Across the world, many people participate in playing violent video games and the number of these people is increasing. Even though a vast majority of people play violent video games, there are still others who believe that violent video games promote violence in society. This debate has sparked many different studies and experiments to prove or disprove the link between violence in video games and violence in society. Violent video games have been proven to promote minimal to no violence in society. Violent games can actually be used for people to stimulate their minds. These games, violent or not, act like a stress reliever for people and help them take their mind off of any stress or harmful emotion built up. They also provide somewhat …show more content…
People may believe that someone who played a violent game and then suddenly went out on a killing spree went crazy from the game they played. Many people do not realize that people do not become a psychopath from playing a video game, but instead they were already a psychopath in the first place. If a psychopath is going to kill someone then they would do it regardless if they played a video game or not, but they may play video games to glorify or inspire ideas on how they will murder their victim or victims. Psychopaths are not always easy to point out because they can hide their mental unstableness for a long time before anyone can find out they are crazy and before they end up hurting someone or worse, killing someone. In many cases it is not the video games that are a factor, but instead the mental state of a person should be more looked at to see how mentally instable someone maybe even before they thought of playing the video game in the first …show more content…
Yes, video games do promote violence, but the violence has been proven to be minimal to none at all. Some people may say that not all people have gaming consoles so will those people resort to violence in times of stress? This is an invalid argument because if people do not have a console in the first place, then they cannot be affected by these types of games. Those who do have them can use them as a stress reducer. People who do not have console should find a different stress reliever before too many emotions get built up and cause emotional