Teenager Kills Brother Over PlayStation Argument

[segio526]

The only reason this story gets attention is because a video game console is involved. This kid had a horrible upbringing. Who knows how many times this kid told his brother not to use his system (it could have been a TV, a comb, sneakers).

Also, you can't be addicted to video games. You can have a compulsive disorder that makes you want to do certain things for long periods of time. If this kid was around before video games, he could have been "addicted" to widdling, or digging holes, or killing small animals.

Finally, study after study after study has shown that violent video games (and movies) don't make people violent. In fact they have the opposite effect. Every time a violent video game (or movie) is released, violent crime rates go down. The phenomenon was first recorded in ancient Rome after opening the coliseum. Whenever there was a gladiator battle or a lion-eating-Christian or ship battle, there was less violent crime.

It's also true that violent people prefer violent media. Typically it acts as a release, but in some cases they draw inspiration from it. They would still be violent without it though.

I can't wait to see what new future technology or activity they try to pin violence on next.

 

[Hilarion]

More fodder for the "Darwin Awards"

But now there will be more idiots thinking that the "game" caused the problem instead of realizing that the kids had serious problems to begin with.

 

[christopherknapp]

[citation][nom]bloody llama[/nom]I think this would have happened even without the Playstation. The brother would have used the toaster, or borrowed a shirt, and the result would have been the same.[/citation]

I disagree. A toaster, or a T-Shirt, does not teach someone to become violent or take away from reality. Clearly he played too many games, and for too long of a time.

It would be interesting to see what games he was playing on his PS3, but something tells me that it was not Bubble Bobble.

 

[johnnyupgrade]

I hate reading headlines like this. His brother using the Playstation might have been the incident that set him off, but I'm sure there's so much more background to the story. The kid obviously had some psychological issues that would have manifested without video games.

Jack Thompson must be loving this.

 

[cronik93]

Wtf again???

 

[jacobdrj]

Oooooo... Shouldda played Crysis....

 

[sunzeal]

mostly this things happens in US, people are so dumb their

 

[HalJordan]

[citation][nom]sunzeal[/nom]mostly this things happens in US, people are so dumb their[/citation]

Pot, meet Kettle.

 

[jednx01]

...Just going to show that there are lots of morons out there in the world...

 

[eccentric909]

[citation][nom]NeeKo[/nom]Cant wait to see this generation 10 years from now..[/citation]

That is what every "generation" says about the next generation (along with, it'll be the downfall of us!). We use to kill people by throwing them to lions, stoning them to death, hunt down women declared to be "witches" because they showed an interest in learning/reading, sail our boats half way 'round the world and slaughter the native people there because they didn't believe in "god" (okay, well we still do that sometimes), find it perfectly acceptable to buy and sell people we enslaved through means of force and the list goes on... Now you're proclaiming that the next generation is going to be so awful and terrible, because we have a few people with mental issues running around?

Please. the "next generation" is not going to make the world any worse, and as we can see over the course of human history, things have tended to keep getting a little better as time goes on.

 

[sliem]

5 years for taking away what could possibly be 83 years or so. Oh my how fair... Don't worry though, once messed up in the head, it'll always be messed up. He will go in and out of prison for the rest of his ungrateful life.

 

[Guest]

damn, is it just me or are alot of these stories coming from Europe?

 

[Guest]

The article doesn't say if the adoptive parents had any idea or not if the kid was messed up in the head. Leaving a 16 year old and an 18 year old doesn't mean neglect on the part of the adoptive parents, only the biological parents.

But only facing 5 years for murder? I don't care if this kid is 16 years old, he took a freakin' life. This kid will NOT be rehibilitated to a great member of society later in life, he needs to be locked up for the rest of his life so people who are able to act decently to one another don't have to deal with people like that. Truly sad for the adoptive parents; to lose one son, and then basically lose the other because he is pyscho.

 

[HalJordan]

[citation][nom]Eccentric909[/nom]Please. the "next generation" is not going to make the world any worse, and as we can see over the course of human history, things have tended to keep getting a little better as time goes on.[/citation]

Wake up listening to "Walking on Sunshine" this morning? Seriously, we do need more optimism in the world.

The kid had issues, even an arm-chair psychiatrist can see that. Like others said, if it wasn't the PS that send him over the edge, then the toaster would have.

 

[piman]

"to lay the blame at the feet of video games is extremelly disingenuous and downright naive."

If you don't think that a kid playing violent games day and night that basically show them the way to deal with someone you don't agree with is to blow them away then it is you that is being "extremely disingenuous and downright naive"

 

[lotri]

Wow.. that's pretty extreme, and only 5 years?

 

[bv90andy]

first of all the number of people/children playing video games is growing with millions every year, so if ppl kill each other and it happens to be over/because of a video game it's because of that. This guys if they weren't adopted by this famaly would have died in the street because of stealing/fighting or whatever, which happens every day.

 

[ronch79]

Somebody stab that kid in the ass.

 

[presto311]

He was probably pretty surprised when his brother didn't respawn.

 

[Guest]

Can't believe what I am reading on some of these posts. So what, you get two seconds worth of reading in and suddenly you know everything about this kid? Really? Next you will tell me that Wikipedia is error free and that everything we read on the internet is true. Stupid.

Did video games cause this to happen? I don't know and I won't pretend to. I will say that playing violent games, whether it be killing zombies or butterflies, does continue to eat away at what morality we have left. And don't even try to intellectualize what this kid has done. It was an emotional response.

To Eccentric909...WHAT?! Have you stopped playing games long enough to step outside and see what's going on in the real world? At no other time in history have we been so close to wiping out the planet with all of the nukes, diseases, stressed economies, and power hungry factions. Seriously, you need to do a little research before making those kinds of statements.