Do Violent Video Games actually make people Violent?

[Slugger]

Yes, I do think so. People who play violent video games excessively are more prone to becoming violent in the real world, it is an encouragement. If you noticed this too, almost all American massacre shooters were hardcore gamers to violent video games.

No, people who do that are mentally unstable. They would have done something just as sadistic, its in that persons nature. That doesn't mean we can't stop them, but blaming it on video games is a lame excuse for what could have been years of signs of mental instability.

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[Alyx Vance]

Documentaries, friends, family members, articles from the NY Times and the BBC, and various other sources. Addicts can never admit that they have a problem, and most don't realize how irrationally they may act as a result of the games.

Welp, I guess that your facts HAVE to be right then.
I guess I'll go and kill some people and steal their cars.


Seriously, you clearly are being fed stuff. I've been a gamer for many years and I don't get all crazy over the game. Yea I get mad when I lag and such but thats not the fault of the fact its a violent game.

[Jaxx]

most sane people can distinguish from fantasy and reality and have a grasp of right and wrong.

if anything, violent video games may be a way to vent their stress and such to an extent.

if you're not of the same mental caliber as most fully developed human beings maybe it'd hurt your stability a bit, but to the common person i seriously doubt it'd hurt you any more than movies, the evening news, or the real world.

basically.
playing violent video games doesn't turn you into a sociopath, but sociopaths playing might find more reason to be violent in real life. it's basically just an avenue of opening up whatever emotions you've got contained.

[bob12378]

Yes, I do think so. People who play violent video games excessively are more prone to becoming violent in the real world, it is an encouragement. If you noticed this too, almost all American massacre shooters were hardcore gamers to violent video games.

people totally played CoD and BF in the Crusades. They were super hardcore gamers.

/sarcasm

[otto-san]

I don't get it. A video game is just a virtual game, there isn't much to understand about it. An elderly person is more than capable to understand the drift. It is just a fact that it does effect the human mind.

it's not understanding the concept of a video game, it's understanding the experience of the psychological effects firsthand.

[Alyx Vance]

people totally played CoD and BF in the Crusades. They were super hardcore gamers.

/sarcasm

Riddler obviously played games about war.

[Bisjac]

violent games make stupid people violent. that's a fact.

but violent games do not make people stupid.

the news fails to report the other common things shooters did that week. like eat corn, wear jeans, and pay phone bills.
all must lead to violence.

[Dequire]

I don't get it. A video game is just a virtual game, there isn't much to understand about it. An elderly person is more than capable to understand the drift. It is just a fact that it does effect the human mind.

Maybe they can get a bit of the drift, but an elderly person has a much harder time grasping new information and technology. Ever wonder why your grandmother always needs help figuring out her new TV? It's literally been scientifically proven.

I don't mean to insult the elderly, but they just don't quite get that it's just a bunch of moving images. It isn't actually happening. It's simulated for enjoyment, and a person's brain doesn't take in everything it see's from it as instant truth. From their day and age, when their mind was still geared to take in new information, a television was mostly used as an information broadcast, like the news. When someone watches the news, they do it to take in new information to learn. I'm assuming that's where a lot of the stereotypical "Violent games make violent people" bullstuff comes from.

Then again, I could be spouting off a bunch of stuff. I don't know everything.

[otto-san]

i don't think it's a valid argument to say "well where did x old dead criminal from the 1950s get their motivation?" unless someone's claiming that video games are the only cause of violent behaviour.

[Caribou]

No, people who do that are mentally unstable. They would have done something just as sadistic, its in that persons nature. That doesn't mean we can't stop them, but blaming it on video games is a lame excuse for what could have been years of signs of mental instability.

I am just trying to say that a lot of the time the games cause the mental instability. It is the parents fault for providing these games to little kids at young ages especially when the kid has a troubling emotional problem.

people totally played CoD and BF in the Crusades. They were super hardcore gamers.

/sarcasm

I've been rockin' with Guitar Hero since Jesus was born.

Welp, I guess that your facts HAVE to be right then.
I guess I'll go and kill some people and steal their cars.


Seriously, you clearly are being fed stuff. I've been a gamer for many years and I don't get all crazy over the game. Yea I get mad when I lag and such but thats not the fault of the fact its a violent game.

I didn't say they were right or wrong though, however if proven by scientists and brain-researchers I would guess that they are right.

[otto-san]

I am just trying to say that a lot of the time the games call the mental instability. It is the parents fault for providing these games to little kids at young ages especially when the kid has a troubling emotional problem.

yes, ratings exist for a reason and shame on parents that do that.

I didn't say they were right or wrong though, however if proven by scientists and brain-researches I would guess that they are right.

eh, gotta take into account the entire experiment involved and see if it actually makes sense the way they did it before believing studies like that

[RaR]

You know all this "video games make people violent!!" garbage came out after the Columbine shooting. The literal only reason they had to think this was because the shooters enjoyed the game Quake. Nothing to do with the fact that the shooters were sociopaths that were stressed and bullied into murderous rage. That's literally it.

Correlation =/= Causation.

[Decepticon]

IMO, it depends on the person's mental stability.

If you get a thought of something like "holy stuff what if I [insert something crazy/horrific here]? that would be forgeted up.", that doesn't mean you're instantly a completely crazy, mentally unstable going-to-be-serial-killer.

If your mental health is stable, you're most likely going to be able to tell the difference between reality and fantasy; I feel bad for pixels (As in I feel bad whenever I shoot some random innocent most of the time), but most people won't because they're simple pixels, while in real life that mentally stable person knows that if a person gets shot, it's not just a pre-recorded audio file going "AHHHH", nor are they just virtual feelings.

[ßlöükfáce]

IMO, it depends on the person's mental stability.

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[MrFreestyle2000]

If it really matters.... I mean really, if you're one to get motivated by stuff like blood and gore so easily, then yes, if not, no. SIMMMPLEEE