Why Do Video Games Cause Violence?

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Introduction The Grand theft auto game allows the player to take the role of a criminal who can roam freely around a big city. Various missions are set for completion, such as bank robberies, assassinations, and other crimes. This video game has sold more than 125 million units, however, it was almost about to be cancelled due to production issues. This game, along with a majority of other types of video games, is known to have a huge influence on teenagers that play this game and has affected them in many ways. This game is all about violence and crimes and that is why it affects a lot of the male population who engage in such video games negatively. The main reason why people enjoy playing this game and get addicted to it is because the …show more content…

This accident probably happened since in the game shooting and killing someone is something really easy to do and get through with it, so children think that they can actually do that too and that is because they are influenced by the game. This game teaches children that the crimes that happen in the game are not a big deal, and that they can easily run away from the trouble that they have caused without having to face major consequences. For instance, when the character in the game gets caught by the police for having done a crime, he is taken to jail and bailed out of it. This would make a boy hold the belief that no matter how bad an action he carries out is, he will find a way to easily get out of it. Therefore, the children are convinced that everything they do in the game is legal in their daily real life. Unfortunately, boys fail to comply with the rules of the game , which is that you have to be over eighteen, since its Rated …show more content…

Girls revealing a lot of cleavage are shown, which negatively affects boys since they are being exposed to adult sceneries at a young age. It results in them growing up confused between reality and fantasy. It also portrays women as weaker than men, since they are only seen as objects that are helpless or existing merely for sexual reasons. An obvious learned behavior that results from GTA and is one of the reasons that it is explicit, is because of the foul language that it includes, which leads to the child picking up bad words and using them

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