Video Games
I’m too old to play video games. Or so some people say. And FPS games are too violent, are somehow culpable in mass shootings and other senseless acts of violence and should be banned, because hey, thinking is too hard and citing nonsensical metrics to try and validate one’s ignorance is much easier than providing actual real-world data to support one’s statement. Do mass shooters play violent video games? Some undoubtedly do. But that’s not to say that there’s a correlation between the two. And engaging in one certainly does not invariably lead to the other. You might be a regular kingpin on the player stats screen of your favorite multiplayer game, but that certainly wouldn’t make you Rambo in real-life. You’d go down faster than a destitute sex worker. In fact, you’d more than likely drop like a bag of shit in a real battle if you tried going Counter-Strike on the enemy’s ass. There have been half-baked hip-hop albums ...