The Effects of Violent Video Games on Children
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The arguments that video games cause kids to do violent or unlawful acts are complete horse shit. If someone has it in them to do something illegal a simulated experience isn't going to bring that out.
god yes and even if a child learns such violence in a game its up to the parents to teach them the difference between right and wrong, reality and fiction, legal and illegal. That's my little rant for the day
I've never believed that videogames promote violent behaviour in children. I've always thought that education level, socio-economoic status, parenting and even things such as hormone levels are the main contributing factors to violence.
The idea that videogames are promoting violent activities in children is just another way of drawing attention away from methods which need to be put into place to help curb violent behaviour, namely better educational systems in schools and efforts to reduce bullying and violent behaviour in children which helps to make precedents and gives them a way of acting for the rest of their lives.
The idea that videogames are promoting violent activities in children is just another way of drawing attention away from methods which need to be put into place to help curb violent behaviour, namely better educational systems in schools and efforts to reduce bullying and violent behaviour in children which helps to make precedents and gives them a way of acting for the rest of their lives.
Ha the Onion is amazing.
Off topic (in a sense) violent video games don't cause violent behavior and it's been proven.
Off topic (in a sense) violent video games don't cause violent behavior and it's been proven.
It doesn't show cause and effect.
Yes, maybe violent video games make children more violent. -OR- Can it be that children that are more predisposed to violence tend to like violent video games more??
OoOoOoOoO! It's the old "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" mentality!
Yes, maybe violent video games make children more violent. -OR- Can it be that children that are more predisposed to violence tend to like violent video games more??
OoOoOoOoO! It's the old "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" mentality!
I actually believe in the opposite of all these claims. In my philosophy (if you will) I think that games help relieve stress. When I have a bad day, nothing calms me down like mowing down hoards of zombies in L4D.
Depends on the level of maturity of the person playing the game. If, for example, an average 10 year old kid is playing something like GTA then yeah, the video game might be having a negative influence... But that's why we have ratings on games.
And I dont know about where you guys are but here where I am you can't buy a Mature(17+) or Teen rated game unless you're 17+ or a teen so really, it's up to the parents what games their children play. So a 10 year old playing an overly violent game is the parents fault.
Off-topic here but I really wish parents would pay attention to the ratings. I can't count how many times I've been in my local game store and heard a parents bitching out the store clerk for selling them a game that is inapropriate for their children when the game's rating and what the game contains is on the back of the box. And the rating itself is also on the front.
And I dont know about where you guys are but here where I am you can't buy a Mature(17+) or Teen rated game unless you're 17+ or a teen so really, it's up to the parents what games their children play. So a 10 year old playing an overly violent game is the parents fault.
Off-topic here but I really wish parents would pay attention to the ratings. I can't count how many times I've been in my local game store and heard a parents bitching out the store clerk for selling them a game that is inapropriate for their children when the game's rating and what the game contains is on the back of the box. And the rating itself is also on the front.
Enough with the violent video games stuff! I'm sick of it!
They don't cause violence, violent kids are attracted to them!
They don't cause violence, violent kids are attracted to them!
>.> Your title is deceptive. I suggest changing it to "Would video games teach our children how to survive the Apocalypse?"
Personally, I see it teaching children a few practical thing. Which thing.. I don't know... but you can probably find somethi-OH! I know something I learned from violent video games, "Don't shoot patients in the medical ward. Everyone will hate you and come at your with guns."
So yes, I do believe you can there are some positive effects to violent video games =P
There are some negative but whatever >.>
Personally, I see it teaching children a few practical thing. Which thing.. I don't know... but you can probably find somethi-OH! I know something I learned from violent video games, "Don't shoot patients in the medical ward. Everyone will hate you and come at your with guns."
So yes, I do believe you can there are some positive effects to violent video games =P
There are some negative but whatever >.>
I agree with you! I think everything depends on the parents. I'm sure that if parents would interact more with their kids they could seek creative ways to increase the acceptance, popularity, and availability of games that are relatively prosocial, educational, and fun. The kids would be more happy and aware of dangers and understand what violence effectively is if someone explains it to them. I've read something online about some projects, such as "Games for Health Project", aimed to to support parent and child interaction. Here is a very nice example of it: http://revision3.com/tbhs/gamesharePsypherus said:
Kids are very influential, so yeah, violent video games causes kids to think that kind of stuff is cool, but they do realize that doing it in real life would be wrong, so they keep buying all the GTA, and COD clones just to go crazy and run over some people.
