{"id":327,"date":"2005-07-27T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-27T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=327"},"modified":"2005-07-27T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-27T13:10:00","slug":"football-vs-videogames-a-good-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/27\/football-vs-videogames-a-good-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Football vs Videogames: A good question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, I&#8217;ll bite: Why <i>are<\/i> we upset about videogame violence if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-johnson27jul27,0,1432940.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions\">regular sports also cause violence<\/a>? Simply because videogames are new and different? Or, because they are the banner of a new generation, they are &#8220;safe&#8221; for an older generation of politicians to attack?<\/p>\n<p>Clearly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportinsociety.org\/ptw-hrsf99.html\">high school sports violence isn&#8217;t something new<\/a>, and few people would consider banning it.  How do we educate our public and politicians about how to think properly about things that are new and different?<\/p>\n<p>And by &#8220;properly&#8221; I don&#8217;t mean &#8220;agreeing with me&#8221; &#8212; reasonable people can disagree about the possible dangers of things like videogames and still remain reasonable &#8212; instead I mean testing ideas against evidence, putting things in their proper context, and applying values formulated as universals, which means that in general you do NOT toss a call for ban or investigation onto the publicity trail of every pseudosensation that swims down the stream, but take a measured &#8230; dare I say &#8220;conservative&#8221;  &#8230; attiude towards any call for government regulation.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, I&#8217;ll bite: Why are we upset about videogame violence if regular sports also cause violence? Simply because videogames are new and different? Or, because they are the banner of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-development","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}