But there’s almost zero coverage of this, yes stranger danger is covered ad nauseum but the fact is that sexual child abuse happens in the home and is mostly perpetrated by relatives and people well known to the victim.

But no one talks about this

Perhaps the causes of sexual abuse and child on child violence is linked. Perhaps the cause is the very nature of our society and the frankly warped power relationships between children and adults.

Foe instance children are powerless how do they consciously or subconsciously deal with this. It’s like the American dream some people work hard some people become drug lords or thieves. Some children furiously want top grow up, some children hate themselves and hate those around them, or adopt criminality to give them power.

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This illustrates the point that all this postering and lazy conjecture by politicians and supposed professionals, (re snorting WoW is the same as injecting heroin), tend to miss one key point. Lazy can’t be arsed, shove little Timmy in his room with an XBox, get him what he want or he’ll cwy, spend no time with the kids, too much hassle, attitude that a greeat many parents seem to have.

So this to the parent buying GTA for an 8 year old. Next Chrimbob, get him 20 B&H, a bottle of Thunderbirds, £50 spending credit at your local casino, and any film with Justine Jolie in it. ROOOOAAAAR! Oh and a great big f*** off knife.

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I’m surprised Plymouth had 9 games shops, let alone more.

Would it surprise you to learny that ‘game shop’ defined every single retail outlet that just happens to peddle computer games, including (but not limited too) supermarkets, stationers and mobile phone shops offering Wii/Xbox/PS3 bundles.

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This was a few years ago, but things haven’t really improved:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/3329863.stm

Cllr. Leaves is just a ridiculous rent-a-gob and the Herald share the owners and attitude of the Daily Mail, hence the above.

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The fact is that everything experienced, seen, heard and felt has an impact on a developing personality. Every action taken and the observed consequences gets hard coded into the brain to define a ‘moral’ framework. It’s not a question of wether violent games have an impact but rather how much of an impact.

The key point for most of us is that we get a good range of input … sure we may see and experience violence but we also see and experience the range of positive influences ie love, compassion etc and our brains have a great ability to balance the equations.

The problem is, of course, that we are all different. What might be an acceptable level of negative input for one person might be in another the limit that would push them more towards becoming a violent personality.

Politicians are probably the worst offenders obviously as they look to single out one “cause” to blame for political reasons. Yes, it’s a moronic thing to do but that doesnt negate the issue. Take a 12 year old kid playing video games 4 hours a day … of course it has an influence, it would be impossible for it not to have an influence. That’s just the nature of the brain, everything gets absorbed.

But then again, that’s a parent responsability and for the most part goverments should stay the hell out of it ;)

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I feel a person who is not capable of attacking an innocent person with a knife will not suddenly be swayed into doing so by playing a violent game; the same way if your morals say its ok to attack innocent people, you will not suddenly change your morals by playing Hello Kitty.

*I’m gonna go out tonight wiv ma mates, drink some cider and punch some kid up*
**Realises little sister has left Hello Kitty on and runs about in the world**
*Aww, such a cute little kitten, why did I have those evil thoughts earlier? How could I possibly want to hurt an innocent person?*

-Disclaimer- I understand my post has various pigeonholes and generalisations. I only use these as a simpler way of expressing my point.-

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