Did you know that the average amount of time an 8-18 American child spends on video games per week is 8 hours? That’s a more than a whole school day! Many kids today are spending more and more time on video games. Not only is it damaging to the brain and body, but it also can cause insanity and dementia. Many of the mass murderers of the past have been found to play violent video games. Teens should not be permitted to play violent video games to ensure that they will not become aggressive.
Children that Play violent video games are most likely to cause violence to others. “Video games cause children to be more aggressive towards others. Exposing children and adolescents (or “youth”) to violent visual media increases the likelihood that they will engage in physical aggression against another person” (Anderson). The children who play the violent video games are like to have short tempers and get mad easily. The kids will most likely want to start fights in school. Kids will probably be rude to their teachers, other classmates, and also their parents. The kids probably learned ways to fight from the video games. Kids will want to try fighting with the moves they learn from video games.
I suppose the first thing I should say is: I feel it is in no way the moral responsibility of the game manufacturers to curb the content they put into games. That being said, a few of the reasons they are trying to ban violent video games as according to psychologists is: Children may become more aggressive and develop favorable attitudes about the use of violence to resolve conflicts. Children may become desensitized to violence in the real world around them, less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others, and more willing to tolerate ever-increasing levels of violence. Children may begin to believe that the real world is as mean and dangerous in real life as it appears on the media and in video games (www.salsa.net). To this I ask: what about me? What about people like me? Responsible, moderately well rounded, educated adults? Should I not get to play the games that were intended for me? And the truth is, the games that everyone is up in arms over are made for me, an adult. That’s why the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) was implemented. Not unlike movie ratings the ESRB provide information about video and computer game content before u make a purchase. ESRB ratings have two parts: the rating symbols which suggest age appropriateness for the game, and the content descriptors which indicate elements in a game that may have led to the rating symbol or may inform you of questionable content (www.
Most video games do contain violence, involving weapons used to do the killing. Games like Halo, Call of duty, and as well as Titanfall are just some games the people are able to kill enemies with weapons such as guns, knives, explosives, and other things. But, the idea of video games causing violence is not logical, because in reality video games were made for entertainment. Games are no different than movies or any form of entertainment. Also it can be proven that video games do not cause violence with professional studies. These studies performed show that most violent video games do cause anger, but it is only short term aggression with most people. Also it is showed that video games help people manage their feels in turn it helps them deal with life problems. Video games also cause some good such as this little “Violent juvenile crime in the United States has been declining as violent video game popularity has increased. The arrest rate for juvenile murders has fallen 71.9% between 1995 and 2008. The arrest rate for all juvenile violent crimes has declined 49.3%. In this sam...
Violent Video Games: Dangerous Entertainment
Since the beginning of organized society, entertainment has always been an aspect closely tied with human nature. From the times of ancient empires, such as the Romans and Greeks, humans have used entertainment as an outlet to escape the harsh reality of everyday life. Although in those times, entertainment was considered duels to the death with animals and other humans opposed to the censored reality shows and formulaic movies we have today.
In the 21st Century, video games have become more popular every year. I mean why not? It's an easy way t pass time and escape from from boredom.Especially since there are video games for each age group.The video game creators make huge alternate worlds where players can go live in when they get bored of real life. The only problem is that video games are getting more and more violent as years progress. This raises the questions like "Do Video games desensitize its users as well as its youth"? And "Are video games with violence bad for our children"? As of now, there is no definite answer. We have people making the accusations and then we also have people disagreeing with those accusations. There are ways that can keep our youth from playing this violent games and help reduce the amount of violent crimes, which include;
To completely distance children from violent video games would be extremely difficult. According to the Children NOW organization (an organization “for people who care about children and want to ensure that they are the top public priority”) 89% of video games have some form of violence and 50% have some form of serious violence. These numbers indicate that the ultimate goal of the game is to perform an act of violence, ranging from killing or assaulting character...
Do you play video games? Or maybe your friend, your sibling, your child plays video games? From the earliest games, Pong and Pac-Man, to the most recent games, Star Craft II and Halo Reach, it has been about 40 years. Evolving with our technology, video games originally played on big arcade machines have moved to small consoles we see today, making it available to all those that can afford it. With the wide variety of old and new video games, it has become one of the most popular entertainment in the world, especially with the recent rise of social gaming made available by social website like “Facebook”, allowing video games to reach a much more broad audience from the very young to the very old. With so many people playing video games, video games, like television, soon became the topic of many controversies. Such as video game addiction, gender stereotypes, age of people playing video games, and video games in relation to aggressive behavior. After hearing all the controversies claiming that video games are a bad influence to the children, many parents started to prohibit or completely ban their kids from playing video games. But do video games really as bad an influence on the children as they say it does? No they don’t. Parent should not try to stop their children from playing video games based on the fact that they believe video games are an absolute bad influence on their children without actual research and proof.
As we evolve into a more advanced species, so does our technology, and along with our overly advanced technology, comes video game. Video game has been around for decades and making people’s lives a lot more entertaining and less dull. However, everything is fun and games until somebody gets hurt, and that’s exactly what has happened over the years to video game. It’s commonly known nowadays that video game, to the majority, is the cause of violence. Whether if this is true or not, video game has definitely been used as a scapegoat for many mass shootings and violent outbreaks in general. While there are, solid reasons to believe that video game do indeed cause violence, many observations, research, and studies claim that it does not. Violent
Supporters of government censorship in regards to video games usually are doing so for what they deem to be noble causes. Their strongest argument consists of their desire to protect their children from the many mature themes that appear in popular games. They believe that excessive videogame play can lead to: poor social skills, lower grades in school, less family and school time, laziness and child obesity, and aggressive thoughts and actions (Playing with Violence). The latter belief is due to the fact that games are very interactive and that may encourage children to behave a certain way due to the violent content th...