| I apologize for the double post, but I reached the character limit.
I have to say, WTF? This is a strongly flawed theory, in my opinion.
1) If it involved Rape, Murder, etc. then it was clearly by the DM's decision! No person has to include this in there game, they can have a perfectly clean game. If such a twisted person began playing the game, he was twisted in the first place, not by D&D.
2) What about rituals and demons? For god's sakes, these people acted out a ritual-- Which may or may not have been real-- For the game's sake. No one is forced to act these out, they did it at their own expense. D&D didn't 'make them do it.'
3) Okay, they name about a dozen suicides/murders by D&D players. What about all the suicides and murders by people who didn't play D&D? Did D&D make them do it? I don't think so. Just because these people did something unjustified, or EVEN if they did it because of D&D, doesn't mean everyone will. It states that it will, though people have will power.
4) Christians cannot do anything to do with evil. Sonic has evil villains. Mario has evil villains. Hell, doesn't My Little Pony have a witch or something? There is, ultimately no way to decide something doesn't have evil in it. Everything has a drop of evil in it. They could right something on how Dora the Explorer is satanic! I wouldn't be surprised if they have.
5) They blamed Comics for murders in the 50's, Rock and Roll in the 60's, D&D in the 70's, and so on until they blame video games now. They're covering up the real problems, such as pills which work roughly 10% of the time, the goverment itself, and news. The problem is that the goverment gets funds from drug companies and news corporations, so they blame video games and D&D because most voters don't play video games/D&D, and no congressmen play them. So democrats and republicans keep introducing anti-gaming legislation.
But, I would like to see your opinion on the matter. |