Five good reasons why Violent games won't make you a killer
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LysseC
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Reasons n. 3 and 4 are really convincing imo. It's true that a violent videogame may influence a mental unstable person, but then the problem is not the video game per se, but the mental instability.
On the contrary, most gamers who are not mentally unstable are normal, non-violent people who wouldn't harm a fly.
If video games incited to violence then I should have become more violent in those last years since I began playing video games on a more regular basis. You know what, I did not. I'm still the same regarding to physical violence.
Moreover, there's a great difference between "virtual" violence and actual violence, I think. "Virtual" violence is only seen on screen. It only involves the sense of sight, while actually beating someone with your bare hands or with a weapon is very different, because it involves other senses as well. I could spend hours massacring people in a video game, and then, if I ever take a knife and plunge it in another's man throat (and I don't know why I should do it), I'd be scared sh!tless because of the sensations of blood spilling out and the knife tearing through flesh, or, I imagine, the smells. So I don't think video games make us used to violence.
On the contrary, most gamers who are not mentally unstable are normal, non-violent people who wouldn't harm a fly.
If video games incited to violence then I should have become more violent in those last years since I began playing video games on a more regular basis. You know what, I did not. I'm still the same regarding to physical violence.
Moreover, there's a great difference between "virtual" violence and actual violence, I think. "Virtual" violence is only seen on screen. It only involves the sense of sight, while actually beating someone with your bare hands or with a weapon is very different, because it involves other senses as well. I could spend hours massacring people in a video game, and then, if I ever take a knife and plunge it in another's man throat (and I don't know why I should do it), I'd be scared sh!tless because of the sensations of blood spilling out and the knife tearing through flesh, or, I imagine, the smells. So I don't think video games make us used to violence.
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I'll just get right to the ass kicking.
ZoominGames are idiots and morons but they're right about this and I wish I could just go grab my mom and dad, drag them to the computer, sit them down and tell them to shut up and pay attention as I play that video.
I've been wanting to show that clip in Blood Dragon to them ever since I saw it.
I've been wanting to show that clip in Blood Dragon to them ever since I saw it.
IncarnatedDemon
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1 reason why Violent video games wont make you a killer: No studies have supported the theory that it does.
IncarnatedDemon
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Indeed, and common sense tells you most violent games are rated accordingly.
DArkness games which was very violent was rated 17+.
A 17 year old should know diffrence between reality and fantasy unless he was already mentally ill from before.