Thai Cabbie Killing: We Have To Ask...

Since when does someone need a game to learn him how to rob someone?

I'm far more interested by the pre-meditation. That, all by itself, goes against the evidence that critics are aiming at Video Games. This was planned, you might kill someone in a drive-by like the old gangster movies, you might kill them with a Sniper rifle like in Leon, but if you sat down and conciously decided to use a weapon, knowing that it was illegal, then it is you that has broken the law, with forethought.

The concept of a pre-meditated, planned attack, whilst consistent with school shootings in the US, are actually far removed from the concept of 'Short periods of aggression after playing', which is the best that game-research has actually been able to come up with.

The saddest part is, censors are willing to let the killing continue because they 'don't have enough evidence', when they know the truth is that they are clinging onto a scapegoat in the hope that something terrible enough will happen that they can pull a Thailand, and start banning stuff in the pretense of protecting people before anyone has a chance to react.

If the kid was weak-minded or whatever - enough to mimic GTA and kill a Taxi driver, let us be thankful he wasn't watching a movie like SAW, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, Star Wars, - MANY MANY more people would have wound up dead!!

Or he could have spent his time reading books - like Oliver, and started up a ring of theft using children! Or perhaps he could have read a Hitchcock novel, got a job at a hotel and slaughtered innocent women!

So perhaps it was best he was playing GTA, huh?

I have to agree with Master_E though.  I think the point is that as much of a leap as it is to get them to drive is as much as it is for other things.  My question is, how many times was the cabbie stabbed?  If only once or twice, I claim the game had no part at all because he knew where to stab as well, but if it stabbed many times, it may have...    Either way, you have to be screwed up to make that leap to be willing to kill someone, and you see just as violent of things on TV and in movies today.

As always, I blame the parents.  Up until the kid is 21, I blame the parents, that is unless the kid somehow got mixed into a crazy cult like scientology and ran away, but then it is the parents fault for letting that happen in the first place.

GP can we get  a conformation on the age of the kid?  I see 18 at some other sites.  I was wondering if he was almost 19, or if he was 19 and other news sites are saying 18 to make the new story more interesting.

@ sortableturnip hahaha, win for you