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There is NO excuse for killing another human in cold-blood. People can blame games, films, weapons, television, books, or even beliefs, but that is only an excuse for people to murder others and start wars. you can only blame human nature and not other things, just humans.
I completely agree, it is just how how humans and animals are. Think about this there has been murder since Biblical times and there was no CoD or GTA in Jericho.
+fearofgodblablabla no it actually does not. It brings into reality things that either happened or may happen. As an individual who's been to warzone there is zero correlation to violent videon games and a numbness to violence. You are no expert on this subject and your opinion is mute.
so I know nothing and neither do you, but somehow you know that tv and video games make crime worse? hypocrite. All studies conducted ans statistics show the exact opposite to what you claim, but I guess that does not register to you. Idiots, such as yourself, believe whatever they choose to without any empirical evidence to support such claims. Let me guess you also believe vaccines cause autism. dumbass
***** so does the news brainwash me to be numb towards violence. No it does not I play gta5 but that doesn't make me heartless. I punched someone at my school last Wednesday and about 2 days after I felt so bad that I apologized to him. So the people that say the killed people because of videogames have real problems such as anger issues.
cody clampitt There was actually a paper published in the uk that said that video games that don't work make people more violent than violent video games that do
I can get aggressive through video games, but that's NEVER because of its violence. Rather, game difficulty pisses me off! I've been more frustrated by Mario than I have by Call of Duty.
I have to agree with him pretty much 100%. Violent video games don't make me violent. They might make me agressive or frustrated if I'm having trouble with it or something, but it's never made me want to actually hurt someone in real life
I really hate the "Jimmy played video games and then he ran over a kid...." argument, its like saying I had a salad this morning and i shot someone it must have been the salad!
Well I've always believed it's the other way around. Violent people like violent video games but it's not fair to assume that someone that likes violent games is a violent person
The reporter is just fishing for something here. He's asking these questions that are meant to trip up the researcher. Sorry, but facts stand up to your trickery.
Human sacrifice to imaginary gods? Fine. Someone shoots up a school and we find out he's been playing video games?( like 90% of the planet does), NOT FINE.
I would argue that video games actually make people LESS violent. It gives them a place to channel their negative emotions and aggression. The more time and energy you spend gaming, the less time and energy you spend commiting actual violence. So it makes perfect sense that mass shooters play violent games. They need to channel their aggression somewhere. But because they are already so unstable, it is not enough, so they go out and kill real people. Any mentally sane person can make the difference between fantasy and reality and would never attempt to replicate what they see in games or movies.
Video Games does not cause violence. Parents are using video games as a scapegoat for their kids violent behavior. What really causes violent behavior in kids is poor parenting. If they just teach and discipline their kids properly of what kind of games that they can play and what games are not for them. Then this wouldn't be a major problem.
Plus, almost every shooter is mentally unstable. Not every one, but most. And they probably don't realize the difference between fake, video game violence, and real life violence.
Does fifa make me a pro soccer player? NO Does mariocart male me a pro racecar driver? NO Does Minecraft make me a survival master? NO Does GTA male me violent? NO!!!
like the politicans complain how violent Night Trap was. Even though there are G and PG movies more violent and disturbing than anything in that game. Just shows they do not even play them.
I think if a person is violent in nature and will have an outburst, it will just need a trigger. That trigger could be anything. Like the stories of someone stabbing his friend cause he got knifed in counter-strike.Was that really about the game?Anything could have set him off. I really wonder what's their excuse for all mass murdering that keeps happening in was and all that.Like what games where they playing during WWI and WWII ?
***** I'm 12, I may be hostile... towards people who hurt me first. I am not violent first and I never will be. We rescue wild birds so I do the opposite. The only birds we keep are the 5 out of 30 birds we rescued that chose to stay. In school back in 2010 they started cracking down on the generation old game of Cops n' Robbers and now when we make a gun symbol, kids get suspended. One kid got suspended for bringing a play-doh knife to school. This once great nation is now a shit-hole of paranoia and fat people.
***** Geek! Violence is good you fucking liberal! I hear swearing everywhere in real life and my dad was a fighter. Everybody has violence in them that they want to get out so I can shoot people in the game instead of real life. BTW nerd, you can't ruin an industry. Just shut the fuck up because only 1/100,000,000,000 agree with your dumbass views.
Well, just because they didn't have video games back then doesn't mean video games doesn't promote aggressive behavior. Btw, I'm not arguing that games cause massive shootings, I'm just writing a paper for it so I'm trying to get as many arguments as possible.
Well if u want arguments. Just talk about movies or television in general. Those promote WAY more sex/violence/sexism/ than games. Or talk about religion and how the people have used religion ( so religion is not at fault ) to mass murder people. There are so many more big things that promote bad stuff than video games. Or how the the military promotes "Hey that guy is not like us KILL HIM and BTW GO die for us while we sit and get fatter and fatter and keep fighting our made-up wars so that we can get richer and u can just die..."
I've played Violent games for a lot of years now, nothing happened to me. If young parents are afraid that his child will become Violent, then they don't let him play that game or even better don't let him spend a lot of time on PC.
It's not the violence it's having something done to make them upset like dieing or messing up something but definitely not the violence, that's just stupid how people think that.
I like that the scientist isn't being stupid and saying oh yeah we tested people 5 minutes after they get absolutely thrashed in a game they become violent.
I played violent video game since childhood and if u looked at my life u would probably assume that's the source of my criminal experiences but it's not. I was influenced by the city i live in aswell as people around me. I didn't do it càz it was fun but because I wanted money, i wanted power and i later grew an addiction to gambling my life for cash and a fine rush. I've been rehabilitated 3 years and contributing to society
Video games don't cause Violence, We Americans cause Violence Because Canadian, Australian kids play the same game Americans do, but this never happens there why,
Shooters are typically people with mental illness. As the US has a higher population and more guns, it makes it more likely that psychotics can get a hold of a gun, and then they'll do exactly what the news (like CNN) will report endlessly on the news.
There is no link of real life violence and video games. Only Real life violence and frustration, which can be caused by *Anything. People who blame video games for what they do are just children blaming a teddy bear for eating the cookies.
Blaming video games for mass killings is about the stupidiest thing you can do. If video games are banned and these killings still occur what you gonna blame them for?
I've been playing violent video games from the 8-bit era until the modern era, and I never once committed a violent crime. Hell, I've never even committed a crime in my life (save for the two times I was arrested in my juvenile days for underage drinking). BTW, I'm almost 40 years old. Will be 40 in 2015, been a hardcore gamer since the age of 5) - END OF ARGUMENT
its funny how whenever someone wants to claim that video games lead to violence and murder, they target grand theft auto, a game about killing and violence and doing whatever you want
The easiest way to debunk the thought video games violence look at violent movies then look at games same level of violence in both but the difference is people say video games cause violence but not movies with the same level of violence
Oh my lord I play video games and they don’t make me rage or violent. I play cod, god of war, etc and I have lots of fun and I never hit anyone and I easily can. The ironic thing is my parents want me to play a nba 2k or sum shi, but those games actually make me more mad when I lose 😂
Of course they don't cause violence. Anyone with eyes and a brain between their ears can see that. The media is just full of dipshits who have never played them before. I'm a VERY avid gamer, about 5-7 hours a day, and I'm no more violent than I was when I was younger.
They've been saying media makes people violent since it first came out, the earliest version I know of is comic books, they made a company that screened the comics much like the FCC does with tv shows because it was "too violent". If that didn't work back when they took those away, then what is really making people violent, is it *mental issues prior to playing the video games* or is it *bad parenting* like the parents that *don't* teach right from wrong with their children and just sit them in front of a tv, and don't want to take accountability for them? I use to play games I don't play as much as I use to but even still it's *fake* all it is is just pix elated images hitting other pix elated images by another pix elated image.
how come is it when medias, experts and doctors are more global in their thinking, the views don't seem to go above a couple of thousands, BUT you'll get no shortage of viewers and comments on experts and the media saying " I STRONGLY DECLARE x, y or z"
Any aggression caused by games is caused by the manual task itself rather than the level of violence. Super Mario Bros causes more aggression in me than GTA 5 because it's a harder game. That aggression can also be caused by any other manual task that has a failure state.
The way that journalist asked is trying to lead the conversation toward games cause violence. What a troll, I understand he is doing the job, but this is wrong, news workers should be absolutely neutral and no bias.....
Do you let your kids play GTA? I think the correct response should be that it's age restricted so no responsible parent should allow a child who is under age to play it. The themes involved are very mature and I don't think kids should play it. I've been playing games since I was old enough to hold a controller and I have been denied games as a kid because I was under age. I'm 32 now and have played a lot of violent video games and I have not once had the urge or want to go and commit murder.
the answers is video games dont trigger violence. what triggers violence? 1.) Mental disabilities (eg bipolar) 2.) the people you play with (and the anger is temporary) 3.) lag 4.) If you're 8 years old and you're playing cod and dont completely understand what is ok in society, you might think its ok to go hurt people. And that is a rare and extreme occurance. (and, it's your parents fault for getting you the game, not the game it's self.)
Actually the brain is developed to know bad from wrong and what not to do at the age of seven. So unless a 6 year old is playing cod which I doubt they'll even find entertaining it's all ok.
:) Dear G RIPs,you just have named the magic word."kids".A kid is someone unaccustomed to own a gun,especially in our modern life,when the human societies have developed governmental institution super-qualified to handle weapons and use force only for a greater good.It's not enough to know how to fire a gun,it's even more important against whom and without absolute any civilian casualties.Owing a gun by a civilian was necessary only in the crude,wild,primitive times,now it has become obsolete.
It`s a fuel. Movies are fuel, porn is fuel, that builds up violence and trigger comes from unleashing trauma. Wheter it`s childhood or present, violence has always a motiv for a person. Why movies and news are more effective in building up violence is because the trauma in there is 100% real (except animated, CG), resonating and emotional. Lennon killer was inspired by "Taxi driver", Colorado shooter by "Batman" and recent shooter by Anti-goverment movement.
I am not a Perant and I am a Gamer. If I would have kids I would not let them play games like Battlefield, call of duty, Red orchestra, Verdun Tannenberg, etc from a young age on because especially with games like Verdun, Tannenberg and red orchestra 2 they will be exposed to things that they are way to young for (the level of violence (real gorey stuff)) I would let my 6 year old play Lego star wars though because it is kid friendly, but not all the time. I do believe that young kids at that age should do stuff in the outside with friends and or family. The older the kid is the more violent the games they play can be. If I see a 11 or 12 year old play a Batman arkham game or a game like the force unleashed I do have no problem with it though because those two games aren't that violent.
Violence in video games is a topic that I really wish people understood properly. I have a degree in psychology and I plan on working in schools with my MA in education. I also play games like The Witcher 3. When it comes to the psychology of violence in video games, there is no debate. It's been adequately studied to the point where it can be considered sound science. Violent images increase aggression and desensitize minds to violence. This has been studied ever since the Bobo Doll experiment where children modeled behavior. Children seeing the Bobo Doll getting beaten up tended to be more aggressive with it when around it. Numerous studies show that violence in the media can cause aggression and anxiety in children for periods following play, sometimes up to a few hours. Now, whatever you want to do with that information, be my fucking guest. And what the media does is they use the extreme examples. You heard douchebag jones here go "is there a link between violent video games and these occuring acts?" No. Not one shred of evidence shows that violent media causes violent acts in real life. The real issue here is do violent images in media play a part in a child's anxiety and behavioral issues such as aggression.
***** I'm not a psychologist yet, and I'm not too well up to date on concepts like hypnotherapy, but the power of suggestion does influence our behavior sometimes. In the case of politics, or advertising, we can enter what's called group think where we get so involved in the group's way of thinking that we don't think for ourselves. We get so swept up in the bandwagon that we don't stop to think if we really like Bernie Sanders or Jeb Bush. Because they're the big ticket candidates this year (and Hillary). And the whole idea of the bandwagon comes from the idea that it's better for us to follow the group because it's safer. I say it goes back to how we lived in the jungle. When we lived in the trees for thousands of years, we had to become a solid unit within our tribes otherwise if we did things on our own, bad shit would happen. We would get killed by an enemy or an animal or something. So then fast forward to thousands of years later, and on a subconscious level many of us might think that if we don't participate in the new Apple product, or the new politician, then they'll feel left out. And if you put somebody under hypnotherapy you might discover some of their insecurities and insecurity is what leads us to allow the group to do our thinking. We don't want to be left out. That's why I don't have much faith in the American people to select the best president for the job. They tend to select the most popular person for the job. I'm a Democrat and I personally don't like Hillary or Bernie Sanders. I personally like Rand Paul. But you won't find many registered Democrats that think that way.
+Vic Vinegar The fact that you just stated Bernie Sanders was a "big ticket candidate" tells me you know very little of politics. Clinton is the big ticket candidate in the Democratic Party and the only one. Sander's popularity has risen only due to social media and the internet. The majority of Americans still have no idea who he is and the vast majority have no idea what his stances are.
***** ok let's pick apart semantics over non standard words like "big ticket" that can have many meanings to many people. And I guarantee I know WAY more about politics than you.
***** telling me that I don't know about politics because I use a colloquial term to refer to a candidate is arguing semantics. Big ticket can be taken many ways. I'm blocking you because you're bringing nothing to this but arguing about semantics.
Most serial killers had either mentally broken or have been exposed to some kind of violent trauma like physical and sexual abuse. Also if parents don't want their kids playing violent games. Probably just a crazy suggestion... Not buy the kids the game. I've played GTA: San Andreas and Metal of Honor has a kid. And I'm fine. Maybe parents should also keep an eye on their kids mental well being.
Sir I cannot have sympathy for those that commit genocide, acts of terrorism, rape, theft, or enslave people and deny them their freedom. The truth of the matter is that there is evil in this world and sometimes to have to fight protect others. You cannot stop dictators and serial killers with drum circles and folks songs.
When he comments on not allowing children to play GTA, it really comes down to a matter of maturity. The story of the game was made as social commentary to modern American society by greatly exaggerating the influence of the media as well as violence. I cannot recommend playing the game to a person if they do not understand the underlying mission the developers at Rockstar wanted to accomplish.
I think the nutcase who plays GTA encourages violence. But the sane person doesn't get effected at all. They like entertainment and GTA V is the best entertainment I've see in years.
