Does playing Mario Cart make me an excellent driver? No. Does playing a Cooking Fever make me a chef? No. Video games don't always make children violent.
Still playing Mario Kart: Double Dash for 11 1/2 years and still haven't got a ticket. Of course, the police never catch me because I dump my bananas on the road to spin them out.
People who don't understand the psychology behind violence will look to anything they can point fingers at to blame the worlds problems on. It used to be metal and then it shifted to video games but as time goes on something else will become the go to blame for violence.
I play gta v online and I'm normally a very violent person anyways but it actually relaxes me to just drive in circles and rob a store before stealing a plane..
Wait, so atheist who were born into a religion or were very really religious are not really atheist? This only applies to Stalin. I'm not here to start an argument but that is the message you guys are giving me by saying Stalin used to be part of a religion.
Online violent video games do tend however to make someone language much fouler. A vast majority of the players used coarse language, so in order to fit in, younger/new players use it too. But no, they don't make you violent as such.
I actually saw something similar but instead of kids who did and didn't play, they only took kids who did play. The ones who were more violent towards the games and felt no remorse for killing pixels were more sociopathic but those that did feel bad were normal.
Actually i did an entire presentation on whether or not video games make kids violent. It was said that the video game kids have less aggressive qualities because the video game is used as an outlet.
There have been many studies showing absolutely no connection between violent gamers and violence. Scientists studied violent gamers and non gamers and there was absolutley no connection. I am looking for the source of this and i'll post it later
I didn't say mine was a fact, I just said I read something about it. The source is long gone so take it with a grain of salt. ( is that the right phrase ? )
It's stupid to blame it all on videogames. Maybe some kids were influenced by them, but it's unfair to generalize all gamers as violent. Do you think Islam is horrible just because of some terrorists? Do you think school is horrible just because some students commit suicide over stress? Yes, violent video games may influence children, but you can't group everyone together.
Hmm. I play TF2, does that mean I want to run around in real life and sniper everyone and torch them with a flamethrower?
No
I'm gonna share an experience here
Since I was little I have played " violent " video games such as the GTA series, all the DOAs, a few mortal combats, and a few others.
I'm the chillest person you'd ever meet, though.
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I play Skyrim a lot.
A LOT.
DO I LOOK LIKE THE KING OF PERSON WHO'LL GO AROUND AND START BASHING PEOPLE'S FACES IN WITH A SHIELD AND DECAPITATING OTHER PEOPLE?
No. I am very polite and nice behind the screen.
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If they become murderous, the games only gave them ideas.
If somebody does something violent because of video games, it certainly wouldn't of just been the games. They likely had something beforehand that would of lead to violence in the first place. If you don't make a distinction between games and reality, then something was already wrong with you.
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The games aren't blame when children do murderous things.
There's a book called " Bad Seed ", for those that haven't read it it's about a murderous child and the mother finds out her own mother ( who abandoned her ) was a serial killer.
This was before video games were as violent and graphic as they are today. Video games weren't even that common place then. But children would still snap and kill people.
Couldn't the thing causing people to be violent then be the same as what's causing them to now? Video games are just a scape goat.
Stephen Kings Book Rage, a book about how a student holds his teacher and students hostage, was attributed to causing school violence such as school shootings before metal music. In the 80-00's school shootings such as columbine were attributed to metal music before video games. From the 90-10's violence in schools was attributed to video games. This isn't some new thing. School shootings have been happening since before the United States existed. I'll post some links to the earliest school shootings that had nothing to do with video games.
Yeah, the way I see it is if you're the kind of person that's going to kill someone (with exceptions of war, self defence etc) you've already got that mindset, wether you play a game or not. There have been murders inspired by horror films but I can bet you these people would have gone out and killed someone even if the film that "inspired" them was never released
Earliest school shooting in recorded US colonial history was in 1764 where three men charged a school and killed 10 children and the headmaster. 1 child survived. Video games nowhere to be seen.
That last comment by ecumenicalmatter nails it with most psychological findings -to act upon violent thoughts is often a compilation of multiple factors that play with each other: genetics, cognitive processes, nurture, mental/psychological states, etc. Video games could maybe provide some ideas, but only to those that have that predetermined mental state already... And if that's the case, many other mundane things could prove the "spark" to such minds.
Hmm. I play TF2, does that mean I want to run around in real life and sniper everyone and torch them with a flamethrower?
No
Since I was little I have played " violent " video games such as the GTA series, all the DOAs, a few mortal combats, and a few others.
I'm the chillest person you'd ever meet, though.
A LOT.
DO I LOOK LIKE THE KING OF PERSON WHO'LL GO AROUND AND START BASHING PEOPLE'S FACES IN WITH A SHIELD AND DECAPITATING OTHER PEOPLE?
No. I am very polite and nice behind the screen.
This was before video games were as violent and graphic as they are today. Video games weren't even that common place then. But children would still snap and kill people.
Couldn't the thing causing people to be violent then be the same as what's causing them to now? Video games are just a scape goat.