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MalKeshar
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I am starting a new debate with this question. Does America's society still have standards? I say we do as we do our best to keep our country and people safe from subjection to things, but what about what kids are playing? What about these bloody, gorey, bone-cracking, skull flying video games we play? Should that be something we should allow to be played? I don't think they should be banned but maybe cut down on the gore and blood. As for the clothes some people wear, I don't want to believe for even a second that SOMEONE out there hasn't been offended by another being's clothes. SUPER short shorts, skimpy clothes, guys' boxers hanging out. I want to hear other's opinions though and questions and answers. Is America's standards as good as they once were?

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qwerty1011
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Todays society is worse. The world is turning in a bad direction. Many things are corrupted.


Define corrupted. Define a bad direction. The world is just different from how you were as a kid and you are uncomfortable with this and call it bad.
indie55
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Define corrupted.

Perversion of moral values or a perversion of integrity.
Define a bad direction

Heading on a bearing that will bring us as a people into hard times.
The world is just different from how you were as a kid and you are uncomfortable with this and call it bad.

I really haven't been alive long enough to see a major change but I can feel a not so subtle shift in the way we're headed. If someone wants to be in denial of how bad things are going then so be it. Not sure about other countries but I'm pretty sure they're just as bad off as the United States.

It's also not wrong for a person to dislike change but if this change will cause harm then why not be uncomfortable with it.
loloynage2
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Sure, let everyone do drugs and fail in school too ... just because they want. Hell, we shouldn't even enforce schooling until the age of 16 and start subsidizing candy because it tastes good.

Oh right, because we all know that in the 50s no one ever did drugs. (sarcasm)

but they can't run around like idiots. If a girl dresses like a ******, she will act and study like one. I even have personal examples.

Give me scientific proof of this. Listen, you can't change someone's working skills with dress codes. Actually it's quite the opposite. Oh yea, and it's actually totally their right to run around like "idiots" as long as it's not public nudity.

The sophomore class lost 15% of it's kids due to dropouts in the following junior year. The school had a daycare where teen moms would see their children. College rates failed.

You can't force people not to study. Anyways, the people that do want to study, do study. And the people that don't, don't. And pregnancy, you should make more researches:

http://www.guttmacher.org/graphics/gr0501/gr050107f1.gif

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It's all progress. People do less drugs and are less impregnated today then in the last 50 years.
master565
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Corruption has been around for a long, long time.


That's exactly what i was going to say.

The world has had its ups and downs throughout its entire existence and this may be just another down.
qwerty1011
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Perversion of moral values or a perversion of integrity.


There arenew moral values. Why does your ones have to the right ones. And why does integrity matter.

Heading on a bearing that will bring us as a people into hard times.


Hard is a matter of perspective, WW2 was a hard time, we just think now is.
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If today's society is corrupted and broken then by all means let it remain that way. It'll weed out the weak, those who simply can't be bothered to put any effort in and follow the 'wrong' paths, only the smart and strong-willed will remain and society will be stronger for it.

indie55
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Hard is a matter of perspective, WW2 was a hard time, we just think now is.

Except we have a choice now. If you study WW2 history we didn't really have a choice. Now we are making more bad decisions than good ones and everything is spiraling downwards.
MalKeshar
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The video games argument is a long and hard one, but I'm not saying that because they are played, those people will quit their standards and go kill 20 people. I'm sorry also in the fact that I don't think that playing games like that help "release" anger, but it has been proven to increase it and I back this up with a reputable source. [url=http://http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/02/AR2008110202392.html]

MalKeshar
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The argument of the video games is a tough one, but just because people play them, which I have, doesn't mean someone is going to go kill 20 people after throwing their standards out the window. That is a bad choice. But it is proven that games like that increase aggresion, not help release it. Here is the source of this information. [url=http://http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/02/AR2008110202392.html]

Krizaz
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Why did you double post 2 minutes later? I don't really want to watch a long debate, but it must be good source if it is the Washington post.

I can believe violent video games increase aggression, I know I have a different, more agressive attitude after playing a large amount of violent video games, the games I play that are more violent are Red Dead Redemption and Uncharted 2.

loloynage2
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It focused on 364 children ages 9 to 12 in Minnesota

Yes, because that totally represents the world population.

In all three studies, researchers accounted for gender and previous aggressiveness.

Shows that violent video games. Only affects people that are already violent
indie55
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Shows that violent video games. Only affects people that are already violent

What constitutes an "already violent" person?
loloynage2
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What constitutes an "already violent" person?

I don't know, it can vary. But basically somebody that has tendency of hurting other people.
Krizaz
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Shows that violent video games. Only affects people that are already violent


Not necessarily, even though it is more probable. Violent Video games can trigger physiological changes in the brain that were previously undiscovered.
loloynage2
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Violent Video games can trigger physiological changes in the brain that were previously undiscovered.

You can only trigger something if there are charges to begin with. (If you get my metaphor)
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