This article comes disturbingly close to reminding me of A Clockwork Orange. I’ve never been one to blame the media, video games, or movies for encouraging this sort of violence, regardless of what evidence people have presented thus far. I really see no sole definitive connection between the violence of popular media and the violence of modern teenagers. While I have no doubt that popular media has an impact on society, which in turn influences the behavior of today’s youth, violent video games cannot be expected to bear the lion’s share of responsibility for this sort of thing. In that same vein, neither can the parents of these violent kids. This article reported that most of the kids involved in these attacks were from middle class families with no serious family problems. So this begs the questions, where do these tendencies come from. Is it boredom, peer pressure, or does the blame truly fall on the shoulders of the parents and popular media? I think it’s a lack of responsibility on these kids. In my opinion, everyone has an inborn sense of basic morality; obviously there are grey areas, but even a 15 year old should see in black and white that kill
ing is bad. A video game is clearly not reality, when you beat someone to death in real life there are no do-overs. Shit like this makes me want to smack these kids for being so goddamn irresponsible. It’s not brain surgery, get a hobby.
"Just leave the old ultraviolence up to me and me droogs."
