These are some key ideas I'm trying to use for my LA exam which is on games.
I choose to do a topic on people who think video games are bad for people, and yes some of it is from Penn & Teller.
-Everyone learns the difference between reality and fantasy early in life.
-They say that there is a link between violent video games and increased aggression.
-There has been no hard evidence that violent video games cause outbursts in teens.
-They put kids in MRI tubes and showed the copy cat part of the brain light up like a Christmas tree. But blood rushing into a certain part of brain is a very broad term that doesn’t really translate into any particular behavior.
-People will research some awful crime and find an Xbox in the house and blame the crime on that but video games are so common now that 59% of houses have a video game console.
-The FBI profiled school shooters and found that the only things they had in common were that they were males and that they tended to be depressed and nothing to do with video games.
-Youth crime has plummeted by half since the mid 1990s when video games first came out despite they sky rocketing popularity in video games.
-Fantasy violence up, real violence down.
-Boys that play video games like Grand Theft Auto say that they found some aspects of them educational, like if you get in a gang it’s hard to get out or if you do something bad police come after you.
-Lots of adults say that video games are an isolating experience, but studies show that video games are a very social experience weather you’re playing with someone right next to you or with someone over the internet.
-Most of the research done my anti video game activists is agenda driven and that is not how you do research.
-Imagine that video games were invented 100 years before football, people start getting broken knees broken legs broken arms and concussions. From 1931 to 2007 667 people have died playing football, although football is encouraged by schools, parents and society.
-Mac Sewart
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Only one problem with the theory, I've been playing games like gta since I was 3 years old, It hasn't turned me into a violent criminal
it's more a less the dickheads these people are brought up with, in my opinion.
I knew a guy who was a really big fan of the original GTA. Five years later, BAM, cancer.
Just put that correlation =/= causation.
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