Violent music and video games have long been blamed for everything from the Columbine shootings to teen depression. That argument's been smacked around more than my wife (for the record, I don't have a wife … and probably never will now), but I'm going to take it a step further and turn it back on those same conservative naysayers.
What people need to be wary of isn't forms of media that present themselves honestly as pure detachment and fantasy but ones that earnestly attempt to simulate reality and influence the way we behave. While people complain about the damage that games like Doom did to our youth, they ignore the possibility that the real evil came in the guise of more "educational" games.
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