No Rhyme No Reason

By Gib@CBO • February 16th, 2008

It’s not a game
By: Gilbert Purtee

The police will investigate, the professionals will hypothesize and others will just give an educated guess. Ultimately, we will never know why five students died in yet another school shooting.

On Fox News today, a medical doctor stated that a video game gave this mad man a virtual simulator where he could practice his violence before launching his attack. He proposed that the video game is to blame and added that the games are too violent, too realistic and too suggestive.

moh133221 This fine doctor is correct when he says the games are violent and realistic, but they are not real. I play video games myself. I enjoy combat, baseball and football. These games give me the opportunity to kill the bad guy and save our nation, to pitch in a World Series baseball game for the Atlanta Braves and I can coach the Dallas Cowboys through a perfect season (like that could happen). The game affords me the opportunity to be or do something I could never be or do in reality. Nevertheless, my mind knows that these things are not real, they are just scenarios in a game and the true gamer will agree.

The unhealthy mind in itself is suggestive. It can create a reality that is not real. It can twist truth into lies. It can convert love into hate. It can change silence into the screaming voices of thousands. When the mind is in this harmful state, not just video games are then corrupted. It is the television, the church, the marriage, the home and yes, the classroom that become entangled into this false reality.

Do not fault a game. Do not blame a gun. Do not guilt his parents. A sick mind did this. A highly irrational, twisted and distorted mind and that is all. No Rhyme No Reason.

My prayers uplift those who where victimized on February 14th, 2008. My condolences to those who lost loved ones. May God help you heal and forgive.

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This here was posted by Diane J. on February 16th, 2008 around 2:23 am

For what my opinion may be worth, I agree totally, Gib.

Good post, my friend.

This here was posted by Stan on February 16th, 2008 around 11:24 am

I agree. I am totally shocked by the folks that suggest that “video games make violent people” just as much as by the Christians that suggest “fictional books about witchcraft make witches”. When we have people that cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality, the fantasy is not the problem; the problem occurred before the fantasy came along.