Video Game Violence

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Here's a silly question. Does any rational person truly believe that video game violence translates into real life violence? if so, how could you possibly justify that argument? When was the last time you heard about a school shooting in Japan (arguably the largest producer of video games in the world, many of them violent, and many of those more violent than games produce in the US), where video game violence was blamed? Think about it, I'll wait.
 
Two reasons as to why video game violence causes real violence:

-Poor willpower. People seem to believe that they can do what they want, and cannot control themselves in a manner conducive to a healthy mental state.
-Poor parenting. Parents do not research what they buy their children, nor do they keep up on what they are playing, thus influencing their children in a negative manner. I can't stand hearing a child curse on any game I play. I immediately mute them. That's a sign that their parents do not care what they do...and it's a sad thing that it's true.

My kids are going to game the way I started - with an Atari 2600. Nothing crude there, and I'll be around to keep an eye on them.
 
Video games don't make people violent, but it does desensitze peope to violent behavior. Beating someone up on a video game will not make somoene inheriently more likely to go do that in real life, but it will make it less shocking to them if they see it in real life.
 
If a little kid plays GTA or something, they are more likely to act violent. I believe that. But I did some research for my psychology class and I found out that pretty much ALL VIDEO GAMES TEMPORARILY INCREASE AGGRESSION IN ALL AGES AND BOTH GENDERS OF GAMERS. Really, they do. I read a study that said that aggression increased even in playing games like Lemmings and Street Fighter. It all boils down to the fact that you want to do something, and somebody's stopping you.
 
SeanXor said:
Video games don't make people violent, but it does desensitze peope to violent behavior. Beating someone up on a video game will not make somoene inheriently more likely to go do that in real life, but it will make it less shocking to them if they see it in real life.
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Exactly

Adolf Hitler didnt play video games......Charles Mason didnt play video games...Osama Bin laden doesnt play video games

Violence and crazy people were around long before video games
 
I believe that the only people that are influenced by video game violence are people that are retarded. I mean really how stupid can you be to follow something that is obviously not real life. I say video game violence should be a tool to show kids what not to do. Show them as it may be fun on the game, that in reallity if that really happened you would not only hurt people but your making yoursefl look like a fool and like someone who doesn't deserve to be recongnized as intelligent.
 
Anything competitive brings out aggression. If someone is still "buzzing" from that aggression/adrenaline when the game is turned off, then it is plausible that they focus it somewhere else. Hence, why so many fights break out after an intense sports game. Even the crowd becomes intoxicated with the aggression, the thrill of victory, the agony and humiliation of defeat.

I'm sure everyone's heard of the incredible violence that can break out in other countries after soccer games (or "football" to the non-Americans). A friend of mine from New Jersey said that Giants fans do NOT sit near Jets fans or else there's trouble.

I think that focused aggression is healthy if focused in the right direction.
 
I always wondered why Giants and Jets, or Yankees and Mets, or Rangers and Islanders can't get along. I mean, the Giants and Jets, as well as the Yankees and Mets are seperated by their conference/league...and the Islanders just aren't that good usually...
 
Being a Giants/Yankees/Rangers/Knicks fan, I can tell you that sports fans in the Northeast are just a bunch of monsters. Sure, Raiders fans are rough, Pistons fans can riot, but nothing can compete to the triangle-of-vulgar-fans between Boston, New York and Philadelphia for sheer stupidity and aggression.

Philly Eagles fans started cheering when Michael Irvin of the Cowboys was injured in such a way it looked like he might have broken his neck (I have no love for Irvin or the Cowboys, but c'mon!). Phillies fans threw batteries at J.D. Drew, the guy who refused to play for Philadelphia, when he returned in a Cardinals uniform.

At a game in Fenway, I saw an incredibly drunk Red Sox fan pick on a 12 year old boy for about an hour, cursing, yelling, etc. I thought maybe the kid was a Yankee fan getting the treatment, but when he turned around eventually, I saw he was wearing a Red Sox cap! I was wearing my Yankee cap and received a bit of the treatment too, heh.

In NY, I personally got into an altercation at Yankee Stadium when a group of highly inebriated Mets fans (yankees vs. mets game...add alcohol, stir vigorously) started yelling up racial slurs and epithets at me. I don't know what I had done to bring attention to myself. Anywho, I had a video camera I borrowed from work at the time and I decided to record the jackasses who astonishingly went very quiet. Until, that is, one of them got up and came up to my row demanding the camera from me. Now, this was a sony digital camera worth about $1200, uninsured and owned by my place of employment. He kept taking swipes at the camera and I warned him off. Since he wouldn't stop, I kicked him really hard in the sternum/chest area twice. This finally made him back off muttering while clutching his chest region. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Oddly enough, most of the Mets fans in the area who were razzing me before hand were otherwise pretty cool. Just a couple of drunk, bridge n' tunnel kids ruined it.
 
Yeah, the Yankees vs. Red Sox thing can get pretty heated here, too. I mean, when the Red Sox first turned the series around on the Yankees back in 2004, there were very many cars flipped and lit on fire, very many people arrested, and somebody even died when they caught a beanbag bullet the wrong way. And more recently, Johnny Damon did not receive a warm welcome in his return to Fenway, and I think that if the Fenway security guards weren't so willing to escort people out, there would've been something thrown at him. But I do love my Red Sox, Pats and Bruins.
 
As a Southern boy from NC, I have difficulty understanding this. I think it has to do with the nature of the sports area. There are some pretty big schools in the area for college B-ball (NC State, UNC Chapel Hill, Wake Forest, Clemson, and of course Duke).

Then there's NASCAR. WIth 43 or so drivers on the field and the crowd pulling for each of them, it's difficult to really get offended. And they have more fans in the stands than any football game. The Charlotte Motor speedway (I refuse to call it Lowe's Motor Speedway) held 142,000 before they even finished the newest seats, and that's not counting the infield, teams, drivers, or workers. It's one big party! A professor of mine in college was from NY (complete with heavy accent.... Y'all) and he was a Giants fan. He moved in next to an Ultimate Redneck. (That's the breed with the jacked up truck, rebel flags, racing stickers, and can belt out any Hank Williams song ever sung). My prof was taken to a Coca-Cola 600 race one year and couldn't believe it. Walking around outside, they were offered food, beer and room to hang out. He was stunned. Even more so when a man dressed all in black with a big "3" on everything (back when Dale sr. was alive) was standing only a few seats away from another guy that continually yelled "Dale #%$&^#%@&$**&^$^@&* Earnhardt!" and no fight broke out.

We pull for any team or driver we want and everyone gets along.
 
I think people are trying to find a excuse for what it ultimatly human nature. Human Beings are Predators. Predators are aggressive and violent. If video games was not here we would let out aggression in other ways. Video Games is not the first instance where a kid killed someone. And I think you will have to start looking at other cultural influences before you get to video games.
 
Here's the bottom line: While the fantasy scenarios in video games might suggest to people how to play out their violent tendencies, the tendencies had to be there in the first place. I simply cannot see how a normal, rational human being who wouldn't already be wanting to hurt people, could pick up a game and by the time he puts it down, is fully prepared and desires to commit murder. The idea is as ridiculous as it sounds.
 
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