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Violent Gamers Immune to Pain - of Others
meh says,
I think its less of thinking suffering isn't bad but more of in relativity.
"Huh, you got punched in the face, eh? I just shot this guy in the face forty-three times and he hasn't even flinched."
Or maybe they WERE trying to get an achievement.
I'm still betting that its because sometimes people put pain out of proportion in video games (such as gunshot wounds to the leg being "nonlethal") so much so that it blends in with reality, mostly because we don't see any actual serious combat to compare it to. Enlisted/law enforcement/mob members aside, that is.
Article excerpt from kotaku.com —
"More scholarship suggests playing violent video games makes one - get ready to have the song stuck in your head, too -Â "comfortably numb" to others in pain and less likely to help them.
Two perfessers cooked up a study in which 320 college students were given violent and nonviolent video games to play. After about 20 minutes of play, they...
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