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Lizzie_B
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 Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 12:34 am
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| FloozyGod wrote: | Japan is second if not the greatest producer of video games while also having one of the lowest crime rates in the world, where is this guy coming from  |
Yet they have the highest suicides in the world
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BodaciousSpacePirate
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 1:02 am
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relyat08
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 1:03 am
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| Lizzie_B wrote: |
| FloozyGod wrote: | Japan is second if not the greatest producer of video games while also having one of the lowest crime rates in the world, where is this guy coming from |
Yet they have the highest suicides in the world |
I don't know how that's relevant, to be honest. But there are a lot of reasons for their suicide rate, and it also has nothing to do with anime or video games. I would imagine that anime and video games have likely helped prevent a lot of suicide though. I know that these hobbies have helped me through a number of very rough patches.
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Lord of Fire
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 1:34 am
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| Drunk wrote: | | While it is wrong to put the blame on video games/anime/and so on, people still should stop acting like media has no influence at all. |
I don't think anyone is denying that, but like I said earlier, the vast majority of people do not become killers from playing violent games, or watching an anime full of violence, blood and gore, nor does consumption of highly sexualized media turn everyone into rapists. It could even be argued that it does the exact opposite, as this type of media can act as an outlet for people who may indeed have certain issues.
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Mr. Oshawott
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 2:18 am
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Last time I checked, there has, so far, no existing evidence of gaming and/or anime (or any TV show) have any links to violent crime. By this logic, I could be judged as a murderer simply because I'm playing Call of Duty. That's a world I hope I'll never live to see: that I could be viewed as a dangerous person simply due to myself playing a gaming title involving extreme violence.
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Lynx Raven Raide
Joined: 01 Nov 2017
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Location: Central Coast, AU
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 2:40 am
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I used to get pissed off with this kind of attitude, but now I'm starting to see a sense of irony in that a lot of the stuff is inspired by real life things, the whole life imitating art imitating life thing. I was talking with my dad the other day about Criminal Minds and he made the comment that they are writing the playbook for whackjobs, when a lot of the stuff is inspired by the whackjobs. There is enough information out there on historical serial killers and mass murderers that they dont need anime or games for inspiration. If their mind is that way inclined they would find the inspiration regardless
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Jonny Mendes
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 5:34 am
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| Lizzie_B wrote: | |
Yet they have the highest suicides in the world |
Nope, according to the World Health Organization #25 in suicide rates.In industrialized countries #2 behind South Korea and just in front of Finland and Sweden.
This guy is a usual Politician. Using any crime to push their own views. It doesn't matter if they are liberal on conservative, left or right or center, all politicians do that.
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catsspat
Joined: 04 Jul 2007
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Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 7:53 am
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Thanks you all. I'll be here all day.
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Compelled to Reply
Joined: 14 Jan 2017
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 12:21 pm
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| Kougeru wrote: | | Don't like the name of his party fool you. The "Liberal" Democratic Party of Japan is a heavily conservative party. This lines up perfectly with what should be expected of that mindset. |
"Liberal" means something different outside of the United States. The term became associated with the left in the 1960s, when they decided to appropriate it as a rebranding of progressivism, which itself is ultimately contrary to what the name implies.
The LDP actually had a strong "liberal" faction, considering it was the dominant political party between when the Social Democratic Party went full socialist and when politicians of said factions splintered into what is now the Constitutional Democratic Party. Even today, the LDP's platform can somewhat be left-leaning, as with other right-wing foreign parties like Conservatives in the U.K., compared to the Republican Party in the U.S. Also, as I alluded to about the SDPJ, left-wing parties tend to be borderline or full-blown socialists even compared to the Democrat Party.
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Supermutant
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 1:27 pm
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Doesn't matter if its Anime or Comic Books or Video Games or Movies or TV or Rock N Roll Music. There is evil in the world. You can scrub the world of all the above, guns, etc there will still be evil. Still be crime. There was before they existed. Doesn't matter who blames it if its American or Japanese its very very stupid either way.
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BadNewsBlues
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:11 pm
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| Lord Oink wrote: | | I dunno, calling games and anime violent or sexist is a pretty liberal tactic. |
And yet no more problematic than whining about the inclusion of gays or minorities (or using slurs associated with these groups), strong independent women, and politicizing things....which "in the U.S." is a conservative tactic.
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Mohawk52
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:42 pm
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| Lizzie_B wrote: |
| FloozyGod wrote: | Japan is second if not the greatest producer of video games while also having one of the lowest crime rates in the world, where is this guy coming from |
Yet they have the highest suicides in the world |
No that's mostly a religous thing. Sort of like a way of rebooting your life when it it gets corrupted or locks up and crashes into the BSOD. They play games and watch uplifting anime to try to avoid all that. wink:
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R315r4z0r
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 8:20 pm
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I don't know about games and anime... but I do know one sure thing that DOES directly contribute to violent crimes: politics.
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Mr. Oshawott
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 8:38 pm
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| R315r4z0r wrote: | | I don't know about games and anime... but I do know one sure thing that DOES directly contribute to violent crimes: politics. |
...as well as mainstream news channels using media hype to induce polarization on even mundane/minor subjects.
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penguintruth
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 8:43 pm
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Breaking news: Politician finds easy scapegoat for a non-problem (Japan being one of the least violent countries). Film at eleven.
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