, than sorry for not having done it later." His argument was, "What if what we do saves us from it? What if it happens and we do nothing?"

Here's my argument...I agree, let's clean up a bit...be a little neater and tidier...simply because no one wants to see all that trash everywhere, and animals can be hurt by any number of it. But now here's a kicker...every so often...thousands of years...or millions...the world goes through MASSIVE changes....ice ages proved this. What if global warming isn't us? What if the world is going through ANOTHER massive change...? We stop doing everything we're doing, and the world continues to heat up...what then? What and who do we blame? Nothing changed, even though we did. What will happen then? Things may well get worse for us because people think that stopping everything will ALEVIATE the problem. THis may not be the case at all.

Now, for violence in video games, movies, TV and music....we've all heard it. "The violence in movies is making people violent!" "Video games force people to act violently without knowing what they are doing." "SlipKnot music forced these two innocent teenagers to murder one of their peers, because the lyrics were graphic!" "The television is the primary source of violence in America." I'm almost positive everyone's heard at least one of those, if not all of them. All of those have ACTUALLY been said, sometimes not in those exact words, but damn close.

Okay, fine...there might be a lot of violence in that stuff....but what happens when they take it all away, and nothing changes? Finally driving away all the enjoyable things we do. What and who do they blame then? Books? Do we start burning books like Hitler? After that? What's next? Everything is gone...people get bored...TERRIBLY bored...they start going stir crazy at the lack of being able to occupy themselves....when that happens, what's next? Random acts of violence...people start going off for no reason...why? No place to vent anything...no video games to help vent any urges or irritations, no movies to watch to escape for a bit...no TV to entertain....no music to soothe the savage breast...people get worse. Let's look back in time too....humans have been through wars for THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of years. Dating back to the cavemen. Let's look a little further ahead than cavemen...Vlad the Impaler...a Baron who murdered his enemies for fun, and drank their blood(this is where the rumors of vampires were supposedly first started.) Do you think video games made him do that? I doubt it. There weren't any back then. Around a similar time period....the Countess. She kidnapped female virgins from near-by towns, and dragged them into her dungeon, where she bathed in their blood because she believed the blood of a virgin could rejuvinate her skin, and keep her youthful and beautiful forever. This is true. Did video games do that? Movies? Music? TV? Doubtful.

Hitler killed thousands of innocent Jewish people in internment camps...did movies cause this? I doubt it. Stallin was practically the same in ruthlessness...he firmly believed; "If you kill 1, it is a tragedy, if you kill 1,000,000 it is a statistic." I doubt any TV show today could give ANYONE that kind of ideal.

So let's hear from constructive criticism, some objective opinions, and let's bad minton this around a little bit, and see if we can't maybe figure out whether I'm just insane for thinking like this...or if what I see these people doing as insane is more along the lines of sanity.

[Esichs]

On the first part, I'm inclined to believe that Global Warming isn't as a big of an issue as every one makes it out to be. Yeah, we're hurting the environment, and believe it or not the United States is not the worst factor in this. But, I don't think it's to the point were we're going to see a "Day After Tomorrow" After reading meteorological reports from the past and comparing to the present, I'm inclined to believe the earth is warming up on its own, with only a slight damaging factor created by us. We did just start coming out of a second light "Ice Age" only a few hundred years ago, right? But, I agree. I'm for cleaning up the earth, not to avoid some supposed global disaster for which evidence of is still critically laking, but because this is the only world we have. Its our home.


And for the second part, I blame the parents for not teaching their kids better. In some cases though, after psychological study, it was found that the person in question had a predisposition towards violence, and in MOST cases it was because no one was paying attention enough to notice the sort of signs that point to eventual violence. Allot of this kind of stuff happens because people don't want to stop and listen. A single ear directed at a single mouth can make all the difference in the world to some one.

These people often times are dealing with allot of stress. Bullies, school conformity issues, often times puberty. All this stress build up, and with no one to talk so they begin finding outlets. With todays technology, allot of those outlets have become video games. And with many of the more popular ones being so graphic and violent, its no doubt your guaranteed to find a copy Doom 3 or Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in the list of games.[I only recently got a 36O...so I'm not familiar with too many of that systems violent games beyond Clive Barker's Jericho or Condemned 2 , I'm just quoting games that have been...infamous with the media.]Blowing away demons and random pedestrians really is a good stress reliever, let me tell you -_-.

The point here though is that video games, movies, and music arn't to blame...the people closest to these are.