Video games= violance

[one wing angel]

okay im doing a paper on the so called "link" between violance and video games and i need some feed back on other peoples opinions on the topic. it is a persuasive paper and im trying to disprove it but i need both types of feed back so i thought id make a thread please help if you can thank you

[blinkboy211]

There really isnt a link. If you want to do a paper on it find something on Thompson and just refute everything he says. I mean come on its too easy and should be an easy paper that you end up writing more than expected.

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I didnt find this link but Randomizer gave it out in chat.

[Clone]

Oh my god that chinese guy is an idoit or actualy hes quite clever. any way i think that it not true that video game contribute to real violence. any way they have an age rateing and it should be the parents foault if any under age kid plays a game thats to old for them.

But to be honest iv watch videos and game underage for all my life and im by no means violent in any way.

[one wing angel]

Originally Posted by blinkboy211

There really isnt a link. If you want to do a paper on it find something on Thompson and just refute everything he says. I mean come on its too easy and should be an easy paper that you end up writing more than expected.

Chinese Teen Burns Classmate, Blames World Of Warcraft | Game | Life from Wired.com
I didnt find this link but Randomizer gave it out in chat.

yeah that's what im doing however i need outside opinions this paper is worth 500 points so i can't fail it

[neishasmamma]

Violence has nothing to do with freaking video games. Way before games were even around there was violence. What it is...is that some kid has failed in society and can't stay out of trouble so instead of blaming there selfs for the failure the parents have decided to blame video games.

[Leonard]

Originally Posted by Clone

it should be the parents foault if any under age kid plays a game thats to old for them.

I'm sorry, but this is completely wrong.

There are ways and means for kids nowadays to get all kinds of video games for various age groups.

Of course it is part of the parents responsibility, but they can't be blamed for everything. They're just humans, too.

[Clone]

Of course it is part of the parents responsibility, but they can't be blamed for everything. They're just humans, too.

Im not blaming parents for every thing but the do have the responsibily to look after there kids, obviously if ur like a 15 year old or what ever they may be more like to get older games. Then u can blame the kids, how ever i should of metion that i was talking of younger kids i admit.

One things for sure u cant just blindly blame games and totaly forget the fact that it is the kids or their parents fault that there violent. Atleast the could find proof that games r a direct reason for kids violent behaviour, which i doupt will be easy to find.

[Leonard]

Originally Posted by Clone

Atleast the could find proof that games r a direct reason for kids violent behaviour, which i doupt will be easy to find.

Well, it has been said several times before in the media that video games alone are surely not the only cause of violent behaviour.

There are other things with which it just adds up (for example personal experiences, media, etc). =/

[Zook]

the game itself is not the problem, the kid playing the game is the problem. It is a gamer's responsibility to realize what is real and what is not. Shooting random people doesn't get you wanted levels in real life like it does in GTA. If you cannot decipher between the two you shouldn't be playing video games.

[SuperNova]

i played games with gore,violence when i first started gaming,im not feeling violent,yes,it's the person's mind that makes him/her violent.

[Ningacom]

Lol, I hate this subject ;P. Seriously, video games do not cause violence. If anything games like GTA and Halo reduce violence. Think about it "Hmmm... I can beat the hell outta some real person... or a fake person ". They essentially have the same affect on angry kids as those tiny rubber balls. It's like blaming a History teacher who was explaining a war to his/her students when all of a sudden one of them decides to shoot the class.

But of coarse, instead of blaming the obvious culprits (adults and peers), we decide to blame video games because they're already frowned upon by most of society.

[SuperNova]

right,the people surrounding them influence there anger......

[madammina]

While I can see the desensitization argument put forward by most of society (and let's be fair the first T non Guitar Hero Game I played was Twilight Princess) If a person feels ill, they are free to stop playing. I have 2 brothers, both younger than me. The older of the two bought Golden Eye for N64. He wanted to play the 2 player mode, so he got my younger brother (whose played DMC, and TP) to play it. My younger of the two brothers got very uncomfortable and left the game. And that is my argument against desensitization.

[SuperNova]

they can give up playing but it will still run in there minds.

[violent_anger]

I did this last year. Here's my work cited, if it helps


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