• The Connection Between Video Game Violence and "IRL" Violence
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Not much connection to me at least. There's been no real linking between video games and real life. I have many violent games, simulators and what not. I'm the exact opposite of how a person who would be "effected by these violent murder simulators."
Society is not violent because video games are violent. Video games are violent because society is violent.
[QUOTE=Milkshaker;41647168]Society is not violent because video games are violent. Video games are violent because society is violent.[/QUOTE] Deep.
I've been playing games since I was young, and played [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6EKBWVQYRY"]The Punisher[/URL] throughout my childhood, and I've never committed a crime in my life. (Except when I pocketed some Tic Tacs when I was 5.) There's no link between violent video games and real life violence whatsoever.
I think it depends on the age of the person playing it. For example, if you let a 10 year old grow up with Call of Duty, they're probably going to get more violent thoughts, and be more acclimatized to violence, blood, etc. That's not to say they're going to become murderers and all that melodramatic bullshit.
I saw an interesting interview on CNN on this subject some experts discussed this and the point was made that perhaps it is not the violent video games causing violent actions, but it could very well be that people who tend to be more mentally unstable or not very social are more drawn to play video games. Many video games these days are violent (pretty much all of my gaming library has some form of violence in it).
Video games connected to real violence? ONLY an absolute maniac would go and hurt/kill another human being because they shot that noob on their favourite first person shooter! Then again.. everyone these days could be a potential maniac! ._.
I obviously can't speak for the whole population, but most of my friends have played violent video games and enjoyed them in some form or another, and a lot of them are pretty good people. I have one friend who actually does get more violent from playing video games, but he also has his own problems, and does the same thing in any kind of competition - not just in games - if he loses, sometimes he loses it. Almost always though it seems to come down to the person having an issue already, in which case blaming the game makes about as much sense as having a person accidentally bump into somebody because they were tripped, and they get beat up because that person was unstable, then saying "well it's your fault for bumping into him"
No connection, i love killing people in-game rip our their hearts, eat them, rape them, painting my face in their blood. But in real life i don't feel the need to do so as i couldn't hurt a fly.
[video=youtube;5uwAo8lcAC4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uwAo8lcAC4[/video] I'm just going to drop this here. IMO it is a great and in dept view about video game violence (especially the school shootings)
[QUOTE=RedShirt;40982204] Like guns, we have to be careful who we sell violent video games to. [/quote] No. No we do not. Violent video games are simply media. They are not in any way dangerous on their own. It takes a dangerous person to make them dangerous, and a dangerous person can turn a fucking pencil into a weapon of mass murder. [quote]Think about this: How much do you play video games?[/quote] Way too much to be perfectly honest. [quote] Now, have these games ever influenced you to be violent or attempt to kill anybody? [/quote] None, because I was brought up by parents who cared and thus taught me that what happens on screen is different from real life at a very early age. Like 4-5 years old. I knew the difference between real and virtual before I could spell the word virtual. [quote]and in the past 10 years there have been around 9 mass shootings.[/quote] And of those nine precisely none were causually linked to video games. The media may have tried to pin them all on video games but none were proven to be even partially caused by them. [quote]So the mass murderer most likely morally supports what they are doing as "right".[/quote] There's no most likely to it. They do. They've said so time and again. [quote] America is also a violent country to begin with.[/quote] LOL no. [quote]We also idolize soldiers as super heroes.[/quote] Yeah I'm sure all those homeless Vietnam vets are feeling like idols in their cardboard living rooms right now. And what about Korean vets? Nobody even mentions Korea anymore. That whole war was condensed into a single paragraph in my HS US History books. I've learned more about that war from watching M*A*S*H than I ever did in class. Then there's the massive issue of mental health problems our troops are experiencing, yet getting precisely fuck all help for...and yeah, I'm sure all the Afghanistan vets that are coming home sans a limb or three with scarcely a moment's aid from the VA are feeling idolized right now. If we truly did idolize our troops we wouldn't be sending them into such pointless clusterfucks. We would be giving them the same sort of healthcare, both mental and physical, that Bill Gates can afford without charging them a single fucking penny. We wouldn't be throwing them at random middle eastern countries without a care in the world, and we wouldn't be using them as a tool to brute force our views on the world. We wouldn't be in anywhere near as many wars as we are if we truly did idolize the troops. We'd do our best [i]not[/i] to send them to war because doing so means maiming and killing them by the thousand, which of course is the exact opposite of what you want to do for an idol. [quote] When do you ever here about a charity owner[/quote] They usually don't deserve it. A lot of them funnel more money into pocketbooks/marketing and operations coffers than they do the cause itself, and many are set up as PR stunts by stars that want to look like they care. [quote]or a doctor getting as much respect.[/quote] If an American doctor cracks the cancer cure we'll put 'em on fucking Mount Rushmore most likely. [quote] IN CONCLUSION: It's not the video game's fault, it's the peoples'.[/quote] Indeed. [quote] Parents shouldn't be letting their young/mentally unstable child play violent video games.[/QUOTE] No. Parents should be teaching their young children what the difference between real life and fantasy is at a very young age. Like mine did.
[IMG]http://i1298.photobucket.com/albums/ag50/GlenSH/violence_is_caused_by_video_games__2013-07-06_zpsc3a9858b.jpg[/IMG] In my opinion this kinda proves the argument wrong. You can say "Uhh, well it's obvious that people see violence and perform it" My Dad shoots many kinds of birds. I've never felt the need to go outside and strangle a chicken. It's the person, not the game. Any reasonable person can just say "That's wrong. It's hilarious, but wrong" on the other hand a psycho would say "That's funny, let's go kill my dog."
My Pinion' It depends on the person, The person's upbringing, Maturity, ETC And another thing is that it's the parent's responsibility to judge when the child is mature enough, My parents didn't let me play certain games till i was 15, (I mean have you ever listened to the microphone feed in a COD match?) But it mostly depends if the person is dangerous, As was said before, Fucking anything can be dangerous, Video games are just a "Well crap we need to blame this on SOMEONE"
I myself do not think there is much of a connection. For the kid to become violent from a video game, wouldn't he have to have a serious mental illness in the first place? Even if they do not have a serious mental illness, the parents should teach their kid the difference between things happening in video games and real life. I myself play plenty of violent games, and I never had the urge to hurt someone else or go on a murder spree. The media is just blowing this all out of proportion and doing random finger waving.
I was violent IRL before I started playing video games! :P JK
I believe we're all just violent by nature.. more or less. It has always been the case of "eat or be eaten" anyway, and our history is full of violence and war, so it's really no wonder we like violence in our entertainment so much, and that it leads to some unfortunate incidents sometimes.
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