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Violence in books is textual, so it's going to be far less vivid for the reader than a video game where you actually cause the violence. Additionally, violent b
by rhdoenges 14y ago
Violence in books is textual, so it's going to be far less vivid for the reader than a video game where you actually cause the violence. Additionally, violent books/conversations/thoughts/lectures often focus on the negative aspects of violence rather than glorifying it the way movies and video games do.
- jlgreco 14y agoEver read American Psycho? Honestly far more disturbing than any game I have ever seen.
- r0s 14y agoSome would disagree: http://www.merrycoz.org/yc/BADLIT.HTM http://www.merrycoz.org/yc/BADLIT.HTM It's a familiar horse to beat, this NEW media is special, and different and scary. It happened with jazz, rock&roll, comic books, movies, novels, heavy metal, many scapegoat has met the whip of the righteously ignorant. It's always been a meaningless argument, totally void of scientific fact. Were there wars before fiction? Was there crime before video games?