The Oslo Massacre and the danger of damning a medium
VG247: The World of Warcraft habit of Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was presented as initial evidence in his trial yesterday. Julie Horup examines the fallout amid media demonisation of games.
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"here's a court of intelligent people discussing Breivik collecting carrots in World Of Warcraft."
just wow. I understand that prosecution may have used his WoW activities as evidence purely based upon the amount of time he spent playing the game (otherwise they should've have included MW2 as evidence), but still. calling WoW a violent game? really? way to make gaming look bad.
Well to be fair WoW only pops up (as Cod probably will to) because he spent time playing them.
And it's covered in the trial not because the court blames games, but because the prosecution is portraying his life and what he spent his time doing before the massacre.
Unfortunately some media will probably use this material in a sensationalist way...
Statistically this is true: Murder rates rise whenever ice cream sales rise. Just by looking at the numbers you'd have politicians wanting to ban ice cream, but it actually has to do with the time of the year (hotter months cause both to rise at the same time).
I can't wait until our generation replaces the current one so when some old lawyer tries to establish guilt by saying the accused played WoW, COD and GTA, the judge will be like, "So what? Half the people I know played those games and I have them over for dinner once a month"
The man is a joke, and if you mean the picture will be iconic as in pictures of Hitler are iconic your right.
He has his reasons, but what good are they? Most of what I read of him he has a very skewed world view. And he is extremely narcissistic, instead of becoming a martyr he chose to surrender to spread his propaganda further...
Well to be fair comparing ABB to Hitler isn't really right, he is more akin to someone like Timothy McVeigh or even Ted Kaczynski, both which he seems inspired by...
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"here's a court of intelligent people discussing Breivik collecting carrots in World Of Warcraft."
just wow. I understand that prosecution may have used his WoW activities as evidence purely based upon the amount of time he spent playing the game (otherwise they should've have included MW2 as evidence), but still. calling WoW a violent game? really? way to make gaming look bad.
And it's covered in the trial not because the court blames games, but because the prosecution is portraying his life and what he spent his time doing before the massacre.
Unfortunately some media will probably use this material in a sensationalist way...
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
He was also the following things:
Male
White
Norwegian
Be afraid.
The amount of players in World of Warcraft is more than a lot of countries, it's silly to blame the medium.
Quit demonizing games and make a real argument.
He has his reasons, but what good are they? Most of what I read of him he has a very skewed world view. And he is extremely narcissistic, instead of becoming a martyr he chose to surrender to spread his propaganda further...