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Growing up through the D&D panic and experienced the first-person shooter makes you a killer or GTA makes you violent nonsense, nothing recent compares to the D
by talmand 13y ago
Growing up through the D&D panic and experienced the first-person shooter makes you a killer or GTA makes you violent nonsense, nothing recent compares to the D&D panic.
There's a severe difference between people thinking a video game will make you anti-social, violent, or a killer and people being concerned over your immortal soul. Keep in mind, D&D was going to make you summon demons, have blood sacrifices to pagan gods, commit suicide, and then after all that evil you were going to burn in Hell forever.
As there is something to what you say in comparing environmental panics but most of the time that was often based on something real that was then overblown, taken out of context, or misunderstood. Acid rain and the ozone hole turned out to be not as bad as some were predicting, but they were real. Summoning demons is not.
That and the more recent nonsense over video games possibly causing anti-social behavior cannot even come close in comparison.