Thursday, 26 April 2012
Vidya Games!
So, in recent months I have noticed that there has been a lot of
publicity about video games causing violence (games like GTA, Saints Row
3, ect.). How many people that are not scared, overly cautious
protective parents actually agree with this? I personally think that if
anything, video games are an outlet for negative emotions rather than
the cause of them. Say you got really angry with a friend, and wanted to
punch them. If you went and punched somebody in a game, that anger is
(mostly) gone. Do you agree? Disagree? Commenter’s, commence!
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This was actually proved (This is just an example http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/05/teens_videogame_anger_mgmt/).In cases where the child has all most any attention affecting condition, or in extreme cases of impressionability (or even when a child just isn't the brightest) they can take the video game as an example and then repeat what they saw. This problem was supposedly "solved" when they started to issue those warnings at the begging of games and TV shows (Jackass is the most obvious example). These children who repeated what they saw were turned into the examples used by anxious or overprotective parents to try and limit the violence showed in video games, hence the Australian R rating and the new restrictions introduced by *I think* America then the rest of the world.
ReplyDelete"In cases where the child has almost any attention affecting condition, or in extreme cases of impressionability". I think that just about invalidates it itself.
Delete(Not trying to rip you up. I just want to rip up that idea.)