Examine the following real case and respond to the prompts in your initial post.
In 2003, 18-year-old Devin Moore was arrested and brought to a police station under the suspicion of auto theft. While in custody, Moore acquired a police officers gun and killed that officer by shooting him several times, including a fatal shot to the head. Moore then shot and killed a second police officer with yet another fatal shot to the head. Finally, Moore walked down the hall and shot and killed an emergency dispatcher. After committing the three murders, Moore stole a police cruiser and drove off. In less than one minute, Moore had murdered three people.
His lawyers defense was that the video game Grand Theft Auto (GTA) made him do it. It turns out that Moore had been playing GTA day and night for months, and his lawyers argued that Moore was not guilty by reason of mental defect arising, in part, from playing GTA for hours upon hours. According to Moores lawyer, Jack Thompson:
What were saying is that Devin Moore was, in effect, trained to do what he did. He was given a murder simulator. He bought it as a minor. He played it hundreds of hours, which is primarily a cop-killing game. Its our theory, which we think we can prove to a jury in Alabama, that, but for the video-game training, he would not have done what he did.
Upon Moores arrest, he stated life is a video game, everybody has to die sometime. An Alabama jury concluded that Moore was to blame for the murders, not the creators of GTA. Neuroscience tells us that a persons prefrontal cortex, which is the region of the brain responsible for important functions such as conscience, emotions, and reasoning to draw conclusions, is not completely developed until a person is in their early to mid-20s. Moore was 18 when he committed these crimes.
Should Moore carry all of the responsibility for his actions or should the creators of GTA share some of the responsibility?
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