Quake and DSM-IV

How about V71.01 Adult Antisocial Behavior (for the designers, marketers and promoters) and V71.02 Child or Adolescent Antisocial Behavior (for the kids who will use these violence inducing products)? I have talked to several teens who frequently use these types of games. On the one hand they seem to know its a game. They see it just as something cool to do On the other, thier opinions on other issues suggests that their social and moral interests are not being culitvated. Teens from troubled backgrounds may not be able to tell the difference and their social interst will remain underdeveloped.

In Neil Bernstein's "Treating the unmanageble adolescent," he discusses the need to re/train these teens moral sense. I wonder if the population as a whoe needs such retraining.

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