Then please explain how people that are not exposed to any of these influences end up being serial killers and other people that are exposed to all of them do not.baldeagle wrote:Oh come on. Humans don't live in a vacuum. Your surroundings influence your actions. It's ludicrous to think that you act completely independently of the influences that surround you on a daily basis.android wrote:
Scientifically, it is easily proven that movies and video games are not the cause. All you have to do is point to one person that has not gone on a killing rampage from watching violent movies and playing violent video games. There are in fact millions of people that don't commit crimes that do so. Of course nobody wants to talk about them, it's not sensational enough.
A cause is universal or it is not the cause.
Now you could also try to point out that A + B + C + D = violent behavior, but I bet for every A, B, C & D, I could also point out somebody that was exposed to those factors and still did not commit violent acts.
The problems are with the actor, not the outside influences.
Did violent killers not exist prior to the invention of video games and the cinema? That is news to me. Perhaps you'll offer up that they were desensitized to violence by the traveling Punch & Judy puppet show? That still doesn't explain violent behavior prior to the 1600s.