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(科技)大規模殺手自白重燃電玩辯論

科學家無法確定暴力的電玩遊戲是否會讓我們變得更暴力。

去年在挪威殺害77人的安德斯布萊維克宣稱，他花了一年的時間打暴力電玩，因此正式開啟了電玩遊戲對我們影響的辯論。上週在審判中，布萊維克說他玩「使命召喚：現代戰爭2」來練習他的射擊，而且經常一天花上多達16小時在玩「魔獸世界」。

長久以來一直有觀察員指出暴力遊戲和激進行為之間的關係，布萊維克的坦言似乎讓此看法更加可信。但遊戲玩家和大量的專欄作家對這些觀點感到相當挫折。在一篇富比士的文章中，保羅塔西提到暴力遊戲的辯論表示，「我們要重複討論這個多少次？」後來他補充道，「現在真的是越來越荒謬了。」

對遊戲玩家來說，問題在於雖然沒有發現暴力和暴力遊戲之間的關連，但是科學實驗無法完全反駁這樣的理論。事實上一份2004年美國政府對學校襲擊者的研究發現，「超過一半以上的攻擊者透過電影、電玩、書籍和其他媒體彰顯出對暴力的興趣。」

(Technology)Mass Killers Admissions Reignite Video Game Debate

Scientists dont know for sure whether violent video games make us more violent.

When Anders Breivik, the man responsible for murdering 77 people in Norway last year, announced that he took a year out to play violent video games, the debate over the influence video games have on us was officially reopened. In his trial last week, Breivik said he played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to practice his shooting and often spent as many as 16 hours a day on World of Warcraft.

It has long been suggested by some observers that there is a connection between violent games and aggressive behavior, and Breiviks revelations appear to make such views more credible. Gamers and a large number of columnists have reacted with frustration to these sentiments, though. In an article for Forbes, Paul Tassi referred to the debate over violent games, saying: How many times are we going to do this? He later added: Really now, its getting absurd.

The problem for the gamers is that although no link between violence and violent games has been found, scientific tests have not been able to completely disprove the theory. A 2004 US government study on school attackers actually found that over half of the attackers demonstrated some interest in violence, through movies, video games, books and other media.

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