Violent Video Games

Does playing video games increase aggressive behavior in children? Both the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, according to Susan Scutti, take a firm stance against children and teens playing violent video games. Violent video game playing and aggressive behavior are correlated, but not causational. With the use of scientific experiment and random sampling, one can conclude that violent video games do have a significant effect on aggression, but not in the way that we think.

Since video games have been introduced, video games have been accused of contributing too many atrocities, and acts of violence. News outlets paint video games as being a source of which some acts of violence happen. Yes, violent video games have become more popular, meanwhile becoming controversial, but still there exist no links between aggression and video games. The University of Bologna says that “owning videogames does not in fact seem to have negative effects on aggressive human behavior” (Koffler par.7). Meanwhile, news outlets keep on missing the point on how beneficial video games are. Video games do not contribute to violence, can be educational, and they can improve us in different ways.

The article by J. Ramirez, Clinton Village News, states that Violent Video Games Harm Our Kids ensuring the reason of violence in young people who have played countless hours of violent video games.

In 2008 an eight year-old intentionally, living in slaughter louisiana,shot his grandmother in the head right after playing grand theft auto IV. In America the rate of mass shootings and obesity each year. Video Games also teach antisocial behavior. Video games are responsible for increase of violence in schools, desensitizing American youth, and prompting unhealthy behaviors.

Moreover, many kids deal with violence and can’t control it. As a result of having issues with violence some people play video games to let their violence and anger out. People need to understand that “ [b]ut overall, violent crime is down in the US-indeed, as violent games have become more popular, violent crime has fallen." (Erik Kain 1) The more popular the game is studies show violent

Video games have been around for over fifty years and have become quite popular over the past four decades. In fact, they are so popular that a certain subset of them have recently come into scrutiny and are a topic of hot debate. This subset contains video games that are violent in nature, which, many people loathe. Those people try to use many fallacious tactics to persuade others to join their cause. Take the article ‘Violent Video Games Can Desensitize Players and Increase Aggression’ for example, firstly it hooks an audience with its hasty generalization that violent video games create mass murderers, secondly it uses cum hoc ergo propter hoc to provide evidence that video games contribute to and enforce desensitization and aggression, and thirdly it uses appeals to anonymous authorities to provide accreditation for the content it discusses.

Throughout the history of video games, one of the most important parts of having a video game is the controller. For years ever since video game consoles have been invented it has had a controller to operate all of its features.Without the controller you would not be able to operate the video game console because the controller is like a beacon to the console,it does whatever the controller operates it to do. The controller structure is a very unique design and model. It is built into a way that it can be held and it fits the grooves of your hands so that you can manage to operate all the buttons on the controller to perform the actions that transfer to the game system which shows up on the television. Although due to failures in the video game, the controller becomes the most frustrating aspect of the game.

“Recent contents analyses of video games show that many as 89% of games contain some violent contents” (Gentile, Lynch, Linder, Walsh 3). More than half of video games being sold around the world contain some form of violence. All of the violence involved in the video games being played by children is a pattern leading to aggression. Aggression can be caused by many things; however, violent video games are the main cause of aggression in young adults. “If a child began playing violent video games at a young age, then he might think that violence in real life is the same as the game violence and that it doesn’t have a real impact on others” (Gilad, Alto 1). Thinking that violence in the virtual world is the same as in the real world is the first step to showing aggression. Aggression in children caused by video games is the biggest effect parents and researchers worry about. Violent video games teach children that shooting and killing people are

With the amount of violent video games saturating the market it is difficult for parental figures to monitor their children’s consumption. Many children these days play violent video games constantly. We have access to video games on our home consoles, computers, televisions, smartphones, and tablets. Today it is easier than ever for a child to download a violent game over the internet and have access to it anywhere. Many families seem to be uninformed about the affects video game violence may have on their children.

Every child is born innocent; it is the way a child grows up that causes them to act violently in some situations. Every child is innocent until they are exposed to all the harmful and dangerous that everyone lives with. There are many factors that can destroy a child's life; growing up watching violent movies, playing violent games, living with a violent family, and being peer pressured are some of the many factors that are increasing the amount of violence among children.

Are violent games danger to the consumer/player? The violent Video game is causing the consumer/player to mental problems by doing bad things and think that is alright. Violent video game is harmful because it allows the consumer/player to actively do crime without being punished. We should increase the age of the consumer/player so they won’t be able to purchase these violent games and some of the consumer/player isn’t mentally stable and if they get shooting and fighting games would mess with their mental state even more.

Most of us have certainly pondered on the thought if video games truly create violent citizens, I personally believe that video games do not what so ever. One must distinguish this topic accurately and consider learning to differentiate and not have a biased or radical opinion. There have been many attempts from a number of different people who have tried to give a bad name to video games due to the simulations and realness and say that video games will create a negative environment for anyone who plays them, especially in children. Enthusiasts of video games have spent decades asserting that there is no underlying link between playing violent titles and engaging in the violent real-world behavior. Brand-new data confirms their contentions.

Today, the discussion on video games has focused on two aspects: do playing video games increase violence or not? Some people say that video games increase aggression in teenagers whereas others think that just video games itself do not increase violence. There are numerous researches that show how playing violent video games affect in teenagers. At the same time, there are also plenty of researches that support how there are many different factors other than playing video games increase aggression in teenagers.

Sebastian Florez Brian Lorio Fundamentals of Speech November 28, 2017 Whenever societal violence occurs one of the first things looked at is what type of video games the suspect plays. Usually the perpetrator is an avid gamer who plays games such as Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto which are infamous for their extreme violence. Mainstream news and reporters attempt to make their audience's believe that their is a correlation between video games and behaviors. But Is it fair to assume that there even is correlation.Is it fair to assume violent video games inspire violent tendencies in real life? So everyone Has heard this in fact most parents believe it According to a survey by Common sense Media over 75% of parents who participated in a poll believe that violent video games contribute to Violence. Although the scientific evidence proves otherwise why do the majority of people still believe this. Not only does this give a bad impression to the people who actually play these type of games which is the majority of people but putting the blame on the games and not the mental state of the perpetrators will not help put an end to these horrific events. So why do people even believe this. Well it's no secret that Older generations tend to disparage new things that youth like, such as video games. In the 50s comic books were blamed for corrupting youth back in the day. And By the 1980s, former Vice President Al Gore's wife Tipper Gore led a crusade against Twisted Sister's' Dee

In my opinion I strongly agree that violent video games do not create violence in adolescents. If anything violent video games scare kids and make them not want to hurt anybody or be violent themselves in real life. In today's society juvenile violent crime is at a 30 year low and if anything it seems like today's adolescents are getting softer than they were 30 years ago. I believe that today's adults that oppose violent video games are over reacting just because this technology is new and they never had it as kids.