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I shall preface this article with a glimpse of one of the newer ultra-violent first person shooters coming out in the near future.  Check this clip out:

http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/15278

I don’t know about you, but I remember playing the absolute hell out of Soldier of Fortune 2, even seperating myself from the crowd as one of the elite few in an uber-clan.  Ah, I can still smell the shrapnel and chaos as we zipped around from level to level, constantly killing one another just to steal a suitcase apparently filled with enough coke to make the endeavor completely worthwhile.  Seriously though, the question we all should ask ourselves is that of the correlation between violence and video games, or media in general for that matter.  I for one, crazy as I am, have never completely fallen into a video-game driven craze as such that I forgot what reality is all about, and what the guidelines and ethics of our world are.  Those who claim that video game violence causes real life violence, while potentially validated somewhat by the fact that, yes, many psychos do play video games, seem to forget that, yes, many psychos sleep, and yes, many psychos have the capacity to read.  It seems to me that we must realize that video game culture has become so pervasive in modern society that this argument would be equivalent to saying eating is directly correlated with psychotic and sociopathological behavior.  I need thoughts, people.  I never claim to be one hundred percent correct; give me some ideas or viewpoints on this situation!

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