Boy stabs mom for not paying internet bills

[HANDsolo]

Did he collect the dog tags?

[Voicy]

He TK'd his mom 6-love!

[Deceptor]

Well Telkom better fix my line or else i'll do some stabbing .

[mcryan]

Thats pretty messed up.

Personally, I dont think that the claims made against gaming are complete hogwash.

I do think that games can have an adverse effect on gamers, but not to the point where you stab ur mother and or gun down your fellow pupils and students like with the Columbine incident.

In fact, where Columbine is concerned, it was the music that those guys listened to that got them doing that, not games. Music is very powerful, I guess they got swept away with what they were into, and that content contained killing/murder. I dont recall the song, but the content of the lyrics of a particular song was exactly what they carried out that day, there is evidence of those guys actually speaking the lyrics while they were doing the killing.

Basically, regardless of whether its music or games that are to blame, its what entered and what was entertained in their imagination that led to their actions.

Murders, adultery, theft etc come from the heart. The greek translation for heart is Dianoia - meaning imagination.

I can't quite agree with you. Music, games and movies to not influence my behaviour, or any of my life decisions. Neither do I believe that either of these ALONE have any power over a person.

I am not saying that they don't have anything to do with it, perhaps they do, but certainly not single handedly.

The real culprit in my eyes is drugs and alcohol. And when I say drugs, I am not limiting the title to street drugs, I am talking about everything from street drugs to psychiatric and other pharmaceutical drugs.

I don't believe there is anything else on this planet that can honestly make someone insane enough to do things like stab their own mother because of an internet connection.