Okay, since this is the umpteenth time you attack my character instead of actually backing up your opinion. I am done being polite.

You keep saying my opinions are based on personal experience and that haven’t done research. You do not know me. I have done research. I have tried to find the statistics through Google that support your claim that youth violence is on the rise. But when I search for it, all I find is statistics that show it has steadily gone down since the 90’s, as has violent crime in general.

It is not your job to feed me links. That much is true. But is it so wrong to request the source for your claim, especially since you keep insisting there’s mountains of evidence to support it?

Again, you say I don’t want to do the research, but I do. That’s WHY I’d like to see your source. But again, everything I find say the opposite.

But all you do is appeal to vague authorities that you refuse to share. You keep referring to authorities, statistics facts, but you’re not sharing any.

Who knows? Maybe I am just bad at Google. You claim that facts worldwide support the “reports” I dismiss. So they shouldn’t be hard to find.

And I only dismissed one report in particular. Any other report that has ever been shown to me has shown a link between violent games and short-term aggression. Not a single one has ever presented evidence of a link to actual violent behavior. As I mentioned earlier, even your own source disputed that their report proves such a link:

Violent video game play is linked to increased aggression in players but insufficient evidence exists about whether the link extends to criminal violence or delinquency, according to a new American Psychological Association task force report. ~ American Psychological Association

Remember, when you criticized me for saying the report is subject for dispute, you claimed they were “the country’s most reputable and leading source for such data.”

You also happened to neglect that the only link your posted was actually part of a huge pro-con list that listed a number of arguments from reputable academics and researchers on the issue:

Now,let’s talk about your character a bit, since you love attacking mine so much.

As I mentioned earlier, you’ve listed just one source through this whole discussion, while appealing to vague authorities many times over.

There are similar reports from Sweden, Ireland, UK, France, Japan and Australia.

Add to that the awareness that it makes sense (the fact that there has been a LARGE increase in teenage teenage violence in recent years), and I would not dismiss it.

Let it drop, I am not interest in arguing when facts worldwide support the reports you dismiss.

Meanwhile, you accuse me of:

I really think that there is little point in continuing. I am not willing to engage in dispute with anyone who openly bases all opinion on personal experience.

All you have done is disparage such research based on YOUR EXPERIENCE.

You also accuse someone else who disagrees with you, Tehy Tehy:

Bye. Sorry, but I cannot continue with anyone who values personal experience (anecdotal to anyone else) above many years of valid research. People with closed minds cannot be reasoned with, so I will not try.

In other words, you think you are the only one who sees reason. If someone diagrees with you and doesn’t just take your word for things, they are unreasonable. All other viewpoints besides your own are just based on personal anecdotes.

And the moment someone gives you a sound counter-argument, you throw a hissy-fit, insult them and say goodbye.

Who here has the closed mind?

Also, who here keep bringing up personal anecdotes? (In the same comment as the accusation itself, no less.)

I have a very different world view to you. I have occasion to actually see close up and personal the increase in violence. What I see is statistically supported, and most vividly supported by headlines.

As for the courtroom attempt (it was not successful) I covered that and later interview the guy involved. He said he dozed off at the wheel, woke suddenly and thought for a few seconds that he was playing a game where you could ram other cars off the road. I believed him, and he went on to attempt to have such gamed banned or restricted. Again unsuccessfully.

I have also interviewed family members of ISIS recruits — people who were NOT Muslim, but had a long history of FPS games. It makes sense to me, and you decrying it doesn’t change my mind.

To sum up, you’ve presented one link, a ton of vague references to supposed authorities (reports, statistics, facts) that support your claims, and a bunch of anecdotes.

So maybe you should follow your own advice. If you’re unwilling to back up your bullshit, go on Twitter where no one expects you to.