Violent video games have been blamed for everything from bullying to school shootings. Critics of these video games believe they cause people to commit violent acts in real life. These critics, mainly comprised of parents and other responsible adults, don’t agree with what the video games portray. Others say the video games cause less violence and are an outlet for anger and stress. Although violent video games have violent actions in them, teenagers should be able to play violent video games because there isn’t enough evidence to prove they make teens more aggressive, it could prevent violence, and violent video games are a fun and relaxing way to relieve stress and anger.
Violet video games have been blamed for several young people killing students at school. Young people are not able to think like adults so they are easy to follow the wrong way of doing things like they see in video games. Other countries do not have the same problems because their laws are strict or their customs for punishing wrong doing is much harder. Some of the violent video games young people like to play are : Grand theft auto, Call to duty, and Assassin. These games show a lot of blood and people getting killed. I believe that not letting children, Teenagers, and young adults play violent video games would improve the life of all in the United States.
What a great fun that I feel when I win a difficult video game, it is really exciting. It took me a very long period to forget the massage on the screen (GAME OVER ).But with the time I realized that Playing violent video games is no more likely to be damaging to young children’s behavior than those considered harmless, so that I choose some researches that can deal with case .
A review of almost a decade of studies found that exposure to violent video games was a "risk factor" for increased aggression. But the same team of experts also said that there was insufficient evidence to conclude that the influence of games led to criminal acts. It is extremely essential to know that playing violent video games more often (in terms of hours) can have a negative influence on gamers especially on adolescents and young adults, but this is not completely accepted by gamers or video game programmers. Further research in this field is essential to figure out the other dimensions that would influence aggressive behaviour other than playing violent video
Why Video Games Don’t Cause Violence The psychology and motives of a violent criminal can vary greatly. Many factors can shape and break a person’s mind, but a single subject is often blamed for violence across the world. Video games, which are meant for entertainment and recreation, are used as a scapegoat for destructive wrongdoings endlessly. However, I do not believe that digital worlds cause mental problems in the physical world, but rather these games cause no impact mentally, with evidence from high level studies and primary sources.
In our time, technology has become one of our essential things in life; specifically video games. Video games are electronic system used to run games. They involve human interaction specially teenagers. Many researches have been done on the effects of video games showing that there is positive and negative impacts.
Shamar McCollough Mrs. Wurst English 4 period 2 Nov 18 2016 Violent Video Games Causes Treacherous Behavior in Kids Kids these days are now to seem to be taking video games into the matter of their own hands. They are wanting to be like some of the violent characters in those video games. Like shoot a gun or rob someone or something. They just want to have the story of how you grow up as a wanted criminal, which is not tolerated by our country today.
Violent Video Games Society overreacts and needlessly blames video games for all violence. Children are the main target for video games. Violent video games do not make kids just wake up and go and shoot up a school, video games are just a way for kids to release anger. People who never played video games before always think just because you play any type of violent video game they think it's going to make you a violent person, when in reality them saying that is just gonna get you angry and then make you wanna get violent with them. Even the president of the United States thinks video games are bad for kids because he said “Video game violence & glorification must be stopped it’s creating monsters” (“Kain 1-3”)
Argument Essay Violent role playing games are good for young people Have you ever been in that moment when you keyed in? You are playing a violent role play game like Fortnite and you are in the top ten concentrating so hard to win the game. Your heart is racing you have to tone everything down so you can concentrate and be aware of every surrounding near you. This has happened to you if you have played games like PubG or Fortnite and many more violent role play games.
Violence on the internet, video games, movies, and TV has led to more aggression in people. The viewing of violent video games causes kids to become bullies. The viewing of violent video games causes kids to get used to playing them, and act more violently in real life. “
lex I agree with you that video game violence is not the reason behind why children act out and have violent behavior. I like how you point out that before video games there were other forms that we as a society would point towards and give life to the reason why we have violent behaviors. I know we even look at sports, and when there is an issue of rape or domestic violence they say that the aggressive behavior from the sport gave rise to this action. Could it be that they just have a natural violent behavior from things outside or that they view rape as more acceptable in their mind. I recently just saw a poll that was given to high school students about whether or not they view certain situations as that it would be acceptable for rape
Bad Effects of Violent Video Games: Most of the bad effects of video games because of their violence they contain. Thus children who play more violent and dangerous video games are more likely to have increased of aggressive thoughts, behavior, feelings and decreased in prosocial helping. The effect of violence video games in children is worsened by the games’ interactive nature. For the repeated cases of violence in video games, the child is in control of the violence and experiences in his own eye by killing, kicking, stabbing and shooting in games. Too much playing of violent video game will make the kid socially isolated.
The video gaming creates so many problems in our society. Johnson’s points, “The worst that can be said is that they sanction, and even promote aggression and violent responses to conflict. But what can be said with much greater certainty is this: most computer games are a colossal waste of time” (17). Johnson’s describes that the video gaming and the technology create aggression and violent behaviors in the users, and most games are just a waste of time. To illustrate, my 8-year-old nephew loves video games.
Romeo Vitelli, Ph.D., a psychologist in private practice in Toronto, Canada, cites “A new research study published in the journal Psychology of Media Culture takes a comprehensive look at different risk factors of violence, including playing video games. Whitney de Camp of Western Michigan University used data taken from the 2008 Delaware School Survey to assess violence risk in 6567 Grade Eight children. Students were asked about violent and pre-violent behaviour, i.e., “hit someone with the intention of hurting them,” “take some kind of weapon to school or to a school event,” and “carry a gun when you’re not in school.” “According to the study results, playing violent video games didn 't appear to be related to any of the violent behaviours that the researchers examined. For both males and females, the two factors most successful in predicting risk of hitting someone in the previous year were seeing or hearing violence at home and being high in sensation-seeking.”
Children around the world play adult content video game And many parents say it is bad for their children; however video games can actually help their children learn. Approximately 90% of children in the United States play video games, and more than 90% of those games involve mature content that often includes violence (Park, 2014). There are those that believe video games are detrimental to society, however playing video games including those with mature content can actually be beneficial to both individuals and society by increasing knowledge expanding the ability to react positively at real life situations and improving cognitive thinking skills. Children that play video games not only have the potential to increase their ability to learn right from wrong, and to improve their cognitive thinking skills the game can also increase a child’s knowledge.