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Why Do Video Games Cause Violence?

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Let’s take a trip down memory lane. What we’re going to see is violence. Violence has been around forever. There was violence in World War 1. There was violence in the Revolutionary War. There was violence in the Roman Empire. There was even violence in the Bible. Violence has been around since the beginning of mankind, yet video games haven’t been around for half that time. In fact video games have only recently come about in the last few decades. With that in mind it would be ridiculous to say that video games cause violence when they haven’t even been around long enough to prove that there is a real connection between the two. That’s why there is no real link between video game violence and real world violence. One compelling piece of evidence …show more content…

Rock n’ roll, television, movies, mystery novels, even Shakespeare, all of these things were once believed to be a major cause of violence in our youth (Bezio). This is because when we are children, things are joyful and carefree. Children don’t have a care in the world, other than if they are going to miss the premiere of a new episode of their favorite cartoon. When they grow up to be responsible adults, they get to see what the world is really like, the good the bad and the ugly. So of course they look back to the days when times were better and wonder “What the heck happened to this world!?” What could have happened to this once so wonderful world, what could have gone wrong? While in search for these answers we often take a look at the technology that didn’t exist 20, 30, or 40 years ago and think “Man we didn’t have that back in the day when we were kids that must be why society is so messed up now (Bezio). The problem is it’s a never ending cycle. There will always be new technology the new generation will grow up with that wasn’t around in their parent’s time, and that technology will always be criticized by the older

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Violence is easily seen in today's culture through criminal actions in the media. Surprisingly, "on average, American youth view more than 1,000 murders, rapes, and assaults each year" (Rockefeller 2). This shocking fact demonstrates just how prevalent violence is in the young minds of Americans. As a result of these viewings, young adults are sure to have psychological effects. Studies have proven that "children who view media violence are more likely to have increased feelings of hostility, decreased emotional response to the portrayal of violence and injury that lead to violent behavior through imitation" (Tompkins 1).

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A it was a result by event A (401). Video games nowadays are all about violence, mature content, and suggestive themes. In “Is video game violence bad,” written by Christopher Ferguson, the author proposes there is no correlation between violent video games and

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This is evidenced by this quote from Kain’s article: "There's no consistency in the aggression literature, and my impression is that at this point it is not strong enough to draw any kind of causal, or even really correlational links between video game violence and aggression, no matter how weakly we may define aggression (Kain para 26).” this indicates that simulated violence does not cause real world violence, since, if it is researched, shootings in relation to M rated games (that include violence) sales, they show little to no connection. In addition, this argument is further evidenced by another quote from kain’s article: "A look at global video game spending per capita in relation to gun death statistics reveals that gun deaths in the United States far outpace those in other countries—including countries with higher per capita video game spending. (Kain Para 27). " this further demonstrates how video games don't have any relation to real world violence since America has one of the highest amounts of shootings in the world, even though other countries sell way more video games than we

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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”)

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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

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