DAVID CAMERON ON CRIME AND VIDEO GAMES

So David Cameron, the Conservative party leader, has reverted to Eighties thinking, blaming the rise of violence in the UK on video games, music and films. The Conservatives have just released a paper called ‘It’s Time To Fight Back’ which argues that depictions of ‘extreme, casual and callous violence’ have a ‘coarsening effect on the ethical sensibility of young people’. But his argument has already been dismissed by experts in the field, including one Prof Jeffrey Goldstein who responded saying that there was no link between mock violence in video games and real-life crime.

What do you guys think? Do you think that there is any link between in-game and real-life violence? Do you think the violence in computer games numbs you to reality? Or do you think this is a tired old argument and yet again they are looking for the answers in the wrong place? Let us know…