Can we like talk about the scapegoating of video games?
So we all know what happened these past couple of days. While I know that those affected are facing probably the most serious tragedy they have faced in their lives, the thing that irks me is the fact that the mass media and the government are so quick to point at and blame video games. Like, why?!
Is it because it's just that easy to blame a game rather than blame the adults who raised the kid, the environment in which the kid grew up, or even the friends they surrounded themselves with?
Why is it that video games are so easily demonized just because the kid played Roblox or FPS games, and it is immediately turned into a fact that that's why the kid committed the atrocity?
And the argument proposed by the ones who push this agenda, being that "video games are interactive and amplify violence within children and radicalize them," is just shallow and lazy in this type of situation.
I mean, just look at the incident in Tacloban, where people are so quick to point and blame video games, when the fact is that the adults who raised those kids were just awful and irresponsible for giving them early access to firearms.
Maybe instead of barking at the wrong tree, this country and its people should face the root of the problem before an event as horrible as a school shooting is treated like a climate-based disaster, like in the USA, where school shootings are rare, which they should be, but not rare enough that our Department of Education has to implement drills and measures to protect our kids.
I don't know, man. This country just has its priorities messed up.