Computer games are evil

hahahahaha oh yea believe it.... i am gonna have a ramble on this one , possibly a loooong one.

Computer games are designed for 1 thing and that is entertainment. How is a computer game any different from playing oh i dont know , cops 'n robbers?

Computer game: First Person Shooter - The point of these games is to run around and kill the "bad guys"
Cops 'n Robbers: The point of this game is to erm...well run around and kill the "bad guys"

how are these 2 activities so disimilar to each other and how is one bad and the other good?

but cnr (cops 'n robbers) can be played with friends.... well so can computer games... in fact you could play the game with millions of other people from all over the globe potentially increasing your knowledge of the people from those countries and their culture.
-- CNR: 0 - PC Games :1

but you actually have to go outside to play cnr. well thats fantastic. outside who would have thought of that , skin cancer , pedophiles , drunks , litter and much more await you in this "outside"
--CNR:0 - PC Games:2

you get exercise with CNR. this one is actually a good point one of the very few good points though. i am not a health nut or a exersize-a-holic. but i am able to walk to where i need if needed. people in general need a little more excersize. although with the advent of the Nintendo WII this is starting to change in favour of the ole computer game. i know i know , its not the same but its better than nothing. we shall see how this developes
--CNR:1 - PC Games:2

but but but... computer games make kids do bad things... well thats interesting computer games made them do it? is that the modern way of saying , the devil made me do it... my cat made me do it... anyways computer games dont make anyone do anything , they are a medium for entertainment , a pass the time or to escape from your disfinctional life.

escapism has been around for as long as people have had things they didnt want to deal with, telling stories around the fire after a hard days hunting. singing hyms after a tough day farming. readin a book after a bad day. these are all forms of escapism but they have not been blamed for making anyone do anything. so what is the differense? computer games are more real i hear you say , well i have news for you the tales of dragons and knights and grand adventures in the books i read are more real than any computer game and it is the same for everyone your imagination is unbound and runs for the far courners of belief at a moments notice given a chance. people have been using their imagination to escape for a long time... so its not the realism of computer games.

i will referense a farely wide known event , known in most of the world (mainly cause there was a movie). The shootings at Columbine High School. there were 2 things i heard which made me laugh:
1) they played violent video games (in this case Counter Strike)
2) they listened to violent music (Marilyn Manson)

i play violent video games and listen to violent music and i have yet to go on a killing spree

so what is the differense?

these 2 teenagers had a terrible time at school ect ect... alot of teens have that , its all a part of being a teen.

however the way they delt with it wasnt a normal response , why? maybe they were not shown how to deal with their problems and that no one noticed that these 2 were not dealing with their problems , surely thats the parents fault not a computer game or some singers fault. easier to blame someone else i suppose.

in the end computer games are a tool nothing else. They are neither good or bad they just are. If you told someone to fly a plane , someone who had no qualification to do so... and they crashed the plane, whos fault is it? the person who let them fly, not the plains fault. so why then are computer games blamed for anything?

--end of rambling