Jack Thompson (hide your games!)

[Prelauncher]

I do not agree with you, The Dark Side. I don't belive that people are born evil and I think it's a way too narrow view on something so large as human nature. But to some extent you are right, scientists have discovered (I don't remember the whole story) that the brain produces a certain chemical that increase the chance for violent behavior, some people are born with brains that produce more than the average amount of this chemical wich in most cases makes them more likely to become violent.
Apart from that, I say no, people are not born evil. It does not matter how evil their parents are before the baby is born, their behavior is not in any way affecting the development of the babys body and brain (unless of course, the mother consumes toxic substances, for example alcohol).
Every baby is like a white pice of paper, they have no real personality, there's nothing going on in their brain because at this early stage of life the human body is not capable of interpreting the world. We are not born equal (biologicaly), our bodies develope in different ways and therefore we will be more likely to behave and do certain things.
So there is a huge amount of factors which determine who you'll end up being, what you'll like, how you'll behave. The biggest factor are ones parents, they shape who you'll become, they build the foundation from which youll build your self. And based on how your parents raise you you'll be more likely to commit crime or not. Apart from your parents there are a whole lot of other factors; friends, school, enemies, history, politics, religion, violence etc.
So in this way, how subjectable one is to violence in video games are soley based on maturity and personallity. At certain periods of peoples life they are more recipient to certain themes and acts etc. based on their level of maturity. Just look at punk for example, not everybody likes it, but younger people tend to like it based on their level of maturity which have been shaped by their surrounding world since punk music often deal with political themes. It is a phace of the development of ones mind that are highly affected by ones view of the world.
Some people might be and are more recipient to violence in video games, and this is because of their background, maturity, psychological state, mental illness etc. Some people might commit crimes because of what they've excperienced in video games, but like you said, we can't put the blame soley on video games.