Blogging is great… And blogging is difficult. How to write a public diary? Usually I don’t want to offend somebody, but on the other hand I want to represent my opinion as clear as possible.

 Recently there has been a very sad incident in one of germanies schools. A young man ran amok and injured a lot of people. Since the authorities found several so called “First Person Shooter” games in his home, the whole discussion about banning such computer games came up again. The discussion itself, for sure is legitimate, but there also have been reports and TV shows that did a good deal of polarization on the topic.

You see there are already at least three topics in one to write a blog-entry about. I’ll concentrate on the computer games.

Well, I hope that we all agree that a computer game (or what game so ever) is some sort of copy of the real world and not vice versa!! ...Good.

I think some people – well very many of them – make it for themselves very easy if they just say that one could run amok by playing the right/wrong computer games. Mind you, there is a lot of violence on the tele in TV shows, the News Magazines, etc., and if the former statement would be true, I think there would be much more people running amok. There is not doubt, that young people need guidance, but I am against categorical prohibition.

I am fed up with stupid, simple minded people, not seeing a larger picture, and reducing very complex flows in the human psyche to a simple computer game in comparison. As far as I’m concerned, ignorance and stupid simple people tempt me much more for running amok then anything else.

Greetings to you all,
Martin Zwigl