Considering some of the ridiculous things people get censored over, I think they may be maniacs. In the US you can show people getting the skin torn from their bodies and that's fine but if a woman's nipple pops out in public it's a national emergency. To be clear, I have no problem with violence and gore in media but we have one of the strangest double standards in the world when it comes to censorship.
Our problem with this kind of violence isn't from video games, movies, music, guns or any quick fix, it's that we've become a weak willed culture. Kids are raised to believe that the world is supposed to bend to their will without any effort on their part and that if it doesn't then its okay to act out in violence. How many people in the US have seen kids throw temper tantrums and smack their parents and the only effect is that they get what they want just to calm them down. Now take someone that's already struggling mentally or emotionally and put them in that environment and this is exactly what happens. They never get the help they need and this never ends.
Most of our politicians, "journalists" and celebrities support this kind of behavior because they've found that telling people that everything about them is perfect is the quickest way to votes and fans. I can remember back in the 80's and 90's when every other week there was a news story about some other normal food that would kill you if you ate it. The problem wasn't with most of the foods that they were talking about, it was other factors, but its easier to point and say "Everyone that's ever died of a heart attack has eaten eggs in their lifetimes so eggs must cause heart attacks" than it is to actually work the problem, find the cause and fix that. Why tell people to get off their asses and exercise when you can just tell them that the heart attack was someones else's fault. Why try to cure cancer, when you can just have people change their diets and stay indoors. Why try to actually prevent violence when you can just keep pointing at random things that violent people have in common (because most people have those things in common) and blame that. It gets you quick votes and a nice pat on the head and you never actually have to do anything about it, which is great for the person that comes after you that wants to use the same tragedies to get ahead because they'll still be happening.
By their logic, if video games cause violence then so does breathing, drinking water and sleeping. And movies, ever wonder why politicians don't give violent movies the same treatment? Celebrities help them get elected so they don't want to anger them. It's not like it matters anyway because they know damn well that violence in media doesn't lead to real life violence anymore than buying star citizen is going to get me a real life space ship.....which sucks.
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