We are seeing in Germany an increasing numbers of Vehicle-ramming attacks[1]. Some of them were committed by people that were mental ill, some of them were used to play GTA hours non-stop. The question that a friend raised and I forward to HN: Do you think that GTA can be a bad influence for people which have problems distinguishing virtual from reality? There are any known studies in that direction?
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To people down-voting me like crazy, I'm not saying that games make normal people violent. Just observing the fact that we always had mental ill people and we always had cars, but none had the idea to drive it in the crowd back in the days. My friend is a professional psychologist working in a
psychiatric facility in Germany.
> Just observing the fact that we always had mental ill people and we always had cars, but none had the idea to drive it in the crowd back in the days
Unstable people were driving recklessly and with homicidal intentions decades before the videogame industry existed. Road rage was a thing in the 19th century.
> In 1854, a satirical article describing a hell-bent railroad engineer named "Joe Smashup" intentionally ramming other locomotives appeared in U.S. newspapers
We are seeing in Germany an increasing numbers of Vehicle-ramming attacks[1]. Some of them were committed by people that were mental ill, some of them were used to play GTA hours non-stop. The question that a friend raised and I forward to HN: Do you think that GTA can be a bad influence for people which have problems distinguishing virtual from reality? There are any known studies in that direction?
References: https://www.thelocal.de/20220608/one-person-dead-and-several...
EDIT: To people down-voting me like crazy, I'm not saying that games make normal people violent. Just observing the fact that we always had mental ill people and we always had cars, but none had the idea to drive it in the crowd back in the days. My friend is a professional psychologist working in a psychiatric facility in Germany.