Many instances of school shootings, bombings, or killing is often pointed at video games as the cause, but is it really their fault? Just because a game allows you to kill civilians does not mean that someone will want to do it, I have recently had a discussion with a friend who saw on the news that the game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, was to blame for the recent Russian bombing because the game has a level where you are able to kill civilians in a Russian airport. [url=http://www.inquisitr.com/96636/russian-media-pins-blame-for-suicide-bombing-on-call-of-duty-game/]
The video games that allowing innocent killing does not mean they support it. How a person is raised and treated growing up is why they would even consider this, which most kids have enough commen sense to know, you cannot "restart" or "respond" in life. I strongly disagree to the idea that video games are the cause of most killings today.
Saying that Video Games cause people to kill everyone is like saying "because my friends and I enjoy having wars with airsoft guns we are going to start a shootout and kill everyone"
If you easily get mad, this could influence the effect of anger when you don't kill something, and possibly cause someone to want to kill something no matter where.
If you easily get mad, this could influence the effect of anger when you don't kill something, and possibly cause someone to want to kill something no matter where.
I don't think there's a direct link.. of course, as someone who used to be rather choleric when something in the game (not shooters, mind you) didn't work at all, I know very well that one can get pretty angry :P but yelling and hitting on the couch was everything I needed to calm me down, it would never have crossed my mind to hit a person or an animal. Here again I think it necessites an already existing psychological trouble, that is simply triggered by anger.
No. There's a difference between causing and influencing, however, and then differences between influencing and other roles video games have played in criminal actions. Causing would be hating a video game and then massacring the development team - that would not happen, but it exemplifies what a video game causing a murder (or murders) would be. However, chainsawing a fat guy in Manhunt or shooting a prozzy in the face with a shotgun on Grand Theft Auto is enough to influence someone into doing this. There may be other premises for any murder, video games merely give them a outlined flavour for how to murder somebody. And aside from influence you've got other things, you can conduct a plan:
I recall that in one of the particularly infamous shootings, recreations of his school were mapped out in Doom. Does that mean that Doom caused or even influenced the shootings? It could, but there's no evidence to hold such an indictment against Doom. Shooting an alien spider thing on Mars bears no relation to shooting someone in real life. Doom, however, gave him the mapping tools to recreate the school in full 3D (which was pretty much done by Doom) and devise some plan. It gave him the tools to devise a plan for a decision he'd already made: to hold a school shooting.
It all comes down to parenting and on how psychologically stable the person is. The people that conduct these crimes must have a hard time distinguishing reality from the virtual world: that can come from innate psychological issues, it can also come from things that happen later in life, namely depression. Depression does cloud your perception of things quite severely in the most extreme cases and that's where video games have influenced and helped in conducting criminal offences.
But it has reached a certain point: nowadays a lot of crap is put on video games. Some cases I can agree on, others? It's just the media hiding an anti-video campaign. Shooting people in Modern Warfare 2 in a Russian airport and then it happening in real life? There's been instability and terrorist groups wreaking havoc in Russia for decades. It's like me predicting that I'm going to get a phone call tomorrow: of course I'm going to get a bloody phone call! It's reached a point where everything can be put on video games and that I fundamentally oppose. To some extent, video games can be cause, but now people are just paranoid about there influence on people.
Okay I could only read Elite's first paragraph before I started snoring. :P
Influencing? Pretty much everything has an influence, and video games, being as people often use this as their downtime and actually focus on it (especially at younger ages) opens it up much more.
Oh and yeah, people who are paranoid about such things are pretty stupid. If they feel the need to watch what they do then obviously they are doing something wrong anyway. Unlike me, tbh. I always make sure I do "the right thing", and that doesn't boil down to a meditating pacifist. Oh right, I just influenced someone, and? I said that because that's what some people would assume I meant. By right thing I mean "boiled down the the sole right decision" kinda thing. :P Hard to explain, so I'm not going to.
Video Games kinda do good and bad. But mostly good because it helps us become better problem solvers because in games we must THINK, same thing for real life. If you like bloody games, chances are you might be a good surgeon. Violence can be more than games. It can be depression or hundreds of other reasons. I hate people who think video games are all bad and are a curse or something like that. Another good thing about video games is we can use common sense more often. Like if you cant climb a wall in Halo, you can use that common sense in real life. I think and others should agree that video games are a positive thing most of the time.
I think and others should agree that video games are a positive thing most of the time.
Playing video games can have a good impact like for example better spacial perception; just don't overdo with it. It has been shown that when teenies, who go through important developing processes, stay at hoome playing video games all the time without doing much else, they become far more impulsive and prey to their drives, lacking selfcontrol. But this is rather independent of the video game itself of course, violent or not.
the answer is short an simple: video games don't make you want to kill someone. It's just a punching bag for the media. Badly made reportages do the rest where old man, with no idea what games are about, say "oh yeah games are so brutal, you get extra points for killing in a very brutal way" in fact they were talking about counter strike (counter strike doesn't reward points for brutal killing at all)...I don't remember when I saw this but I laughed as it was very obvious that these people don't know anything about games but still blame the games for the instable psyche of people.
I think Penn and Teller already covered this one. They took a kid about ten years old who always played violent video games. They gave him an assault rifle and put him on a range where he could shoot to his hearts content. There were people around evrywhere! Anti violence activists were scared he would go crazy and shoot at [/b]people, instead of targets.
Needless to say he took one shot at a paper cutout, the rifle recoiled and hit him in the collar bone, he cried for a while, his mom took him home...
My cousin works in the industry and it really makes me angry when epople say this, if people go into a school and shoot a bunch of people, it may be because of a video game,irs not the fcat that playing on it instantly turns you into a violent madman, it means your parents are using the console to raise you, this all comes down to bad parenting, not bloddy video games!!
