The average Joe has been given control of a series and....as expected it falls short.
each episode feels like they were written by high schoolers and so far nothing really ties into anything.
Come on a video game that leads to mass murder, thanks for not having intelligence.
How about this:
A band which believes in peace and love records a song about an amusement park ride, and a group of crazies takes this song as a prophesy, and commits a series of murders in a plot to overthrow the existing order.
Nah, that's stupid.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074621/
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- Jon Stewart
And should the music group be held responsible for that?
There are a lot of crazy people out there capable of practically anything and will do it for one reason or another, if it hadn't been that song it would have been something else.
If he's called Spock Prime can we call you Subprime?
Obviously, there was no way for John, Paul, George and Ringo had no way of knowing what Manson would make of their work. If they had known, and then decided that a hit album was more important than those lives, then hell yeah I'd lose respect for the Beatles.
Anyhoo, the point I was addressing was the idea that it's just plain stupid to think a video game could inspire murder, not what the video game's (comic book made into video game) author's moral responsibility was.
I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler.
- Jon Stewart
But it wouldn't have been their fault, not even morally. People who are prone to killing other people will do it whether a song gives them reason or something else does....you'd have to pretty much get rid of anything that inspires emotion and even then you'd probably still have sociopathic people killing.
To lay the moral obligation on a "scapegoat" like that is not only ridiculous, but takes blame away from the real perpetrators of the crime.
If he's called Spock Prime can we call you Subprime?
Again, the issue I was addressing wasn't the author's moral culpability or lack thereof. I was addressing the idea that it's stupid to think that a video game could inspire some wackadoodle into committing murder.
Of course it could. As you say, just about anything could inspire some wakadoodle. That's what makes him a wakadoodle. And it's why I don't have any patience with arguments that certain works of art, movies, songs, etc. should be restricted because of what they might inspire some wakadoodle to do. On those grounds, you would have to ban everything.
I mean hell, who would have guessed that a song about an amusement park ride would inspire a murder?
I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler.
- Jon Stewart