Video games do/do not cause violence

[Atty]

Go.

[thehoodedsmack]

Could benefit from a poll. Also, they do not cause violence in the traditional cause-effect relationship. Can video-games alter mindsets and personalities? Yes, but for the most part this is harmless. The problems arise when you get impressionable people who desperately want to be badass. It's like the people who think Pandora is real and that they're actually trapped spirits of the Na'vi. Some people are just like that.

People can make a two-hour documentary on a handful of violent gamers and it'll cause a ruckus. You could do the same thing about the millions of average gamers, but parents, government officials, and other regulators of media are less likely to care.

[Cojafoji]

Eh, maybe I'm mincing words, but I definitely think that certain video games can desensitize children towards violence. If you buy a child something like F.E.A.R. and all they do is shoot other people, they're not going to have as much of a problem shooting someone as say a child who's never been exposed to that sort of thing.

/Turbo-hypothetical.

[CrAsHOvErRide]

Everything has been said. /Thread

[Heathen]

People actually believe that video games cause violence?

Of course they don't.

No one reading the bible went and slaughtered animals to make god happier. 15:9-10

[Inferno]

This thread is familiar...

Anyways. I need to get back to CoD. I am learning how to use real guns from a video game.

[flibitijibibo]

Games don't cause violence. "Games cause violence" causes violence.

[Ifafudafi]

Violent games are a "risk factor," meaning that if somebody already has violent tendencies, playing violent games has a good chance of making them even more aggressive.

But saying that violent games makes everyone violent is like saying that milk can kill everyone because a few people with severe lactose intolerance exist, and that's just dumb.

[Con]

No one reading the bible went and slaughtered animals to make god happier. 15:9-10
You don't know this. There are always extreme cases. Generally, video games do not cause violence.

e: what ifafudafi said

[Ganon]

God of War literally just shot someone, I saw it happen.

Weak minds cause problems and violence

[STLRamsFan]

It can, it just really depends on the situation. Generally speaking, no they don't. I don't buy that whole thing that playing violent games is gonna make everyone serial killers. There are a bunch of different situations you have to account for, the person, how seriously he/she takes the game (are they allowing the game to consume themselves), life situation, social life, and so on. It just really depends, little kids can definitely be influenced if their parents are not careful, of course how many parents these days are actually good ones... I believe it has to do with more on the life and social life situation than anything. Violent games making a serial killer out of people? People should actually investigate the person's life than just going "Well the guy played Perfect Dark so that was definitely the cause of the killings. And that's our investigation wrap up.".

[Dwood]

Video Games do not explicitly cause violence. Just like Porn doesn't cause rape.

[n00b1n8R]

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[PlasbianX]

A spongebob game sparks just as much activity in the brain as a grand theft auto game. 'nuff said.

[ICEE]

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I think ifafudafi already solved this thread by being correct and smart.



Violent games are a "risk factor," meaning that if somebody already has violent tendencies, playing violent games has a good chance of making them even more aggressive.

But saying that violent games makes everyone violent is like saying that milk can kill everyone because a few people with severe lactose intolerance exist, and that's just dumb.

Fact.

/thread

[Good_Apollo]

Violent people cause violence. Games are at no more fault than a handgun. If it's not guns/videogames/drugs/music then it's something else...humans are just violent.

[Heathen]

Weak minds cause problems and violence
this this a thousand times this


the thread can end in peace now, along with the topic

edit: and saying that humans are predisposed to be violent is horseshit.

[Boba]

post thread about how video games cause violence on video game forum

not biased at all

[Jean-Luc]

To be blunt: fuck no, at least not directly.

The only time videogames could possibly be linked to causing violence is when the user stops separating fantasy from reality. But that could be linked to ANYTHING, not just videogames.

Remember folks: Fantasies, no matter how outlandish, are perfectly fine as long as you can accept that they are. not. real. Period.

[Good_Apollo]

There's nothing that isn't biased in some way. Individuals always think at their level ultimately. Regardless the fact remains that there's as much evidence of video games turning people into killers as there is for weed making people psychotic.

[sleepy1212]

Video games do cause violence...

violence toward the crotch because they don't go outside enough to get some.

[ejburke]

I'll type up a proper reply when I'm done slamming this hooker's head in a car door. Short answer: yes.

[Pooky]

post thread about how video games cause violence on video game forum

not biased at all

Generally speaking, the majority of people who don't actually play video games know absolutely fuck-all about them and thus are unqualified to make this sort of judgement (see: Faux News).

[paladin]

Some games I guess can influence younger people, but then again, those people shouldn't and aren't supposed to be playing those games

parents :eng101:

[=sw=warlord]

Video Games do not explicitly cause violence. Just like Porn doesn't cause rape.
This post makes me even more concerned than anything else.
If people came to that conclusion then it's pretty obvious they've been watching violent porn or assumes that's all there is out there.
Either way, they must be pretty messed in the head to be whacking off to the image of someone being raped.

[Dwood]

This post makes me even more concerned than anything else.
If people came to that conclusion then it's pretty obvious they've been watching violent porn or assumes that's all there is out there.
Either way, they must be pretty messed in the head to be whacking off to the image of someone being raped.

You missed my point by a hair i dare say.

[Inferno]

People jerk it because they can't have sex.
People play shooters because they can't actually go around shooting people.

That's what he meant.

[ICEE]

After playing pokemon I went around kicking sand in rabbits eyes to lower their accuracy.

vidyagaems made me do it guys vOv

[bravo22]

I agree that video games can influence the METHOD with which sickos commit acts of violence (i.e. imitating Manhunt) but as for actually causing the violent tendencies, no way.

[Inferno]

I just killed 20 people.

In unreal 3. I'm a sicko.

[Yoko]

I buy Halo 3 for my child even though he's only 7, I think he's old enough to start playing M rated games /everyparentinamericaever
:cirnosmug:

[flibitijibibo]

Some copypasta from /v/, thought it would be nice for this thread:

>Work at Gamestop
>Mom buying GTA for her 6-year-old
"You know this is M-rated, right?"
>"I don't care."
"There's violence..."
>"I don't care."
"Foul language..."
>"I don't care."
"Drugs and alcohol..."
>"I don't care."
"Sexual themes..."
>"WHAT? WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE THESE DAYS? I'M NOT BUYING THIS FOR YOU TIMMY."

:|

[ultama121]

Killing is fine as long as you're not a heathenish fornicator.

[n00b1n8R]

SEXUAL REPRODUCTION IS IMMORAL PROTECT ARE KIDS

[JackalStomper]

ARE

KIDS


ARE

SACRED, HOW DARE THEY DO THIS TO US HARD WORKING PARENTS

[Atty]

I should lock this, since I only made it to get you all to do my homework, which you did...I got an A. Thanks dudes.

[paladin]

Liar you got a C-