Playing violent video games does not make one a violent person.
PERIOD.
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No, it just makes them a nerd. Come at me.
shareI don't know, this game is beating me up pretty hard:
https://youtu.be/gA2kRDKnhps
But should violent persons play violent video games? Are they ever going to get over their love of violence, if fake violence in their hobby?
shareViolent persons shouldn't play any videogames. They should be in jail.
shareSerious question, if you were one of the millions of parents who's stuck with a useless son who won't work, study, or do anything to improve his life, who hates everything, who talks about getting back at his enemies and asks for a gun... Would you think his fondness for violent video games was harmless?
For all the conspiracy theories regarding violent video games I think that's the real problem, that they might tip a potentially violent young person into actual violence.
How about that one guy who killed his wife and then asked for an Xbox in exchange of a confession?
Here is the story:
https://youtu.be/KFaYZTVg6mw
If you had a family member who settled domestic differences through physical violence or threatening his nearest and dearest with guns, and who constantly raged about getting back at his bosses... would you think that his gun-based video games were a harmless hobby?
That's the thing about violent video games, not that they make decent people violent, but that they could make the worst people worse.
You can't be worse when you're the worst.
shareConsider the difference between a vile human being who harms nobody, or only harms those fool enough to get close, and a vile human being who machine-guns a crowd of strangers at a concert.
Could video games that involve gunning down stranger have a role in changing the one into the other?
They could.
But also movies, tv shows, music, fashion, religions / propaganda, gun culture, war culture, drugs, even food and drinks, etc.
But how much they affect is debatable. I mean, saying violent videogames absolutely has no effects is unwise, but saying it is definitely turning violent people into mass murderers is also as ridiculous.
Of course it does.
What do you think commercials are?
it doesn't make them NOT violent :)
shareI agree with this statement.
I don’t play video games but I watch horrible murder documentaries, gory slasher movies, the violent cowboy and cop and war flicks pretty much constantly…I’ve played more than my share of Iron Maiden and Metallica in my garage…I crank that shit up to 11!
Ask me how many people I’ve murdered. I never once killed anybody and I certainly don’t intend to.
Perverts and killers are a different breed from the rest of us, thank goodness. We build prisons and electric chairs for that lot.
All of these sick maniacs have their bullshit excuses for their vile behavior…’I shot up the school because Mommy wasn’t around…I jumped on those women because Daddy spanked me…Girls won’t date me because they think I’m very creepy!’
Bullshit. Some men are just broken, sad things, not even men at all.
Video games, Heavy Metal music and violent movies have nothing to do with violent crime.
Check this one out
https://youtu.be/KFaYZTVg6mw
Of course we cannot make a genial person violent by having them play violent video games. That's a very simple premise.
But I think it's reasonable to at least wonder if looking at enough people over enough time there might be a noticeable statistical increase in maladaptive, anti-social behavior resulting in discrete events of violence which might be caused by desensitization from enjoying first person shooter games.
The great, vast majority of people will go about their lives more or less unchanged, I imagine. But for what may be gained from these video thrills of shooting up everything that moves (in a culture that encourages the proliferation of guns) versus what, in a very small amount of cases, results in actual human carnage makes me wonder why we abet children to spend their time this way.
I mean, there's gotta be better ways for kids to spend their time, right? So we should be good parents and good members of the community and de-emphasize indulging in violent video games. Unless you don't give a damn.
I’ve seen thousands of people get shot and stabbed in movies buddy. If any of that were real I’d be in the San Quentin Death watch block…with 20 bodies on my record, and I sure would have the chemicals or noose coming, deservedly so, I wouldn’t even appeal it.
Nobody becomes a raper or a lunatic killer because of video games, movies and rock music.
Please stop feeding this myth, I really do like you buddy but you are badly mistaken on this one.