Nature Vs Nurture Vs Nature

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English 12
Mrs. Ortmann
Joshua Dalsky
13 March 2015
Nurture Vs. Nature

The true impact of the way people have seen and learned is sometimes genetics or environmental (where we live). The impact of both is huge but the way of thinking is always changing. In Nurture Vs. Nature, nurture is our environment. Our ever changing environment is seen in violent video games where players think that people won’t actually die and will get back up, a possible solutions, and movies which could create copycat killers.
How does the minds of people who might have mental illness that play violent video games such as Doom, all of the Grand theft Auto games, all of the Halo games, and all of the Call of Duty affect the turnout of events or the loses of reality. …show more content…

Now some of this may come as no surprise with gender and age. As suspected the gender that is mostly affected is males. Unexpectedly violent video games affect a surprisingly long range of males. According to (valleymornignstar) “The affected group is mostly males ten through thirty-one.” This may be the case because men do not know how to control their anger as well as they should or they never learn how to control their anger. Now the effect of children not understanding when to stop if playing at such a young age could end in disaster according to (CNN) “Child playing violent video games finds the caregivers pistol and plays with the gun and ends up shooting her in the back of the head.” Was this a coincidence or not? Well the child in this case was playing Grand Theft Auto 4 before this incident. The most asked question when talking about video games is according to (CNN) “weather violent video games are to be blamed for people killing or not.” There is no simple answer to this question but one thing to think about is how mental illness plays a role in violence caused by video games. Some gamers use violent video games to release urges to hurt and or possibly take a life. When does the line get crossed according to (thegaurdian) “violent video games to prevent killing of other people.” This may seem extreme but for some people but it is a great way to relieve some stress that may be build up. On the other hand most people has no urge to try this in real life according to (thegaurdian) “normal gamers have agreed they would not test their skills in real life.” This is where knowing the difference between games and real life come in handy. A mentally unstable gamer would not know the difference and try may end up killing a person because of it according to (thegaurdian) “Experts worry that video games are getting too violent.” Let us look at who is to blame for the

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