Another Side to the Story
I’m truly sick and tired of the media and politicians scapegoating video games as the new evil influencing children’s lives. On the extreme opposite end (of which I admit I agreed with to an extent) is laying the blame on bad parenting. It’s always easy to point fingers when everything is black & white.
The truth lays somewhere in-between. What if the child is “broken”? Our legal system doesn’t seem equipped to handle this situation.
I’ve been following a case about a boy who murdered a homeless man and then afterwards defecated on him. The boy said that he was, in so many words, influenced by violent video games. A media circus ensued.
Gabe at Penny Arcade made a pretty scathing post blaming the parents of this boy for failing to raise him properly. In reaction to that, the boy’s “stepmother” (who happened to be a longtime Penny Arcade reader) responded.
Her letter is posted here. It is heartfelt and very candid. Will this ever make the news? Probably not.
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This is scary…
I guess there is such a thing as a “Bad Seed”. In this whack-out world we live in, I guess anything is possible.
But then again the term “Bad Seed” implies that he was born that way.