In school we are reading articles on video game violence and whether or not it affects what people do. For example if someone plays Grand Theft Auto and then goes out and kills someone or beats someone up because of playing that game.
In 2 articles, one by a group of people and another by a person named Tina, they said that video game violence has nothing to do with the crimes people commit. The 3rd article, written by a person named Stephanie, said that video game violence does have something to do with that.
Personally, I believe that it has nothing to do with it. Just because you play a violent video game doesnt mean you are going to go out and kill someone. I have played Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty and I am not violent. I am not going to go kill someone because of playing those games.
I do not have the articles with me but the article by Stephanie stated 3 incidents where someone commited murder and in two of those incidents the person blamed it on video games saying "Life is like a video game, you have to die sometime." I could not believe that. I think it is so stupid. It's just an excuse for murdering.
Stephanie mentioned the ESRB rating board (I think that is what it's called, I'll correct it if it's wrong when I have the articles) and said that they aren't doing their job in rating the video games correctly. A video game called Bully was rated T for Teen and she thought that was wrong; that is was a violent video game and should be rated higher. Tina's article was in response to Stephanie's and she had played the game and said that it was not violent and T was a good rating for it. I think video games are rated quite well. Parents are the ones in charge of what their kids play for the most part. They need to watch what they play and not buy them anything they shouldn't be playing. The government is doing a fine job at rating games.
Video game violence
By Sam328 - Posted on February 15th, 2008
Playing one of those video games may not make you want to commit a crime. But I think they are somewhat related, because those types of games which include violence and killing people can give a murderer or theif a new idea on how to commit there crime.
Get what i'm trying to get at?
I see what you are getting at. It makes sense that they are related.
a concept of one to try and imitate what one does in a violent game. Though I do not completely believe that one will go off and kill someone for playing a game. One may stay in the state of mind of thinking their in the game, though for the game to stimulate a death in the mind it has to be a game where the mind tends to believe it is non-fiction rather then fiction. I have as well played violent video games, though I have not done any wrong doings by playing it. One not necessarily needs to play a violent game to blame their reason of action. If one did a crime it may be the fact that they where brought up with a crime/violent life of being. Not literally, what I mean by that is pressure to do crime.
Hey! I liked your article. I am not exactly sure how I feel about violence in video games. Last semester, I read an article about emotional memory. I do not remember the writer and I am not sure if I still have it, but it was about how the US government encourages some individuals in the military to play violent video games in order to build up their threshold for emotional memory, so that when they are in combat and experience violence first hand, they have a decreased risk of getting Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The other information I want to share comes from the human cognition (psych) book that I am studying from right now. It shares some examples about processing visual information and includes several studies on video gamers. The result of these groups of studies concluded that playing video games can enhance one's ability to process visual information. The study was done by Green & Bavelier in 2006. I just thought it was an interesting tidbit of information.
I've heard about people in the military playing video games for that reason. It makes sense in a way. That other piece of information is quite interesting.