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<blockquote data-quote="Cameron" data-source="post: 3650068" data-attributes="member: 52735">(This is with regards to the topic of the thread in general)[rant]Ye Gods... Here we go... *again*! The kid ends up killing someone, violent video games are the blame! Parents neglecting their children, DnD is to blame!Gah!!!! Doesn't the phrase &quot;personal responsibility&quot; mean anything anymore?????The person screwed up. It is their fault, not the fault of everything else! To paraphrase and mangle the words of a fictional character: &quot;Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be inconclusive has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of inconclusive evidence, we will pin all our hopes on the most outrageous of emotions.&quot;[/rant]Right. Got that out of the system. More seriously, articles like this is why I don't bother reading, watching, listening or otherwise having anything to do with the &quot;news&quot; anymore. It isn't news. It is tabloid, checkbook, sensationalist ravings. The number of times I want to smack the blockhead journo that asks the grieving parents: &quot;So how do you feeling having lost your 8 year old child to that rapist-murderer?&quot; I mean, how do you *think* they feel, ya blithering moron?Unfortunately, though. Things like that sells. People want to see tears and gnashing of teeth. If they don't get that reaction, they automatically think that the parent did it. Joanna Lees certainly got a faceful of that type of condemnation. So, the advice that I would put forward is to just ignore the journos (not just with regards to DnD, but with regards to every aspect of your life) and force them to go away that way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cameron, post: 3650068, member: 52735"] (This is with regards to the topic of the thread in general) [rant] Ye Gods... Here we go... *again*! The kid ends up killing someone, violent video games are the blame! Parents neglecting their children, DnD is to blame! Gah!!!! Doesn't the phrase "personal responsibility" mean anything anymore????? The person screwed up. It is their fault, not the fault of everything else! To paraphrase and mangle the words of a fictional character: "Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be inconclusive has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of inconclusive evidence, we will pin all our hopes on the most outrageous of emotions." [/rant] Right. Got that out of the system. More seriously, articles like this is why I don't bother reading, watching, listening or otherwise having anything to do with the "news" anymore. It isn't news. It is tabloid, checkbook, sensationalist ravings. The number of times I want to smack the blockhead journo that asks the grieving parents: "So how do you feeling having lost your 8 year old child to that rapist-murderer?" I mean, how do you *think* they feel, ya blithering moron? Unfortunately, though. Things like that sells. People want to see tears and gnashing of teeth. If they don't get that reaction, they automatically think that the parent did it. Joanna Lees certainly got a faceful of that type of condemnation. So, the advice that I would put forward is to just ignore the journos (not just with regards to DnD, but with regards to every aspect of your life) and force them to go away that way. [/QUOTE]

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