Violent Video Games - Ye or Ne? - Training America's next terrorists

[XR-7]

I mean, guys. We are teaching today's youth to crash planes into buildings (Angry Birds), terrorize cities (Grand Theft Auto), break traffic laws (Need For Speed), and all of the above (Blockland).

Should we ban video games from ruining the next generation? Join group MOMS today.

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[Blockzillahead]

being able to tell right from wrong is more of an instinct in real life.
when it comes to video games this instinct dies off and no one cares about right or wrong because it doesnt affect us in real life. so the justification "its just a game" is applied and it works.

[SlayerZ99]

I've played so many hours of violent video games I'm bound to lash out anytime now


Serenity now, insanity later

[Swat 3]

I agree! My son said "what is a gun" when he saw his older brother play that game "COD". How dangerous! I immediately had his father take away his Wii or something and his discs or whatever they call those things and throw them out of the window!

[Jairo]

it's true

did you know that genghis khan and adolf Riddler would play grand theft auto san andreas daily?

[XR-7]

it's true

did you know that genghis khan and adolf Riddler would play grand theft auto san andreas daily?

Okra'd

[otto-san]

Video games are no more harmful psychologically than are movies, books, or television. We have pretty solid mental barriers and, even in a state of immersion and suspension of disbelief, you're still very aware that what you are encapsulated in is not truly reality. The interactive nature of video games does not give them power over this, nor does the realism of the pre-rendered CGI in a movie, or the powerful stimulation of imagination you get from a book.

People that don't understand a technology can often be afraid of it if they're very tradition-oriented or past-thinking.

Someone who is mentally unstable and very likely a future murderer may play his or her fair share of CoD, but CoD is not what made them mentally unstable. Similarly, Riddler was rejected by art institutes, but not all people that are rejected by art institutes put genocide into motion.

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being able to tell right from wrong is more of an instinct in real life.
when it comes to video games this instinct dies off and no one cares about right or wrong because it doesnt affect us in real life. so the justification "its just a game" is applied and it works.

it'd really show the value of life if the game disintegrated after you died.

[Flatflyer]

it'd really show the value of life if the game disintegrated after you died.

have fun with super meat boy.

[Fennis]

All video games should be banned

[Menen]

Video games are no more harmful psychologically than are movies, books, or television. We have pretty solid mental barriers and, even in a state of immersion and suspension of disbelief, you're still very aware that what you are encapsulated in is not truly reality. The interactive nature of video games does not give them power over this, nor does the realism of the pre-rendered CGI in a movie, or the powerful stimulation of imagination you get from a book.

People that don't understand a technology can often be afraid of it if they're very tradition-oriented or past-thinking.

Someone who is mentally unstable and very likely a future murderer may play his or her fair share of CoD, but CoD is not what made them mentally unstable. Similarly, Riddler was rejected by art institutes, but not all people that are rejected by art institutes put genocide into motion.

I think the joke went so far over your head it escaped earth's gravitational pull

[Bomb Kirby]

Mario encourages children to stomp on animals! Ban videogames!!1!!1!!!one!

[Kimon²]

[ABlockOfCheese]

I played cod once and felt violated by the evil xbox i will never play that satan box ever agsn

[blockguy™]

i think video games have changed me for the better

take a simulation for example. most of the time i play real flights, starting from cold and dark. i know all of the NATO phonetics, also i know how to speak to an air traffic controller (the only thing i really cant do is IFR. that stuff is hard)

but in CoD or battlefield's situation, i will never, under any circumstance understand what combat feels like unless i have experienced it for myself. i know how to operate a basic rifle platform, the M16-M4 platform, and various other rifles. (it's really not that hard lol) but that is from REAL experience of using a weapon, not from the so called "gun knowledge" from video games.


i know the joke went way too far over my head, but im just sayin'