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Originally Posted by Air&Road
The shooting was bad enough, but what I heard yesterday morning, makes for even MORE concern.
I saw an interview with a Lt Colonel who has spent much of his career teaching Psychology at West Point. I got the idea that part of his curriculum had to do with things like desensitization in combat and the stresses of combat and things such as that.
He was VERY passionate and what he had to say made me pray that he is wrong, but he seems like someone who knows what he's talking about. He said that due to the desensitization toward killing that is becoming more prevalant by video games and other forces in society, that what we saw at Sandy Hook and the other shootings in recent years is just the beginning and that this sort of thing will be accelerating dramatically.
We all need to hope that this guy is WRONG, but I'm afraid he might be right.
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Very much along the lines that prompted my post a few pages back.
WE are the ones who buy those games for our kids. ( WE, meaning adults-not me personally, or likely you, personally) Those violent games have a tremendous market--they wouldn't make them if they didn't sell.
Is it time to take a serious look at the so-called entertainment industry, and the way they are desensitizing entire generations?
But its not just the entertainment industry. Our society sends many messages that life is cheap, and of little value. We accept hundreds of murders a year in major cities because it is only one drug lord killing off another drug lord, or dealer True, maybe, but it still sends the message that those lives are not important. We abort millions of babies--that also sends a message about the value of human life--we organize to save the whales, but kill the humans.
We are reaping what we, as a culture, has sown
Maybe the world SHOULD end this week!