Poll: Do Video Games cause violent behavior?
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Actual statistics show that people who play video games, and in particular, are actually LESS prone to violence than people who don't, because they have an outlet for their agression.
Most violent crimes commited because of or inspired by video games are committed by people who shouldn't have been playing them, such as 15 and 16 year olds playing M rated games, or people with mental illness already backing them that is not being treated.
Incidentally, violence from video games has also been decreasing, until 2004, where it jumped a tiny bit. There were no significant events in video gaming that year, but it WAS the year with Idiot du Jourge W Bush was re-elected.
From this we can conclude that it isn't video games that cause violence and suicide, it's republicans who think Paris Hilton deserves a 35k purse more than people like, say, my mother, need surgery to save their lives.
I play video games, did it make me violent and hateful? No. Is watching my mother slowly die in front of me when she isn't even 50, I'm only 20, and my little brother only 14, and somehow despite all the sacrifices she's made for us, she still deserves to not only die, but die slowly and painfully.
That is what causes violence my friend. Saying "I wish you mom had insurance and could get her surgeries and medicine and stuff" does nothing. You want to know why I hate america? because in britain, or canada, or any CIVILIZED country not run by RETARDED APES WITH COMPUTERIZED EMOTION SIMULATORS THAT RUN ON MONEY, my mom would get help.
Republicans cause violence. Maybe not all of them, but most of them.
And before anyone says "If you worked harder blahblahblah", we have been working. Mom lost her job, because the new manager didn't like her. She has spent every day, same as me, either looking for work, or cleaning houses for my aunts in exchange for a bit of money to survive, and her unemployment runs out soon, so we'll be even worse off.
Most violent crimes commited because of or inspired by video games are committed by people who shouldn't have been playing them, such as 15 and 16 year olds playing M rated games, or people with mental illness already backing them that is not being treated.
Incidentally, violence from video games has also been decreasing, until 2004, where it jumped a tiny bit. There were no significant events in video gaming that year, but it WAS the year with Idiot du Jourge W Bush was re-elected.
From this we can conclude that it isn't video games that cause violence and suicide, it's republicans who think Paris Hilton deserves a 35k purse more than people like, say, my mother, need surgery to save their lives.
I play video games, did it make me violent and hateful? No. Is watching my mother slowly die in front of me when she isn't even 50, I'm only 20, and my little brother only 14, and somehow despite all the sacrifices she's made for us, she still deserves to not only die, but die slowly and painfully.
That is what causes violence my friend. Saying "I wish you mom had insurance and could get her surgeries and medicine and stuff" does nothing. You want to know why I hate america? because in britain, or canada, or any CIVILIZED country not run by RETARDED APES WITH COMPUTERIZED EMOTION SIMULATORS THAT RUN ON MONEY, my mom would get help.
Republicans cause violence. Maybe not all of them, but most of them.
And before anyone says "If you worked harder blahblahblah", we have been working. Mom lost her job, because the new manager didn't like her. She has spent every day, same as me, either looking for work, or cleaning houses for my aunts in exchange for a bit of money to survive, and her unemployment runs out soon, so we'll be even worse off.
in general no, but there will no doubt be outliers who are, just like there will be those for whom the moon causes violence... at which point the video games are more likely just to be a catalyst and less likely to be the root cause
as a side note, a poll on a website is hardly going to be accepted as statistical data on any level... would be better if you searched google for an academic journal with an article that supports your thesis, however vaguely, and just reference that... "studies have shown..." works wonders
as a side note, a poll on a website is hardly going to be accepted as statistical data on any level... would be better if you searched google for an academic journal with an article that supports your thesis, however vaguely, and just reference that... "studies have shown..." works wonders
Violent people are drawn to violence. That is the only reason they play the game. We do not require such filth creating stereotypes for us to the unwashed, uneducated media. That being said, I've shot millions of U.S. Army soldiers escaping from Black Mesa Research Facility, I've roamed deserts with a pistol raiding bandits and merchants alike in Fallout, and I've been hired for shady oddjobs involving assassinating seemingly random people for money and pleasure in Hitman. I do no such things in my life. So no, America's young and impressionable people aren't being corrupted by video games.
The majority will be uneffecticed by those types od games as far as showing acts of aggression simply by playing violent content while a a certain percent of peoiple are influental to Agressive/violent media who'll wish to re-enact or do similar deeds.
I think other froms of violent tendencies are just from more violent mindset.
I think other froms of violent tendencies are just from more violent mindset.
I would say yes but not to a full extent...
As a gamer for over 90% of my life I find that sometimes gaming ideas pop into my head during real world events.
They are as harmless as thinking about what it would be like if physics worked like Tetris blocks, or as dangerous as considering different subtle ways of murdering someone quickly and quietly.
I fortunatly have enough sense not to listen to the dark ones but there are people out there who wont distinguish and will move to the path of killing someone and stealing their wallet just because thats what you do in Saints Row 2.
In conclusion, I would say that it is mainly the people, but video games plants the creative seeds and sometimes just puts the blunt ideas into the heads.
As a gamer for over 90% of my life I find that sometimes gaming ideas pop into my head during real world events.
They are as harmless as thinking about what it would be like if physics worked like Tetris blocks, or as dangerous as considering different subtle ways of murdering someone quickly and quietly.
I fortunatly have enough sense not to listen to the dark ones but there are people out there who wont distinguish and will move to the path of killing someone and stealing their wallet just because thats what you do in Saints Row 2.
In conclusion, I would say that it is mainly the people, but video games plants the creative seeds and sometimes just puts the blunt ideas into the heads.
I said maybe, as biased as I am toward video game violence.
While there have been several (incredibly biased) accounts of people going crazy, and of course they play video games so that HAS to be a main factor for their craziness, there are games out there which are not violent, or are violent and are useful for blowing off steam. Not crazy.
Games are a form of escapism - the imagination allows us to kill people/things in our minds and on our screens so that we don't have to go and grab a knife and kill a random bystander.
If anything, with someone playing video games, the other half or other family members are more likely to get violent from lack of attention.
Me, I love my video games bloody and full of squishy meatbags. My sister, on the other hand WILL get violent if she plays something like GTA. It has been proven. So therefore she has been banned from playing it. Problem solved.
While there have been several (incredibly biased) accounts of people going crazy, and of course they play video games so that HAS to be a main factor for their craziness, there are games out there which are not violent, or are violent and are useful for blowing off steam. Not crazy.
Games are a form of escapism - the imagination allows us to kill people/things in our minds and on our screens so that we don't have to go and grab a knife and kill a random bystander.
If anything, with someone playing video games, the other half or other family members are more likely to get violent from lack of attention.
Me, I love my video games bloody and full of squishy meatbags. My sister, on the other hand WILL get violent if she plays something like GTA. It has been proven. So therefore she has been banned from playing it. Problem solved.
if some one is of a violent disposion then they are going to go and commit violent acts no matter what they view or play blaming video games for peoples violent behaviour is just an excuse for people because they cant solve the direct problem so they blame it on an easy target no one ever blames football matches for when football hooligans cause riots there just using video games as an easy target to blame for a problem they cant solve on its own
For anyone in full possession of one's faculties, no.
For one that have some kind of pre-existing condition of the relevant kind, maybe.
For one that have some kind of pre-existing condition of the relevant kind, maybe.
it causes violence no more than martial arts, or TV, and movies cause violence in people.
seriously, they all can intice a play violence, and a discussion of it, but for actual like beating people up, breaking bones/objects, even death, very rare in all of thoes things. sometimes maybe there's that one guy, that it does cause him to go cause problems, yeah, it happens. sometimes something is just the last straw for some people, but in both cases, pretty much anything could have caused it
seriously, they all can intice a play violence, and a discussion of it, but for actual like beating people up, breaking bones/objects, even death, very rare in all of thoes things. sometimes maybe there's that one guy, that it does cause him to go cause problems, yeah, it happens. sometimes something is just the last straw for some people, but in both cases, pretty much anything could have caused it
if they're older than six, no. I think I'm about the opposite of a serial killer: i can't stand to see things in pain, it just makes me sick.
So frustrating!!! Makes me want to kil-hug someone...you know, with all the rainbows and unicorns. Yes.Pirate Kitty said:
Video games clearly do not cause violence. Video games in Japan are much more violent than in America and yet their crime rates are much lower. Violent behavior is caused by other means although video games may give an all ready unstable person ideas of how to act.
Well no they don't there are many other factors to consider. In some people which have trouble with reality and dream world then yes it might for them and people with underlying mental or psychological problem yes it could cause it for them. Video games are no more violent than people watching sports and I have seen them act way worse or on par on how I act in semi competitive play which is something I am actually actively involved in whereas they just observe.
Hehe Yeah. My friend was really bad at super street fighter 4 and we played from 1 in the afternoon to 1 in the Morning and the score ended up 81-14 to me. He raged something chronic. Good times.IamQ said:
But OT no They don't.