Do Violent Video Games like Manhunt enforce violent and criminal behaviour within children?
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No.
Unless you are part of the very VERY small group of people known only as WINDOW LICKING RETARDS.
Its a game for god sake, if you killed someone while making dinner would it be the foods fault? (Yes I quoted that from someone but I cant for the life of me remember where)
Unless you are part of the very VERY small group of people known only as WINDOW LICKING RETARDS.
Its a game for god sake, if you killed someone while making dinner would it be the foods fault? (Yes I quoted that from someone but I cant for the life of me remember where)
I've been doing my Graphic project on this... I want to design posters promoting the good side of video games 
Anyway, I did some research into violent games like Manhunt and Gears of War, and I was looking at some cases of crimes commited by people who have said to have been 'inspired by video games'.
In more cases than not, the allegations surrounding video games have been dropped in court.
Therefore, I think people should be allowed to play these games, after all if they weren't gory or whatever then it's not as much fun or realistic. In a sense.
I'm a wimp anyway, I don't play gory games. Heck, I had to play Half Life 2 with the lights on
Anyway, I did some research into violent games like Manhunt and Gears of War, and I was looking at some cases of crimes commited by people who have said to have been 'inspired by video games'.
In more cases than not, the allegations surrounding video games have been dropped in court.
Therefore, I think people should be allowed to play these games, after all if they weren't gory or whatever then it's not as much fun or realistic. In a sense.
I'm a wimp anyway, I don't play gory games. Heck, I had to play Half Life 2 with the lights on
short answer: NO
long answer:this cannot be since crime (especialy voilence and theft crimes) has plumited down by ca 25-30 percent since 1997, and as we all know GTA came out in 97.
the same can be said about Manhunt and similar titles, its just that crime has been more debatted now than before the third-fifth game generation (acording to wikipedia).
long answer:this cannot be since crime (especialy voilence and theft crimes) has plumited down by ca 25-30 percent since 1997, and as we all know GTA came out in 97.
the same can be said about Manhunt and similar titles, its just that crime has been more debatted now than before the third-fifth game generation (acording to wikipedia).
Of course we're going to be biased, but that's ok. As long as we're willing to argue rationally and politely and admit defeat if we're definitively proven wrong, then it's ok to be biased.Fro-Up said:
Now, on to my answer: No.
I wrote a research paper on this once. I don't have it available right now, but basically it says that video games are the scape-goats of our generation, just as MTV was the scapegoat of a generation before us. Remember when parents blamed MTV when their kids disobeyed? Now how ridiculous does it sound?
Do violent video games make kids violent, or do violent kids like to play violent video games? I'd like to see the stats of the number of kids who play GTA and the number of crimes that are attributed to it. I bet it's less than 1%. As many people have said before, Correlation ≠ Causation. And what about other forms of media? Why isn't the movie "300", where there is a surprising amount of decapitations, being blamed for violence? What about family abuse or lack of friends at school? How sure are we that these people who caused violence and blame video games for teaching them were stable-minded well-adjusted people in the first place?
I'm not saying that video games can't cause violence at all, but rather there is no proof that they do cause violence. A perspective of a simple mind would say that "If I kid plays a game where he shoots people, then goes out and shoots people, the video game obviously taught him to shoot people" but it's much MUCH more complicated than that. Don't be a simple mind.
i have aswered this question so many times
i have played games all my life i did play games
such as GTA MK and even Diablo when i was a kid
but now im 15 and dont have a violent thought
in my mind so no i do not think that games cause
little children to go wacco and start shooting people
i have played games all my life i did play games
such as GTA MK and even Diablo when i was a kid
but now im 15 and dont have a violent thought
in my mind so no i do not think that games cause
little children to go wacco and start shooting people
I'm going to go out on a whim here and say if a kid plays nothing but games where he snaps peoples necks and bluggens them to death then yes, probably. Depends how thick they are.
I think you mean "encourage", not enforce. It's pretty impossible for GTA to reach out of the disc drive and say "GO JACK A CAR, OR I'll BREAK YOUR FACE!"
That would be awesome.
That would be awesome.
No they don't. Children should not be playing games like that any way. If children do for any reason it should be told to them that it is only a game and that behavior like that should never be done in real life. However no parent is smart enough to do that.