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Violence in games
05.18.06, 18:35:31
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i play a lot of games, including the more violent ones i.e. GTA. but they have never made me want to pick up an gun and kill. can such tragedies as the columbine killings really be blamed on doom and similar games? obviously NO! over in the UK we have the same games as the USA, no bits edited or dumbed down, and we never get high school shootings. I think you have to have a major screw loose in the brainbox to actually be effected by these games.
I've never thought that games were real, even as a 9 year old i played streets of rage and street fighter, this never made me want to grab an iron bar and start beating things up whilst looking for turkeys and puddings!
blaming games for real life violence is an excuse for bad parenting and silly gun laws....*looks at the USA gun laws* if teenagers can get there hands on guns, what do you thinks gonna happen! |
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Parents don't take care of their children and this is why people blame games. Scapegoating to escape the idea of accepting responsibility as a parent. I believe it's all up to the parents to know if your child is mature enough to handle violence. Gun laws are a different story. They are mainly in place to prevent crime. Police where you live are probably prone to using much less violence because people actually fear the police and think about their actions (even while under the influence) after police arrive to assess a situation. Here Americans do not care. Money can buy you an attorney and if he's well trained enough you can
a. buy your way out of the situation
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Whilst I don't personally believe that games cause people to be inherently violent by nature, there's no deny if a kid is playing something like GTA constantly from the age of six or so, that's it's going to have some adverse effect on their behaviour.
Of course, that doesn't just apply to game. The child would have to be exposed to other forums of violent media regularly (such as music and telivision) to become so comfortable and accepting of such violence.
At the end of the day though, it just boils down to bad parenting. A parent who teaches their child that violence of such nature is acceptable and morally right, is going to end up with a violent child.
If the parent at least tries to make the child understand the inherent wrongness of such violence though, I believe they'll grow up to accept it as such, whilst still being able to play such games without it having an adverse emotional effect on them. |
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Jack Thompson is the reason people insult Americans. End of story.
Basically, what Parks said. |
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| Like mentioned before, I think that blaming violence of games is just an excuse, a mere way to avoid the truth about being a bad parent. Irresponsible people nowadays. |
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I'm about to graduate from college with a bachelor's in psychology, so I know a little bit about how people think. It's my opinion that videogames don't cause violence, though they probably play a minor role in pushing some people over the edge. Humans have some level of inherited violent nature. If we didn't, our ancestors would have never survived in the wild 100,000 years ago. Since we are (somewhat) civilized today and violence is not neccissarily a part of everyday life, we use media like television and videogames as an outlet.
There are probably several reasons why things like school shootings occur. One is that kids grow up in violent neighborhoods where violence is a part of everyday life. They are then drawn to violent music, television, movies and videogames, which all further reinforce that being violent get's you what you want. The other major factor is when kids can't differentiate between fantasy and reality. Mental illnesses like depression are more common than people want to believe, and when kids have things like depression fantasy is much nicer than reality. We all know that when we blow a hole in someone with a shot gun in a videogame that it's fake and doing it in real life would be completely different. Kids with mental illnesses can forget that. They live in their fantasy world, which may be a videogame or a TV show or a movie.
The issue is a ton more complicated and I don't want to write a book, so that's what I think. |
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| they thing is that rhe whole situation is just one massive circle. There are too many perverts and sick people outisde to let the kids out - the kids stay inside with nothing to do but play on the games that mummy and daddy got becasue it's a way of shutting them up. They grow up and have had it fed inot them that the outside world is sick - they get isolation madness (as happened in the columbine masacre and at least one other - the name escapes me) so then more people keeep their kids in coz of all the perverts and sickos. and round and round we go. |
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It's already been said, but I think violence in youth is partly due to poor parently, and partly due to environment. If you're in a situation where you're essentially being raised by Grand Theft Auto 3, then, yeah... you're going to have a rather skewed view of reality. Likewise, if you're in a situation where you're surrounded by violence in real life, you're going to be more drawn to things like violent games.
Kids who go out and shoot people have more serious issues than their gaming habits.
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Jack Thompson is the reason people insult Americans. End of story.
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My dad said that violent video games don't create violent people, but violent people are attracted to violent video games, movies etc., and I whole-heartedly agree.
The effects that the games themselves have is that they probobly lessen your sense of empathy. If you run around and shoot people all day, it's going to blur the lines of reality somewhere in the chasms of your psyche, even if you can consciously differentiate between the two.
It's not just one thing that makes a kid blow his stack and shoot up a school, and video games are a common scapegoat. |
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