Comments on: The Reality of True Crime http://www.readermeetauthor.com/2006/09/07/the-reality-of-true-crime/ "Have you ever escaped from a shipwrecked life..." Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:08:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Derick http://www.readermeetauthor.com/2006/09/07/the-reality-of-true-crime/#comment-246 Derick Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:17:20 +0000 http://readermeetauthor.com.customers.tigertech.net/?p=165#comment-246 "This doesn’t necessarily mean he or she is going to actually punch someone…I hope." I'm right there with ya! But if that child does lash out I'd be more interested in their upbringing and less about what video games they played. “This doesn’t necessarily mean he or she is going to actually punch someone…I hope.”

I’m right there with ya! But if that child does lash out I’d be more interested in their upbringing and less about what video games they played.

]]> By: MY http://www.readermeetauthor.com/2006/09/07/the-reality-of-true-crime/#comment-247 MY Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:06:34 +0000 http://readermeetauthor.com.customers.tigertech.net/?p=165#comment-247 Agree. Even some actors and actresses have admitted that they chose acting because they are able to do things that they are afraid of doing in real life, such as shooting people or doing brain surgery on patients. Do these actors or actresses turn into bad people after they finish filming a bad guy film? Of course not. The same idea goes with video games. The kid may punch the living daylights out of someone on the screen, which may help relief the pressure from something that happened at school. This doesn't necessarily mean he or she is going to actually punch someone...I hope. Agree. Even some actors and actresses have admitted that they chose acting because they are able to do things that they are afraid of doing in real life, such as shooting people or doing brain surgery on patients. Do these actors or actresses turn into bad people after they finish filming a bad guy film? Of course not.

The same idea goes with video games. The kid may punch the living daylights out of someone on the screen, which may help relief the pressure from something that happened at school. This doesn’t necessarily mean he or she is going to actually punch someone…I hope.

]]> By: Reader Meet Author - » The Reality of True Crime F/U http://www.readermeetauthor.com/2006/09/07/the-reality-of-true-crime/#comment-245 Reader Meet Author - » The Reality of True Crime F/U Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:39:43 +0000 http://readermeetauthor.com.customers.tigertech.net/?p=165#comment-245 [...] On September 7 I wrote a post called The Reality of True Crime about video games and violence. By now we’ve all probably heard about the shooting in Montreal that recently occurred. Guess what? [...] [...] On September 7 I wrote a post called The Reality of True Crime about video games and violence. By now we’ve all probably heard about the shooting in Montreal that recently occurred. Guess what? [...]

]]> By: Derick http://www.readermeetauthor.com/2006/09/07/the-reality-of-true-crime/#comment-244 Derick Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:13:41 +0000 http://readermeetauthor.com.customers.tigertech.net/?p=165#comment-244 <i>Melissa said, "for the most part our kids are capable of understanding what is reality and what’s not"</i> Exactly! And if they aren't able to figure the difference out, there's mostly likely <b>something else</b> at play... not a video game or television show. Melissa said, “for the most part our kids are capable of understanding what is reality and what’s not”

Exactly! And if they aren’t able to figure the difference out, there’s mostly likely something else at play… not a video game or television show.

]]> By: Melissa http://www.readermeetauthor.com/2006/09/07/the-reality-of-true-crime/#comment-243 Melissa Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:02:31 +0000 http://readermeetauthor.com.customers.tigertech.net/?p=165#comment-243 Right on, brotha! I get so tired of hearing about how video games and t.v. are ruining our children. It's MY job to teach MY children that what they see on the television screen is, in most cases, fiction. I have to make sure that they know it's not okay to bitch-slap the next person that looks at them sideways, even if it is fun to do on the game or funny to see done in a movie. My boys play 'violent' games, they like to beat people up or drive like a maniac, but they know that we don’t do that in real life. I’ll even admit to playing a little Grand Theft Auto and getting a kick out of stealing cars and running from the cops but I wouldn’t dream of jacking a car on the way to work and running over the owner. I don’t think kids learn violence from what happens on the screen but what happens in their own home or on the street in front of their house. I’m sure there are exceptions, in instances of mental retardation or mental illness, but for the most part our kids are capable of understanding what is reality and what’s not. We just have to make sure that we teach them through our actions and our words. Right on, brotha! I get so tired of hearing about how video games and t.v. are ruining our children. It’s MY job to teach MY children that what they see on the television screen is, in most cases, fiction. I have to make sure that they know it’s not okay to bitch-slap the next person that looks at them sideways, even if it is fun to do on the game or funny to see done in a movie.

My boys play ‘violent’ games, they like to beat people up or drive like a maniac, but they know that we don’t do that in real life. I’ll even admit to playing a little Grand Theft Auto and getting a kick out of stealing cars and running from the cops but I wouldn’t dream of jacking a car on the way to work and running over the owner. I don’t think kids learn violence from what happens on the screen but what happens in their own home or on the street in front of their house. I’m sure there are exceptions, in instances of mental retardation or mental illness, but for the most part our kids are capable of understanding what is reality and what’s not. We just have to make sure that we teach them through our actions and our words.

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