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Republican policy strikes me as devoid of data. During the election I really tried to understand their policy positions. But failed to find reasoned or rational
by josho 9y ago
Republican policy strikes me as devoid of data. During the election I really tried to understand their policy positions. But failed to find reasoned or rational arguments for their positions.
- paulddraper 9y agoUh huh. And what is your data? (1) IDK what the parent precisely meant by "killing sprees", but there are statistics for acts of terrorism. And the US is hardly exceeds the norm. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_terrorist_incidents_by_country https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_terrorist_incident... For example, even sticking to first world Western nations, in 2015 the UK had 3x the terrorism incidents and France had 4x the terrorism deaths as the US. (Note the US has over twice the population of these other two counties combined). (2) FWIW the American Psychology Association says "The research demonstrates a consistent relation between violent video game use and heightened aggressive behavior, aggressive cognitions, and aggressive affect and reduced prosocial behavior, empathy and sensitivity to aggression." Abscribing this idea to lazy Republicans is wrong.
- pjc50 9y ago"Killing sprees" refers to mass shooting incidents such as at Stoneman Douglas High School. These aren't counted in those statistics, which makes them highly misleading - they just refer to "terrorism", which is political and exactly the sort of thing to be completely unrelated to video games. The majority of those deaths in France in 2015 were from the Bataclan incident carried out by ISIL.
- paulddraper 9y agoMass shootings is pretty arbitrary. It doesn't really matter if you die by bullet, car, or bomb.