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Journal Journal: Is Digital Media to Blame for Problems

People of today blame video games, and the Internet for the increasing violence. They say that the Internet forms detachment from the world and its people. However I believe it does exactly the opposite of that, in my opinion it joins and unites people. People when speaking on the Net don't have the physical dividers that may make friendships or even conversations unlikely to happen. Factors such as skin color, ethnicity, appearance, social class and a lot of other factors are all irrelevant on the Internet. Thus these biases no longer segregate and divide us. This allows people with same interests to join and talk, not separating them but instead uniting them.

About the video games true there are some pointless games out there, but as I stated earlier in one of my blogs that I titled "What is Life Coming to?" speaks about that. Let me just restate it is not the game designers fault that the person is unstable, most likely there lays more problems in the chemistry of the individual's brain then anything else. Anyhow some games I've noticed teach valuable morals; I find that the RPG (Role Playing Game) have easier to spot morals then others. I'm not so sure what I can say about games such as Grand Theft Auto as having morals but then again I never played it nor want to as it appears to have no story line what so ever so I'll just stay off that. But they never say in that game that it is a legal or fun thing to do in real life. Anyhow back to the point most games that have a story line no matter how horrid it may be usually may have some meaning or moral in there.

Here are some examples. In the game The Legend of Dragoon which is an RPG one of the main focuses is that revenge solves nothing; instead of looking to the past and its bad events look to the future to the brighter stuff. Final Fantasy VII proved that teamwork is the best way to go. Both games show that anything is possible to achieve if you put your mind to it and work hard. Yes even if it seems imposable it all will pay off.

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Journal Journal: What Life Comming To? 1

Have you noticed the world has become a more violent and scary place then what it was when my mom was a child. I often find my self pondering as to why this may be... I mean I am not quite sure about the video game blame, I think that was made to be an easy way out of trouble and I personally call it "Blame Shifting" Why? Becuase they can't take the responsibility of their action. I mean induviduals should know that games are NOT real and that what is fun and able to be done in games usually should not be done in real life, scratch the usually. They should just not be done in real life. It's not the game companies fault that some people can not tell reality from fantasy or have some psychological disorder that makes them a bit unstable. I mean where does it say "Steal a car. Go kill people it will be all right with the law in real life." Where does it say that in the game I've never heard it but I suppose it could be possable, but not likely however.

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