It doesn't. But if you want to, ot is easier to be a murderer than a surgeon or a NFL player. And someone mentally unstable would not go on a surgery of field goal kicking rampage. Just saying.
The point still stands though. I don't think videogames cause violence, but this is still a shit argument.
What's it take to be an NFL star? Years of exercise, hard work, commitment, being at the top of your game and being among a select few drafted.
What's it take to be a surgeon? Years of school with exceptional grades, years of medical school, and becoming a certified doctor/surgeon.
Now. How much effort does it take to kill someone? Not the "perfect crime," how much does it take to pull a trigger? 2-3 pounds of trigger pull if that. To run someone over? Stepping on a pedal. To cut a throat?
Don't make excuses for shit arguments, make better arguments.
Probably none becase they didn't exist. Either way correlation is not causation. Just pointing out it is not a good argument because of the reasons mentioned above. I mean, it would probably shut up some people but others could say what I say. Trying for you guys to be ready to debate. Not hating on gamers.
My point is that you can't blame video games for creating violence, or violent tendencies. Violence has always been a part of human nature. It hasn't changed or increased since video games were invented. So, in my opinion, video games aren't to blame for people murdering people.
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Everyone in this thread is in agreement that video games do not in fact make people violent or even more violent.
The disagreement stems from the fact that myself and @itsmemaria believe that this argument is an extremely flawed one.
Equating murder to surgery or being a pro athlete and saying "well video games didn't teach me how to do something that the majority of people are incapable of performing and that most people who even attempt to do so fail at, so obviously they didn't make me violent either," and using that as an argument is flimsier than a politicians backbone.
i think it's less about worrying video games will somehow train people to murder and more about violent video games normalizing/acclimatizing people to violence in general
What's it take to be an NFL star? Years of exercise, hard work, commitment, being at the top of your game and being among a select few drafted.
What's it take to be a surgeon? Years of school with exceptional grades, years of medical school, and becoming a certified doctor/surgeon.
Now. How much effort does it take to kill someone? Not the "perfect crime," how much does it take to pull a trigger? 2-3 pounds of trigger pull if that. To run someone over? Stepping on a pedal. To cut a throat?
Don't make excuses for shit arguments, make better arguments.
The disagreement stems from the fact that myself and @itsmemaria believe that this argument is an extremely flawed one.
Equating murder to surgery or being a pro athlete and saying "well video games didn't teach me how to do something that the majority of people are incapable of performing and that most people who even attempt to do so fail at, so obviously they didn't make me violent either," and using that as an argument is flimsier than a politicians backbone.