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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

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"The video game industry gave him a cranial menu that popped up in the blink of an eye, in that police station," says Thompson. "And that menu offered him the split-second decision to kill the officers, shoot them in the head, flee in a police car, just as the game itself trained them to do."

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So the kid was a cyborg? When did the video game industry start installing cranial HUDs in kids' heads?

Okay. So that's sort of ridiculous, but the rest of the little article seemed pretty reasonable given what is presently known about the workings of the mind.

Physically, we are what we eat, and to a certain extent, mentally, we are what we put into our heads. This is especially true when we are young.

I'm sure there are many many other things that also contributed to what the kid was capable of and ended up doing, but ultimately, he's to blame, period.

There's no scientific way to get into and understand his mind in order to assign blame to every little thing that contributed whether in a large way or not to his criminal behavior.

I don't know what the cop's brother's true motivation is in this suit, but instead of suing the company for millions, he should realize that the company is only doing what he and the rest of society has allowed it to do legally. That is to produce games that glorify murder and theft, and market them to children. If he truly cares, he needs to stir up a grass roots movement to change the laws in his area (after he loses his case).

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