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#1 Feb 06 2015 at 12:00 PM Rating: Good
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...for inciting violent behavior.

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Coming as a bit of a shock to the video game community, the hugely popular Minecraft is under investigation in the Republic of Turkey. The reasons why may resonate a lot with gamers considering the past few months of events with Gamergate.

Minecraft was launched in 2009 as the brain child of Swedish video game developer Mojang. Since it’s inception, it has been used to re-create Denmark on a 1:1 scale (forty thousand billion bricks), became the most-played Xbox live game and sold more than 17 million copies. Unfortunately, it has also drawn the ire of a certain section of the Republic of Turkey’s government, more specifically the “Family and Social Policies Ministry.”

The Family and Social Policies Ministry provides a variety of services including: children services, family and public services, disabled and elderly services, social aids, status of women and others. According to the Daily News article linked above, this section of the Turkey government is investigating Minecraft over a number of accusations that it promotes violence and more importantly violence towards women. A more detailed look into the investigation shows that the ministry is seeking to find whether or not the game contains triggers that will induce violence in whoever is playing the game.

There is no doubt that Minecraft contains elements of violence which involve everything from slaying zombies to dragons to other unique creatures. However, killing these creatures is not completely necessary unless you are playing the games “survival mode”, which is one of several mode choices a player can start the game with. In short, this isn’t a situation which is forced upon the person playing the game. Unfortunately, this has not deterred some from linking Minecraft to the ill-founded actions of others.

For example, in September of 2013, a local news site reported on a nine year old boy in Orlando, Florida who had brought a handgun, a steak knife and several other weapons to his school. When his father was asked why he did this, he responded saying that his son was “playing a character he learned from a video game.” That game happened to be Minecraft.

With the recent debates about the link between violent video games and real life aggression, many studies have surfaced that show that this “link” is nothing but fluff. In fact, one study entitled “Violent Video Games and Real-World Violence: Rhetoric Versus Data” concluded that “Contrary to the claims that violent video games are linked to aggressive assaults and homicides, no evidence was found to suggest that this medium was positively related to real-world violence in the United States.”

Either way, time will tell if Minecraft gets labeled as a video game that incites violence in those who play it.
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#2 Feb 06 2015 at 12:12 PM Rating: Good
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#3 Feb 06 2015 at 12:46 PM Rating: Good
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this section of the Turkey government is investigating Minecraft over a number of accusations that it promotes violence and more importantly violence towards women.


In a game with no sex/gender distinctions?

Edited, Feb 6th 2015 1:47pm by TirithRR
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#4 Feb 06 2015 at 2:05 PM Rating: Good
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There are guns in minecraft?

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this section of the Turkey government is investigating Minecraft over a number of accusations that it promotes violence and more importantly violence towards women.


In a game with no ***/gender distinctions?


Sorry but "all characters are default male" is not the same as no gender...

This is still a dumb initiative of course... but had to challenge that.


Edited, Feb 6th 2015 12:09pm by Olorinus
#5 Feb 06 2015 at 2:22 PM Rating: Good
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He didn't say there was no gender, he said there was no gender distinction, which would make it impossible for there to be "violence towards women" like the Turkish government is apparently alleging.
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Skids love to DDOS other skids minecraft servers with stressors and booters.

Won't somebody think of the packets!
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#7 Feb 06 2015 at 5:41 PM Rating: Good
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Olorinus wrote:
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this section of the Turkey government is investigating Minecraft over a number of accusations that it promotes violence and more importantly violence towards women.


In a game with no ***/gender distinctions?


Sorry but "all characters are default male" is not the same as no gender...

This is still a dumb initiative of course... but had to challenge that.


So what exactly about the characters in Minecraft make them of the male gender or sex? The lack of breasts? The lack of long hair? I thought gender wasn't biological, and breast size and hair length had no bearing on sex. That's not very progressive of you. Seems very anti-LGBT.

Minecraft characters are genderless, sexless. Nothing about them seems to be either gender/sex, unless you apply the very social gender roles you appear to be against to define them as Male.

Some of the animals appear to have biological functions that would hint toward them being female, but it's very common in cartoons and the like to attribute these things to both sexes. Milk, Eggs, etc have been applied to male animals as well when it comes to stuff like this. But I really doubt that the fact that you can kill a chicken for meat after you take its eggs is what these people are complaining about when it comes to violence against women.

Edited, Feb 6th 2015 6:43pm by TirithRR
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#8 Feb 10 2015 at 1:06 PM Rating: Good
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The character name is Steve...

That's a nice argument you made up there, but if the character had breasts and was named Jessica you wouldn't assume they were male, or call it gender neutral.

I can't believe b r e a s t s is censored... come on guys...

Edited, Feb 10th 2015 11:33am by Olorinus
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The mascot is Steve, right? Your character is named what ever you want? Pretty sure mine isn't named Steve, but I haven't played in a year or so.

I don't know what word you have censored there. I'll assume breasts. But the current mineceraft character doesn't have a penis, right? So a genital free character with a name you define.
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Olorinus wrote:
That's a nice argument you made up there, but if the character had breasts and was named Jessica you wouldn't assume they were male, or call it gender neutral.
I'd still laugh at the claim that the game promotes violence towards women, though.

Edited, Feb 10th 2015 3:03pm by lolgaxe
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But the current mineceraft character doesn't have a penis, right?

The villagers have some impressive face-dongs.
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#12 Feb 10 2015 at 5:22 PM Rating: Decent
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If Minecraft were to cause any type of abnormal behavior, violence wouldn't be it. Excessive digging, hoarding mass quantities of resources, and extreme night terrors might be more apt.
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Genital free since 2003!

Could be a hot new thing. Fat Free. Suger Free. Gluten Free. Genital Free!

Barbie and Ken were innovators.
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#14 Feb 12 2015 at 6:30 PM Rating: Excellent
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lolgaxe wrote:
Olorinus wrote:
That's a nice argument you made up there, but if the character had breasts and was named Jessica you wouldn't assume they were male, or call it gender neutral.
I'd still laugh at the claim that the game promotes violence towards women, though.


Yes. We can all agree on that. It's a ludicrous claim.
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Olorinus wrote:
The character name is Steve...


http://9gag.com/gag/4965694/i-am-a-girl-named-steve
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