This month’s GameInformer magazine has an interview with Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller fame, where he talks a bit about videogame violence.
My favorite snippet (since Syp already has dibs on “Quote of the Day”) is:
The truth of the matter is there have been so many popular songs that have been about peace and love, and they haven’t turned the world into complete peace and love. Violence still happens. So the bad news is, you can’t just put out “All You Need Is Love” by the Beatles and get world peace, and the good news is that first-person shooters don’t turn people into killers.
The topic of violence in games and society continues for three paragraphs. Good stuff, and similar arguments to what gamers and anyone who knows what they’re actually talking about uses to counter the media and clueless conservatives who think all gamers are sociopaths in the making, but it’s nice to hear it coming from a celebrity and non-gamer too.
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It’s a great interview, really liked what he had to say.
I think I’d prefer some scientific test done, rather than peoples assertions.
Something along the lines of a blind test, where some kids play violent games for X time, then without their knowledge you put them in a situation where shoving some other kid will get them something good (and no parents around at the time). Also do another batch of kids playing goody two shoe nice games, then put them in that situation. Record results, release results.