Response to "Video Game Violence"
Authored by kcm
Formatted for web by Travis Love
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I'm probably waaaayyy too tired to be intelligently
commenting on this, but I'm going to attempt it anyway.

Travis, you are very good at being persuasive.  You do
a good job of using strong language and almost
irrefutable logic.  Almost.

I disagree with your example of burning books and
censoring movies.  Though I can understand the
movies, because it is showing the violence, they are
rated and most parents are more cautious about the
ratings of the movies their kids see than the video
games their kids play.  At least, I think so.  But
books don't even show visual images of violence.  And
most violence is necessary in literature.  I can prove
it to you - I wrote a novel paper on that question.
And in both of these, it is not the player inflicting
the violence.  In video games, it is the player
committing the acts of violence, not just witnessing
them.  This could psychologically influence a person
much more drastically than seeing or imagining while
reading about violence.

However, it was a very well written article.  I liked
your hook; it was creative.  Though I disagree with
some things you said, I like how you said them.