Poll: Do Video Games cause violent behavior?
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I had to do this topic for an English essay. I spent a lot of time studying, having interest in it because I'm a gamer myself. Upon studying I found many arguments and included them in my speech but I ultimately went for the 'no'.
My teacher failed me simply because 'my answer was wrong'.
It was an opinionated speech.
Note that the teacher was very, very old. Now I have no problem with people saying that the answer is yes, but failing a speech because you disagree is disgusting!
My teacher failed me simply because 'my answer was wrong'.
It was an opinionated speech.
Note that the teacher was very, very old. Now I have no problem with people saying that the answer is yes, but failing a speech because you disagree is disgusting!
no way. sure there are the crazy ones, but you'll always get crazy people no matter what anyway (there was a 16 yr old who got done for murder a while ago because he watched a horror movie and you dont see that medium getting banned). doing things in real life is completely different from doing them on a controller. why is it so hard for people to understand that?
Wow, really? You really got an F because your answer was "wrong"? How can opinion and especially opinion backed up by research be wrong? Who does she think she is? The all knowing one? I think she's trying to force her views on you, and the worst part is that she's supposed to be educated. She's a friggin teacher for gods' sake. This should not happen. Ever.Westy215 said:
And no, I don't think video games cause violent behavior. You know why? I played GTA Vice City when I was seven and I have aspergers syndrome. I haven't killed a single person and cried for nearly a whole day after punching a fellow student on the bus one morning because he mocked me until I snapped. I haven't gone on any shooting rampages in real life so far. I'm living proof that these damn theories are wrong. Furthermore, if I don't follow a religion, I shouldn't have to follow their rules. SIMPLE! But no, they have to keep trying to push their bullshit censorship laws on us on the guise of protecting the children or protecting people from themselves. I don't want to be protected from myself. I like me.
Grilled Cheesus said:
Guys. This is an English project. They don't want facts. No, seriously. I've been told this by my teacher. It's more about how you write and analyse that they're interested in. Though apparently mentioning Michael Moore documentaries is a sure fire way to make English markers pay attention. A lot of them like him it seems.evilartist said:
OT: Indirectly, certainly. In no way are they the direct cause, but you'll never see a case of one thing being the cause of a major problem like mental illness or whatever.
If a child, or adult, is sufficiently unbalanced already, violent media, be they video games, movies even books, may exacerbate the situation. It's likely, however, that games were a small influence, just the thing that tipped an already very disturbed person over the edge.
Violent video games do not cause people to be violent any more than movies like Saw or Friday 13th cause people to murder other people. If a guy has issues, nobody really knows what will set him off - it may be a video game, a movie, or a crappy song in the radio, or a tv commercial which is particularly stupid.
I, for one thing, have found that violence in video games helps me unwind. Especially when I was younger, playing Mortal Kombat or Doom was a way to imagine that I'm kicking the crap out of somebody who screwed with me the same day, or made me angry. So venting anger in a non-violent way (mashing buttons is not violence).
Plus, I still feel my stomach turn when I see a dead animal on the road, and I still can't watch bloody horror movies. So there you go, no help from Mortal Kombat and all those FPS games in this regard.
I, for one thing, have found that violence in video games helps me unwind. Especially when I was younger, playing Mortal Kombat or Doom was a way to imagine that I'm kicking the crap out of somebody who screwed with me the same day, or made me angry. So venting anger in a non-violent way (mashing buttons is not violence).
Plus, I still feel my stomach turn when I see a dead animal on the road, and I still can't watch bloody horror movies. So there you go, no help from Mortal Kombat and all those FPS games in this regard.
Let us look at some of the people who commit violent acts:
Kids who want to look hard
Kids who are extremely stupid and haven't heard of negotiations
Kids who think punching a bully will get them to stop
It is extremely likely that the majority of these kids will be male (as its natural instinct to beat up other males).. And what do the vast majority of male kids play.. video games.. and what's the most common type of video game.. the violent kind..
So we've established a pattern that because 99% of male kids play violent (semi-violent) games therefore the violence they do is a consequence of playing video games.. I don't think so..
Did Hitler play any violent video games? No he didn't. Stalin, Crusaders, Romans? No, no, no
It just so happens that violence is man's natural answer to everything, or was in ye-olde natural instinctive times..
Most of the time, its being bullied, self-contained maniac or just misunderstood that leads to violent acts..
Note: I play minecraft yet commonly want to beat the s*** into some people, but I have a thing called SELF CONTROL....
THE END
Kids who want to look hard
Kids who are extremely stupid and haven't heard of negotiations
Kids who think punching a bully will get them to stop
It is extremely likely that the majority of these kids will be male (as its natural instinct to beat up other males).. And what do the vast majority of male kids play.. video games.. and what's the most common type of video game.. the violent kind..
So we've established a pattern that because 99% of male kids play violent (semi-violent) games therefore the violence they do is a consequence of playing video games.. I don't think so..
Did Hitler play any violent video games? No he didn't. Stalin, Crusaders, Romans? No, no, no
It just so happens that violence is man's natural answer to everything, or was in ye-olde natural instinctive times..
Most of the time, its being bullied, self-contained maniac or just misunderstood that leads to violent acts..
Note: I play minecraft yet commonly want to beat the s*** into some people, but I have a thing called SELF CONTROL....
THE END
THIS HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT ILL STALK YOU TO YOUR HOME KILL YOU THEN DRINK YOUR MF BLOOD I HATE YOU SO MUCH IM FOAMING OUTTA MY MOUTH GODDDDD.
hey videogames do what?
hey videogames do what?
I'll use an example I used when I answered on a thread like this one:
Killing hundreds of people in COD does not want to make me go out and knife people.
Killing hundreds of people in COD does not want to make me go out and knife people.
...You're asking a gaming forum. That's like going on the Twilight forum and asking, 'Is Twilight awesome?'
I think a video game can trigger violence, but it depends entirely on the person at hand. If the person does have some kind of problem, then it could have been anything that triggered it; a game, a book, a movie, a comic.
I think a video game can trigger violence, but it depends entirely on the person at hand. If the person does have some kind of problem, then it could have been anything that triggered it; a game, a book, a movie, a comic.
I am, simply put, fucking sick of this argument. Videogames may cause violent behavior if the person playing them is a massively antisocial jerk who hasn't seen sunlight in a year and doesn't have a job, doesn't study or is completely without any time constraints in some other way.
For once I'd like to see a study about, say if hockey fans are more violent than other people. When you start to think about what the sport is like, it seems almost obvious.
For once I'd like to see a study about, say if hockey fans are more violent than other people. When you start to think about what the sport is like, it seems almost obvious.
Well, games have never prompted me to go out on some sort of killing spree, but I'd be lying if I didn't confess that I've yelled at the screen/tossed a controller away in disgust a few times. Not many, but some games are just really frustrating... =P
i would have been a seriel murder by now but i aint, when i was 9 years old i played "Soldirer of Fortune" you can shoot off limbs and pretty much do massive carnage 
i saw braveheart when i was 8 years old (still an awesome movie <3) and by now all the most violent games ive played through the years, so when ppl come and say gaming makes you violent is totally bs...
i saw braveheart when i was 8 years old (still an awesome movie <3) and by now all the most violent games ive played through the years, so when ppl come and say gaming makes you violent is totally bs...