Australia's Gaming Should Be Banned

Video games are a fast growing form of technology. This issue has to be discussed because of the two confronting sides that embark it. Because of the issue video games have to either continue growing as they are or they have to be stopped completely or a settlement between the two parties has to be

Kids under the age of 16 should not be allowed to play video games Rated M. They could do the bad things the people on the video games do like drugs or other things that could ruin their lives. They could also lose respect like people older than them. Kids mostly get these things from the video games and sometimes they don't but most of the stuff they learn this from is from bad parenting and then the parents blame the video games they buy for them that shouldn't be bought for them. The kids may not learn these bad things and still be the good kids they are and they may never do drugs or disrespect anyone at

More games have added dialog and a storyline; these storylines sometimes include inappropriate language and gestures. Much of the dialogue in the Grand Theft Auto games includes the f-word or the b-word. The words are spoken so frequently that it can begin to sink into children’s minds that curse words are appropriate to say. They might not even know that the words are bad. Games have countless occurrences of people sticking their middle fingers up. If a child sees that, they may not know what that means. They might go to school and copy what they see on games. The games open up a different world for children; this world is full of content that is unsuitable for them. Children tend to copy what they see. They are very impressionable at young ages. If they are sitting there playing games for hours, they pick up certain behaviors from these games.

In recent years, we have seen many video games criticized and bashed in the public eye for their disputable content. However, the game industry has been subjected to controversy since the creation of its first adult themed games such as Death Race 1976 or Custer 's Revenge 1982. These two graphics limited games have introduced video game violence to the public and since then debate about morals and ethics of video games evolved over the years together with the game experience thanks to modern technologies. Violence is one aspect of many that can cause great controversy that’s why it is important to create a suitable ethical, cultural and legal context as it can determine its failure or its success. In this paper, I will present an example

All Death Race and the other controversial games did was spark talk but not until June 2011 where the Supreme Court “tried to make the sale or rental of mature-rated video games to underage consumers an illegal offense punishable by fine” (Evan Narcisse, Supreme Court: ‘Video Games Qualify for First Amendment Protection’, Time). It is a form of art that is now protected by the constitution the same is music, film, and visual art. Not all violent games are hot steaming piles of gore, blood, and catastrophe. Games like the Metal Gear Solid series and Bioshock where you do indeed kill don’t get me wrong but you don’t play it for the violence. You get a game and think about “how am I going to murderously kill this guy” no. You buy these games like Metal Gear Solid and Bioshock for the story and gameplay more than anything. As a matter of fact in Metal Gear Solid you are optional in killing! Yes you heard me. NO KILLING. You can completely opt out in killing and still complete the game. Metal Gear is not the only one. You got another title like Splinter Cell; you can completely opt out in killing. You can go to this website http://www.esrb.org/ and check the rating to see how mature the game is. Both Metal Gear Solid and Splinter Cell are just two of quite a few games where even though they have a mature rating, meaning they are violent, you can opt out in killing. The people who took this to

Video games are loved by many people. People even make money by playing video games and posting them on YouTube. But many people argue that violent video games cause real life violence in children. Many video games have actually been banned in countries. One example of this is Watchdogs in the United Arab Emirates. Violent video games do not promote violence in kids under 17 because it has not been proven to increase aggression, there are recommendations for age groups on the package because of this, and countries that have a high percentage of video games use, have low gun violence.

Stories such as these raise many ethical questions. Why are videogames so violent? And, perhaps more centrally, what cultural values do computer games communicate to their users. These questions have sparked a surge of recent studies to test the effects of video games on youth.

Video games have become very prevalent in modern society, being regarded as a major form of entertainment. The video game industry is indeed one of the fastest growing industries in the United States. While the video game industry have become more socially acceptable since its inception in the 1970's, it had received much controversy and debate, especially in regards to video games considered too violent and/or sexist. Many people believe the influences in these sorts of videogames can affect the views and behaviors of the people who play these games (i.e. gamers). As a result of this link, gamers, for the most time of recent history, had been subjected to ridicule and condemnation. Gamers had been considered deviants.

Many people have their own tastes of video games. so some people play puzzle games like candy crush others prefer to play free for all games like Goat Simulator and others like playing strategy games like Plants vs. Zombies, or PVZ for short. Or if you are a person obsessed with video games and then they outlawed them life would be as dull as a broken pencil. But we should not ban any game genre, maybe people are misjudging video games. One reason is that when people play video games they enter a virtual reality universe where they can do all sorts of stuff have a grappling-tonge, be an octopus who is a father, or even dance! So because I am a gamer that doesn't make me violent because I play 100% of the time games that are not gorey. I know that some games make people, violent that is because they want to do what they see in the game because they like it and want to mimic it in the real world, we just need to keep an eye on how video games can make a person act. The main thing that I am trying to tell you is that people should

In this age of technology, it's very safe to say that a large majority of the world's population has played at least one video game. This can vary from playing games on console, like Xbox-One, Playstation 4, and for the older generation, the NES to playing mobile games like Tetris. There are many consoles that span from the creation of video games. This has opened opportunities to make several kind of games. These can vary from side-scrollers like Super Mario Bros. on the NES, to Role-playing games (RPG) like Final Fantasy IX on the Playstation 1. While this has caused some great games to surface, it has also allowed intense violence to be let into games. Parents and anti-gaming communities state that this is why kids can become violent. This is false, because violent games can be avoided to prevent this issue, and the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) has even made various precautions to make sure parents know what they're purchasing. Comprehensible symbols, detailed lists, and age restrictions prevents children from "becoming violent".

Though the kids need to know to what extend and what happen when he or she lost. In Video games, sometime to get the prize, he or she have to kill or hurt the other players. The child does not know that, that is not okay in real life. Also, I've known some adults that still plays violence video games. They not only get really upset but also start cussing and throwing things. That is not a normal actions. When the child grows up and not get he or she wants, he or she will then start yelling and throwing fit. That can lead to anger issue and of course the disorders that are mentioned above. Of course, that nonviolence video games are not that entertaining but it also helps for parents to continuously adivising the kids that not what they see, or watch can be related to real life situation. Also, I do believe that video games that affect disorders but the parents can not just blame the video games it is also the parents' responsibilities to teach their kids whats right and wrong. Also to me, anything violent should be keep away from children until the parents are sure that the kids can handle

I don’t think children should be allowed to play a rated M game. “Most experiments into the effects of violent video games are done with college students. Researchers divide them into two groups. One group plays a violent game, the other a non-violent video game. Then researchers measure how students in each group feel and how they behave. You can't give young people guns and knives to see whether they'll kill each other after playing a violent video game, so scientists have come up with other ways to measure emotional responses.” This game will make children adore violence. When I have kids I wouldn’t let them play rated M

Violent media is everywhere in this generation of technology. The violent med wouldn’t effect children if some regulations were made but still need children would exposed. Craig A. Anderson professor of psychology at Iowa University examined children behaviors with different media. Anderson stated, “About 90 percent of U.S. youth aged eight to eighteen play videogames, with boys averaging about nineteen hours a week.” (Anderson). This high percentage of children videogames cause them to see a variety of different games including ones that are not even meant for this to play with. Videogames similar to movies are rated. The rating of an “E” means it’s intend for every one of all ages. Anderson stated, “ ‘E’ videogames have more than 30 percent of violence descriptor in them, and more than 90 percent of ‘E10+’ games contain violence descriptor” (Anderson). Of course the more graphic violence it is rated higher, to prevent young children from playing it but the games meant for

When children play violent games, their parents should supervise them and ensure they know that it is just a game, keep reassuring them that you couldn’t get away with this or that in real life, this is if you let them play violent games at a young age.

The graphics in games now make the game almost look as if it were real life. That has brought the video game industry a lot more players and part of those new gamers are young children. The issue is when a child is presented with a violent video game that has really good graphics the child has a better understanding of what is going on in that game. Because children can relate what is going in the video game to the real world, that leads children to believe that the actions being done in that video game are accepted in society. If the children believe that its right from them to do violent actions that they learned from the game there attitude starts becoming more aggressive. Anne Harding says “children who watch violence in the media can internalize the message that the world is a hostile place...”.