Whilst I can’t be bothered to look it up on my phone - we have hard data that disproves this link, last I checked.
Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent
Submitted 5 months ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to games@lemmy.world
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Flamekebab@piefed.social 5 months ago
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I think it’s your cartels, bro
rafoix@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Those cartels have been playing M rated pong since the 1970s.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There’s also been moves to ban narco culture.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
So, ban itself? You can’t hire corruption to clean out corruption.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Yeah.
I can’t speak to Mexico. But, at least in the US, video games very much have been a pipeline for both rehabilitation of the military’s image and direct recruitment. It is what leads to generations that believe tier ninety special force operators are the greatest people ever which both provides “They know what they are doing and have their reasons” and “I want to be one of those”
I am not aware of any cartel friendly games (unless you REALLY disliked Fifty Cent, I guess?) but I wouldn’t immediately rule this out IF it is part of a wider media push.
pathos@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Japan and Korea must be wastelands
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The angriest person I ever saw playing video games was my brother playing Madden when he was younger. Model straight A student, calm person in everything else, very unlikely to ever get in a fight, went to to have a good career, good father, never been arrested or even gets traffic tickets… Yet if video game competitiveness while a teenager was an actual tie to judging if a person was violent in their real life… I think banning all sports games/possibly all competitive sports should be higher up their list.
When’s the next time you will see someone physically hit someone in a manner outside the rules/laws. Every given Sunday in the NFL. Saturday in the NCAA… probably won’t even make it that far, is there an NBA, MLB, NHL, or other such physic sports game in today? Competitive wrestlers are known to shove a finger up someone else’s ass if they think a referee can’t see it for a competitive advantage. Football intentionally kneeing people in the ribs or trying to poke people in the eyes when they are in the piles. Most of the fights we see break out stem from cheap shots and rule breaking happening when a referee can’t see, not just shit talking.
If these are the things players are taught and do, why would it be okay to teach kids to play these sports as little kids… Probably because they know theit kids aren’t randomly forcing their finger up someones ass or kneeing someone in the head when they go into the office. Different mindsets
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How many Catholics in that country? They get taxed?
Greddan@feddit.org 5 months ago
Cultists have no place in governments.
Lembot_0005@lemy.lol 5 months ago
It is taxation that makes people violent, not games.
obinice@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I played Stardew Valley and suddenly had the overwhelming urge to kill local shopkeepers.
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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nah, Pierre deserved it
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh come on, mexican government! You’re better than this! In the 1950s parents said Elvis and his rock and roll music were corrupting the youth. So music was the tool of satan. Surprise surprise, total bullshit.
In the 1970s, skateboarding and hanging out in the malls were corrupting the youth. Surprise surprise, total bullshit.
In the 1990s, video games were corrupting the youth. Surprise surprise, total bullshit.
In the 2010s, social media was corrupting the youth. Surprise surprise, total bullshit. At least at that time. Today social media is highly manipulated TO INTENTIONALLY be corruptive, but not so much in the days of vine.
And now today, video games are corrupting the youth and making them violent. See Mexico? You can do better. This is a rerun and you know it. But fear not. I know a bigger problem that is corrupting not only the youth, but also adults, and even the elderly. You wanna know what the real problem in society is? Let ME have a go…
Religion is corrupting the humans! They’re starting wars because an invisable man in the sky told them to. Two sides each argueing that their version of the invisable man is the REAL magical invisable man.
Billions of people have died over the centuries. It is without a doubt the biggest source of corruption any society has ever faced.
In addition to all the violence, there’s also rapist priests. And money laundering. And at one time crusades to force their religion on an unwilling population.
But sure. Little 10 year old Jose is getting violent because he played mortal kombat. Couldn’t have anything to do with that chaotic and toxic home life watching his alcoholic father beat his mother, right?
Religion is corrupting the humans. What POSSIBLE rebuttal could anyone have to that?
insufferableninja@piefed.social 5 months ago
Humans are violent apes. There’s nothing “making” us violent, it’s just what we are
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Religion by itself does not cause humanity to do wars. Most of the time it’s just an excuse to declare themselves superior or invade another country.
It’s not religion, it’s the power that comes from it.
MotoAsh@piefed.social 5 months ago
Definitely both. Training people to believe things without evidence, or worse, “because I said so”, is in fact bad for humanity.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fuckin hell, thought this shit had finally gone away in the 00s. It’s the 90s all over again. 🙄