Are Video Games Making Us Desensitized To Violence?

The last and final supporting argument is why exactly a violent videogame changes people in a negative way. It was said that there is an increase in aggression in individuals who play games, but there is no sign that it increased violence and crime to that person. This means that the people playing the games will have somewhat of a “hard” personality. For example, when these aggressed behaved kids play a game of football, they would rather play tackle football than flag or two hand touch football, but this doesn’t mean if they are actually playing flag/two-hand touch football that they will deliberately tackle and try to hurt someone, just because they hurt someone on Grand Theft Auto. For instance, listen to what this fellow had to say about

Violent video games are blamed for causing violence, aggressive behaviors, crimes, bullying, fighting, and school shootings. The media portrays video games as a tool that influence children and teenagers to commit violent acts. During the Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association case, the United States Supreme Court ruled the rejection of banning video games in California because studies have not proven the violence caused by video games. Statistics have shown the decrease in juvenile crime rates and increase in violent video game sales. Studies conducted by medical professionals have also proven that video games do not cause violence but rather increase moral sensitivity, prosocial behavior, and moral compass for children and teenagers. Video games do not cause violence because there is no evidence that suggests that video games cause violent behavior in children and teenagers.

Adam Lanza was a twenty-year-old individual with a dream of wanting to become a Marine. When Lanza’s mother, Nancy, told him that he couldn’t be a Marine due to him never wanting people to touch him, Lanza became even more obsessed with the military. Lanza transformed his gaming room into a replica of a military compound. By cutting paper into targets and placing them around the house, Lanza was able to practice his shooting skills with a pellet gun that he learned to shoot my playing video games. Nancy started to worry about her son’s behavior and decided to investigate on her own. Days before an unwanted historical event, she called a friend about finding pictures of bloody corpses of children under her child’s bed. Along with the gory remains,

Technology is an important aspect of change in our world. As time goes on, we are introduced to more and more technology every year, which includes media such as video games. The increase of technology has also increased and improved the world including ways of communicating and distribution of information. More often used outlets of media are those used for entertainment purposes, like television, internet and video games. The ones who are most likely to engage in these media outlets are millennials and the most recent generation Z, because they have been introduced to these outlets from a young age. In fact, a study found that children spend around 9 hours a week playing video games (Polman, de Castro, & van Aken, 2008). It is evident that video games are progressively becoming more violent in nature, and with children spending as much time as they do playing video games, there are questions that must be asked, is the violent nature of video games effecting today’s youth? And if so in what ways?

According to Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia, desensitize is define as the diminished emotional responses to a negative or aversive stimulus after repeated exposed to it. In other words, video games have always been an aspect of entertainment and humans have used video games as an outlet to escape the harsh reality of everyday life. The consequences of violent video games have been school shooting, bullying, violence among young children, and drugs and alcohol abuses.

It is agreeable that there are some correlation between teenagers playing video games and how it affects the youth mentally. Heavy consumption of violence video games does indeed stimulate a change reaction in the brain waves, but there is no hard evidence stating that those changes causes teenagers to act aggressively and violently. On the contrary, it is a popular beliefs that violence video games does indeed causes teenagers to displayed unpleasant behaviors and actions because that is what they learned and observed from the games. Therefore, parents should limit and regulate the amount of time their teenagers are playing violence video games so that they can protect their children from negative behaviors.

Throughout history, the American society has suffered from tragic events, from mass school shootings to civil terrorist attacks. The older generation has blamed violent video games such as Grand Theft Auto (GTA), Saints Row, and Mafia for the corruption of the youth and their path towards violence. In addition, mass media has also pointed fingers towards the gaming industry for most of these horrific incidents. Furthering the belief that video games are bad for children which is inaccurate. Because several experts have found videos games to be useful in terms of helping with stress, occupying time, and providing useful lessons.

Whenever there is a mass shooting, it does not take long before videogames are to blame. Some politicians and family value groups have said, "Censorship is the bastard child of technology." What is to blame for such a quote? The answer is: the realism of gaming software. Gaming software realism has grown tremendously from being pixelized. While this is amazing to some, others have major complaints about the effects of the games on their children and other people around them. One half of the peoples complaints are that the video games need more censors which will limit things that are able to happen in the game, better known as video game censorship. The other half of complaints believe that the increase of sex and violence in video games is

Guns have become a popular weapon in video games and manufacturers use this as a form of advertisement. These advertisements are encouraging gun violence and killing for a win. Some of the games were designed to teach men how to shoot and properly use a gun and train for the army. Two specific people that played these games were school shooters and caused the possible link between video game and human violence. In the article, there is an explanation of The Columbine massacre which supports the issue of violence connection destructive video games. There was also mention of another case of boys that shot at random cars and killed several and their explanation for doing so was that the game had enticed them to. Even though the games are conflicting

A video game is “an electronic game in which players control images on a television or computer screen” (Merriam-Webster). Video games have been entertaining and challenging gamers since the Game Boy to modern console games. Despite the simplicity of the definition of video games, a video game, especially ones containing violence can have a large effect on the gamer. Because of the realism and advancements in the video game industry, video games can influence the player, and can make the gamer more aggressive, even if the game is not a violent video game. Even though video games have grown in popularity over the past decade, some have not been too popular with parents, for the reason that they are too violent. Violent video games affect

Studies show that exposure to violent video games affects the behavior of children.Some have vandalized, beat someone up, took part in bullying someone.As many as 97% of US kids age 12-17 play video games, contributing to the $21.53 billion domestic video game industry. More than half of the 50 top-selling video games contain violence. Violent video games have been blamed for school shootings, increases in bullying, and violence towards women. Critics argue that these games desensitize players to violence, reward players for simulating violence, and teach children that violence is an acceptable way to resolve conflicts. Video game advocates contend that a majority of the research on the topic is deeply flawed and that no causal relationship has been found between video games and social violence. They argue that violent video games may provide a safe outlet for aggressive and angry feelings and may reduce crime.

Many teenagers who are around my age have been born into and raised in a generation where violence is idolized in video games and in the media. Although parents monitor and guide their children, “[the] media is everywhere. TV, Internet, computer and video games all vie for our children's attention]” and often times are the sole free-time activity (American Academy of Pediatrics). As media monopolizes the adolescent generation, society has begun to look at the effects it may have especially material that promotes violence. Although much of this violence is fictional, it still been found that violence in the media has many negative effects on developing children and even grown adults ( CITATION NEEDED). Based on the research conducted on the effects of violence in the media, society and especially children should not be exposed to violence in video games and the media. This opinion is congruent with the Catholic Church.

Video Game Violence has been a controversial topic for many years, dating back to even the most simple classic video games like Ms. Pac-Man, Centipede and Space Invaders, eventually pushing into more modern games like Grand Theft Auto V and Call of Duty: Black Ops. This investigation attempts to expand and analyze the idea that due to the historical trend of video game violence being accused of blame for seemingly related violent events, some of the research may be faulty. The way we look at video games and how we research their tie to violence could potentially need corrected. Within this investigation we will be looking very closely at how these tests were done, analyzing if they were valid, considering the people behind these tests and the general misconceptions people may have of video games and their impact on violence. Just about anyone in most modernized counties has heard the claim before, placing the blame on a video game, music or television for the violent acts seen in their youth today. Typically these trends seem to pop up when we are referencing school shootings, gang related crime and other domestic terrorist acts done by our youth. It is too easy to quickly blame something like a violent video game for their behavior. This investigation examines the actual statistics of these violent crimes and how they are tied to video games specifically.

Video games have been around since the early 1950s and since their conceivement, there has been many advancements in technology which has cause them to be more realistic. Due to their constant plummet into realism people have begun to equate their realism to real life scenarios such as mass shooting and terroristic acts being performed. What if the correlation between violent video games and violent acts performed was nonexistent? There has been multiple studies and research done on the topic that state these accusations are completely false, but the public media programs continue to put out a false narrative. Where did their claim originate from? Well one game series may be to blame. In 2001, one of the most controversial games of its time would be released, Grand Theft Auto 3. Grand Theft Auto was despised for its depiction of violence and its sexual content, grand theft auto (GTA) would become one the best selling games of that year and was renowned as one of the best getting tons of awards and critical acclaim while its successors would go on to sell upwards to 80 million copies. So with a bad taste left in the public's mouth, people would begin to say these games weren't suitable for children. Most gamers are considered to be children and teens which isn't true but that's just it, these games aren't made for children that why there is the entertainment software rating

Past studies have shown a link between violent video games and an increase in aggressive behaviors. The intent of the present study was to further investigate these findings. It was predicted that players who engage in violent video games would show higher rates of aggression. Participants (N = 20) were asked to complete two short surveys, the Buss and Perry (1992) aggression questionnaire and Anderson and Dill’s (2000) video game exposure scale. The results of the study did not support the prediction, nor did they corroborate the findings from previous research. Identifying the relationship between violent video games and aggression is rather complex. Earlier studies have shown varying results; however, much of the research has shown a positive correlation between video game violence and real-world aggression.