• Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    simulated acts beget real ones.

    Yeah I’ve heard that argument before, but never saw any logic in it.

    I’ve played every GTA game. Yet I have never had the desire or thought to start jacking people’s cars, or shooting random pedestrians with an ak-47, or whatever.

    I think anybody who’s a fan of videogames would see that argument as pretty weak. But what do I know.

    • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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      3 days ago

      Yes I too have been killing people violently in videogames for decades. IIRC, there actually has been a lot of study and very little correlation.

      The question here is about real physical sex with realistic child dolls being done presumably by pederasts.

      It’s not at all obvious to me that the psychology work the same in both cases.

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      3 days ago

      I on the other hand am always shooting people with arrows and bonking them with two handed swords made of granite.