Comment Re:Some questions (Score 1) 419
Did you stop, just for a second to think, "Wait a second, they don't have any such regulations in other places!" ? In Japan, violence in media isn't regulated period (in fact, there is no rating system for games whatsoever). Yet, their violence rate per capita is STILL much lower than ours. (Their suicide rate is much higher, however, but we all know that the catalyst for suicide is very different than that for violence.)
I'm not absolutely positive what drives the violence up, but I have a good idea -- people working for minimum wage trying to support a family, who are then told they're "useless" and "failures" because they never got a chance at a decent way of life. Rejected by all of social existence as far as you can see, wouldn't you feel compelled to destroy it? On a side note, I'd really like to see profiling of violent persons based on IQ.
I'm not absolutely positive what drives the violence up, but I have a good idea -- people working for minimum wage trying to support a family, who are then told they're "useless" and "failures" because they never got a chance at a decent way of life. Rejected by all of social existence as far as you can see, wouldn't you feel compelled to destroy it? On a side note, I'd really like to see profiling of violent persons based on IQ.
