The War Against Video Games

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lead to violence. Gun violence has more to do with guns in video games than real ones. Are they going to become violent just for playing grand theft auto? Halo and these games. There has been a lot of research showing a link between violent video games and aggression. Violent video games increase aggressive behavior. These video games for me are murder simulators. He was trained to kill Call of Duty. other small video games that escalated quickly I mean it really got out of control quickly it's a story as old as time a new fad or idea is becoming popular in societies around the world many people approve of it and many others condemn it from so far back like in the first century when Christianity started to appear and the Roman Empire had banned this new religion that they feared or in the 4th century when Aristotle claimed that the Earth was round but his theory was still opposed by people who believed it was flat, The same thing happened When newspapers started to become popular and were accused of ruining social interaction, just as the smartphones and mobile devices we have today are claimed to be doing the same, there is always something in this world of ours that It is destroying the very fabric of society for centuries.

It was the pamphleteers who were reprimanded for bringing down society in the 50s it was the comics and in the 60s it was the Beatles and in a hearing some supposed forensic scientists said that a comic promotes sadistic fantasies among children, that comic was Superman for try it. Blaming Shakespeare and violence on Shakespeare and violence and art for violence that happens in the real world is something that has been tried for years and is always wrong whenever a new form of media emerges that particularly older generations don't. they use and I don't understand, it's very common for new media to be blamed for a variety of social ills, it's the same old song and dance, you know, rock and roll and everything you want to choose over the years and now currently.

The new fad that has faced opposition for the last 40 years is video games. There has been a tremendous amount of reports, articles, discussions, and research regarding the correlation between video games and real-life negative consequences. The key words: Violent video games are often at the forefront. Of these reports, some of them would have you believe that playing Grand Theft Auto will make you want to steal a car or that Watchdogs teaches players how to hack tablets and spy on people in their own homes. This game is teaching people how to hack that. to whatever is stuck in your bedroom, some articles claim that there really is no problem, but if you have ever read a Darwin Awards book, you know that there are a lot of stupid people in this world who die or kill people stupidly because They're Stupid, you know, I don't think video games make people do stupid things, but sometimes they make stupid people do stupid things.

I've reviewed tons of different articles, videos, and research on the topic, both for and against violent video games and both sides, no. It matters, the source is always expressed differently, but with the same message video games are responsible for the turmoil of real life and video games are not responsible with such massive and in-depth coverage. Research on the topic, join me as I take an in-depth look at both. sides and examine this 40 year war against gaming, the graphics are so good this attack is IR, really be a terrorist and kill hours playing violent video games like Doom.

Cold-blooded murder is making Mortal Kombat the most popular video game, now a full-scale battle. has coalesced between the video game industry and its opponents, it's hard to think of anything that has changed as quickly and rapidly as the medium of video games, other than the technology itself, which comes from something as simple as two rectangles hitting a square. up to a full interactive FL. A film that can seem as real as any Hollywood production, with characters that make you care, a universe in which you can feel immersed and a fun factor that you can share with your friends and family as technology has improved, just as than the level of realism that video games create.

There is something in the life of video games that has not changed beyond the graphics, the controller, the platform on which it is played or the players who buy it, what has not changed is the war against them, while the Games in this 40 year period have evolved into a legitimate art form and business that employs thousands of people, the same old tired arguments are used to vilify video games and the people who buy them, the examples are countless since the days of pinball and pong machines in the 1970s to the current era of Grand Theft. Auto Call of Duty and many other franchises, these people we will call anti-Gamers, have maintained a constant war against video games that they believe simulate and promote murders, rapes, robberies and other despicable crimes.

In 1976, an arcade game called Death Race was criticized in the media for having the player run over Gremlins that apparently resembled stick figures that could resemble real people, since if you could somehow see this unspeakable series of pixels As a human being, in retrospect, this Death Race could be seen as the progenitor of the Grand Theft Auto series. In the early 1980s, Ronnie Lamb sought legislation that would control the proximity of which an arcade could be created around schools. A legal restraining order against video games. In 1992, the original Mortal Kombat was released, being one of the first highly publicized games to depict blood.

Gore to such an extent that it sparked massive media outrage that led to the creation of the ESRB in the United States and several other game rating systems around the world, the Entertainment Software Rating Board, a company whose sole purpose is to regulate and assign ratings to videos. games so that the people who buy the games know what type of content they will see in them, it is important to note that video games have been attacked by a large number of groups of gun enthusiasts and feminists from the NRA, popular religious pastors and Christian leaders. Criticism has come from the United States government and probably some European countries and the death of careful or paranoid parents and of course the media video game conglomerate has been so controversial that cases and laws have reached the Supreme Court.

Court these are the ones we'll be looking at except the feminists and the swjs which will be its own video so we've taken a look at a brief history of the war on video games in the past and there are so many examples it's unrealistic to list them all in a single video, but now let's look at the real arguments and the people who tried to condemn video games, video games, those things are leading many people to hell, ah, religion, the great opposition of almost all scientific or artistic advances in the world. In the last 2,000 years, just as they took a stance against the Round Earth theory, some religious leaders also take a stance against video games.

There are young girls in this church, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful young girls, and you know why they can't get a date. that Spirit took over the young people and then cursed the Xbox in the name of Jesus, oh my God that is just ridiculous and don't even get me started on the Xbox remote for your TV there are a lot of people looking to religion for advice and guidance in their lives to hopefully lead them down a better path, but would you believe that in recent years people have been looking to the Bible for answers about video games?

Says. I was wondering, in today's world of video games, is there any insight for this in the Bible, what does the Bible say about video games? Did you hear that. There are actually people on this planet who looked to the damn Bible for video game advice. Now, while this video and channel has everything disabled, the information it provides is actually not bad. Basically, it says that if you are addicted to video games and if they are harmful to your health, your job education or your relationships, then it would be best to avoid them and if video games don't cause problems in those areas of your life, then we are probably fine with playing them now. , we can't openly say that video games are a sin because the Bible doesn't talk about video games, it was written long before video games, yet this next man is much less reasonable in giving an ultimatum that would make Obi-Wan cringe if you were playing a video game and that video game contains sinful things, then that's wrong, it sounds like all the gears in this guy's head are working at full speed to articulate this basic sentence and that video.

The game contains things that are sinful. Now let's put this guy's logic against him. If you are reading a book that contains things that are sinful, then that is wrong. This guy probably doesn't even know that video games based on the Bible exist, but we. We'll just skip over the animal abuse in the super Noah Arc 3D. This elegantly dressed gentleman seeks to prove that video games are a cause of violent crimes. Let's hear what he has to say. Well, first of all, John God, God understands, he endures violence. Okay, you could. I have chosen a better or even relevant opening statement, but it continues, his son, Jesus Christ, was nailed to a tree for our sins and died for our sins and God raised him from the dead.

God understands violence, as much as I do. I would like to respond to the absurdity of this statement and the lack of relevance it has to the topic. I'm just going to say that religion, any religion, has absolutely no authority in the video game industry, but we can certainly tax them, John, uh, us. We can tax violence, why don't we try that? We do that to cigarettes, alcohol, why not? Why not tax violence correctly? The same as taxing a video game in which you shoot people. I should have expected such profound and undeniable logic from a religious fanatic, but here is the most important statement he makes.

Listen. I've had guns my whole life. My father gave me my first gun when he had it. Now, at 9 years old, it's far from me to criticize the cultural norms of our beautiful Confederate Southerners, but are you seriously arguing that giving a 99-year-old man a violent video game is more harmful than giving a physical gun to every person with the ones I grew up with? We had guns, but we didn't go around shooting people. Yeah, we weren't going around shooting people because we weren't crazy, just like most people who play violent video games don't go around shooting people because they're not crazy and their parents didn't give them a gun at 9 years old. most Christians who talk about video games are openly negative but there are a couple like this Pastor Bob who really have interesting and important things to say about it and I think if we followed the things everyone told us Christians should or shouldn't do , we would be exhausted and paralyzed.

You know, some things you really have to decide for yourself and this is one of those types of decisions that The unreasonable ones advocate for blind restriction, while the more compassionate Christians say it's up to you and I think that's more important. This channel here is probably the worst of all. 10 facts about hell that they are not telling you. 10 Facts About the Mark of the Beast Satan doesn't want you to know that someone should check the Bible and see if clickbait is a sin because if so, this guy is going to get burned if we focus on things that are not godly, that are worldly , which are sinful, will have a negative impact on our character and I believe it is a plan of the devil.

He wants to bombard us with violence so that we are so desensitized that when people hear the gospel it has little effect on them, the devil wants to desensitize us, but what about those games? where you actually know how to kill the devil or some evil forces, I mean, it's a game like Doom, so bad for having all those satanic images within these video games, it's actually the devil and the demons, they are their influence. Is there? His presence is there, but it cannot be seen with the natural eye. We are killing all that. That is something good.

We are preparing to kill demons when the Rapture comes. Who's to say Satan isn't going to do it? make a move huh the most ironic part about these christians being against violent video games is that they talk about how harmful violence is but at the same time they wear a necklace of a man nailed to a cross they preached the bible but they failed to make the connection that violence can be a source of learning is a tool used by storytellers andsame people who wrote the Bible that is the story of David and Goliath harmful to society because he cut off Goliath's head if the crucifixion of Jesus had been a source of powerful images if he had been buried alive, would we all be wearing earthen necklaces in place of the cross?

My point is that you cannot condemn any violent media because it contains violence, especially if you use religious texts as a source and then ignore the violence within your own beliefs, teachings or religion, now what these religious people seem unable to understand is the separation from the church and the separation of fantasy from reality and to summarize this religious section, I found the perfect comment. I am a Christian and I play video games. like Battlefield and Grand Theft Auto but I don't let it affect me because it's a video game. I don't really play video games.

I don't understand video games. I've never played a video game. I hate to say it. What is the name of Art of War? Man of War. what do the children play? I don't know anything about the Dopey game. I don't do this kind of thing if there's one thing that discredits most anti-gamers and their arguments against gaming are two things: their inability to understand the difference between fantasy and reality and their lack of experience with video games. , which makes them seem very disconnected. These games rewire your brain, rewire, we don't even know what they are. Still, this is something completely new, like Bill O'Reilly not even bothering to memorize a three-word title that is mentioned in every discussion of violent video games.

Will they become violent just by playing Grand Auto Theft Grand Auto? grand theft auto theft grand theft is even the name of a criminal guy, come on a lot of these people try to pose as experts in the field but anyone who actually plays video games can see through their façade like this guy here, so If you just like hunting mushrooms and you like being super big and playing Super Mario Brothers, who has ever used that kind of terminology when referring to a Mario game? No one, let alone those who have actually played it, many of these people sound like. uneducated they talk to the ignorant masses who don't play or understand video games and form their own circle of ignorance but gamers will immediately know they are crowded if someone watching isn't a game and if they are that rude I want point out I found out that games can do a lot of things that aren't murder, there's the Sims, there's Minecraft, that's all that's coming to mind right now, did this guy just post a video or is he really a gamer?

Don't think of any other video game that doesn't contain murder besides Minecraft and The Sims. What about almost every sports game ever created? Crash Bandicoot Custom Robo Kirby air ride Sonic Pac-Man What about puzzle games would you count? Lego Star Wars is a game that has murders, what about Guitar Hero Rock Band? All those rhythm games instantly, this guy has lost all credibility because he seems out of touch. In general, we all look for advice on things from people we think know what they're talking about. The source has to be credible for us to even consider believing in its validity, but even if someone has credibility they can still make arguments, it's easy to understand why gamers get so outraged when they see these people act like they know what they're about. speaking because to them, they are simply trivializing and generalizing gaming culture.

A large portion of anti-gamers are probably people who grew up in their 70s and 80s and obviously don't have any personal experience with gaming or gaming culture, but for some reason. Everyone thinks they are an authority on the subject and that their thoughts matter, like this shitty mouthpiece who isn't even sure if video games have a rating system and I think there is a warning about a lot of these games, are they available for Adults? content just as a friend, have you ever bothered to look at the cover of a game or go to a store and talk to people or a 30 second Google search before you appear on the news and start spouting your ignorance while you're on the other side?

In some of these videos, the people we see defending video games are either in an arcade with their kids or talking like they really know what they're talking about, you know, let's be honest, the 20th century with comics and movies when They appeared in everyone. time there is a new medium, people who don't have the experience you have playing them when they grew up don't really know what to do with them, so they find them confusing and a little alienating when When the novel came out, not everyone could read a book , so they didn't have, they weren't literate, so they couldn't fully understand it in the same way, not everyone basically uses a controller, so they have a literacy problem, so they can't really interact directly with the medium , so they really can't understand it.

I'm not going to pretend to be a psychology expert because I'm not, but you look at these psychology experts and I don't think they've ever played. any of these video games and they are telling the world what they say that video games are going to make people do or not do and it seems that everything is the other way around, people fear what they do not understand and hate what they cannot conquer and they are mainly these people who don't understand video games or video game culture who feel so empowered to speak out against it. The bottom line is that parents wonder if children can separate fantasy from reality.

The second piece of this puzzle is knowing and understanding the separation between reality and fantasy and many of these news reports and the inan ramblings of Glenn Beck claim that games like Call of Duty Battlefield and others have trained people how to shoot. and be murderers, but I ask everyone watching this now who have you ever used a firearm? Have there been any shooting games you've played that perfectly simulated what it feels like to shoot a firearm? A game that perfectly simulated the recoil of a pistol or an assault rifle. Call of Duty teaches you how to run with a firearm.

The controller has about as much weight as a shotgun and for the older NES folks who might be watching it was Duck, honey, a game that taught you how to shoot saucers out of the sky, of course, not because they're just games that don't and can't. do it. represent reality exactly as it is, you can't use a pair of nunchucks in a video game and then buy a pair of nunchucks and go Crazy Bruce Lee, just as you can't shoot a gun in a game and instantly buy a gun and a figure. Find out how it works right away, so the argument that shooting games train people and children to be killers is completely absurd; in fact, it is absurd across the board.

Now let's take a second to see how out of touch this guy is, so what is he? What he's going to do is open the door and knock the guy out. It's just fun to participate in Mayhem. I don't know, um, in New York City, who does he manage? Did he just run over that guy? Yeah, who is that guy? How did that guy find out that that's not the guy he threw out of the car? No, he was just wandering down the road, so you just ran over that guy for fun, look at the blood on him all over the front.

Also, is this either a fake reaction to simulate shock for the ignorant grandparents watching the show or this is a grown man who has been sheltered his whole life, had no friends who played video games and this is his first experience watching it. I don't understand how it's fun to ram someone, maybe because the game itself is fun, maybe it's super popular and sells a lot of copies for some reason, maybe people can do these crazy things in video games because the only consequences that happen are in the game and not in real life, maybe running over aliens is fun for the same reasons that running over people is Maybe we shoot our marines in Halo because they say funny, thank you sir, can I have another one?

No, it's not because I do that, actually I would. Shoot a real life sailor, dumb, neanderthal, let's keep using this logic. Playing Roller Coaster Tycoon trains me to be a competent architectural engineer or business expert. This game enables me to open my own theme park. Train me for how? building roller coasters, of course, not because it's a game, it doesn't represent reality, if you've driven the fastest cars in a Forza Motorsport game, does that mean you could get into a stock car and race around the NASCAR circuit like a professional there? There are some games made to be like simulations, but even then no simulation can prepare you enough to do anything in the real world.

You know, I don't know why I would want to simulate this if there was a video game where you got hit in the head with a snow shovel, would you want to know what it really felt like? You can't learn martial arts just by playing Mortal Kombat or watching Dragon Ball. You need to physically do and perform these things with your own body because it's muscle memory, it's that simple. Like that, one of the main reasons people play games is because they can do things they normally couldn't do in real life, but it's this lack of understanding of the difference between reality and fantasy that causes many of these anti -players arguments to lose all validity, many lawsuits have been proposed over the years that would hinder the gaming industry's capabilities on what they could put in their games and who could buy them.

I think most people don't care about the legal mumbo-jumbo, but gamers should Rejoice because most, if not all, of these laws were never passed along with California, nine other states passed laws banning the sale of violent video games to children, but legal challenges prevented any of those laws from taking effect, most judges actually thought that this law. is too vague, may be applied too broadly, and would be too burdensome on both the game developers and the game publishers, and too narrow on you, the First Amendment rights of even miners in a court of law judges many Sometimes they would not find a reasonable or demonstrable correlation between violent or obscene video games and actions that are violent or harmful to minors nor were any of the proposed laws written clearly enough for judges to take them seriously, most of the time they were too vague and the restrictions they proposed constituted a violation. of the first amendment, that glorious, beautiful first damn amendment and to paraphrase a judicial observer.

Today, Thomas Jefferson didn't have an Xbox, but when it comes to violent video games, no matter how graphic, the government can't ban their sale to children because, of course, Jefferson also represented protecting video games, probably the opponent. Most notable in the video game industry was a lawyer named Jack Thompson who had appeared in many of these videos and news media debates and had filed tons of lawsuits against retail video game production companies. whatever, this guy's wikipedia page is full of numerous lawsuits he has constantly filed against him blaming him and claiming that video games were responsible for certain shootings and murders, all of them were overturned, what's funny is that Jack Thompson was disbarred , which basically means you're fired. having been a lawyer in the United States for the rest of his life, this usually happens due to unethical or criminal conduct and I think that says a lot when Gaming's biggest opponent had his legal license revoked and it says a lot about the cases that Jack Thompson judged. to do against video games, everything ends up as it is now because no one has been able to sufficiently prove the relationship between violent and obscene video games and crimes in the real world and, from a legal point of view that tells us a lot about the war against video games, The court's ruling was C Still clear that the California statute was flawed in all legal aspects today the nation's highest court in a 7 to 2 decision ruled that the law is unconstitutional the games are protected by the First Amendment the Today's ruling by the court is a clear statement that video games are entitled to the same degree of First Amendment protection as movies, music and books.

Of course, one of the main concerns that these anti-gamers propagate is how Will all these games affect the impressionable minds of children the more children are involved in violence. on the screen that your own behavior can become more aggressive and more violent and many parents want to know what those games do to their children definitely not to the children definitely not to my children yes, that new factor that was never there before is visual images violence inflicted on children, particularly OB video games, but crime has gone down, juvenile crime has gone down maybe it's good for kids, are we afraid of our own kids?

Do we forget that they are also citizens and haveright to the essential freedom to read or not? We think our children are so evil, so vicious, so naive, but it only takes one story of murder in a comic magazine to subject them to murder, of robbery, to subject them to robbery, old friend, you have done it, do we think that our children are as susceptible to evil as all of them? What is needed is a video game about killing to force them to kill now, naturally adults and teenagers are able to understand things better than younger Minds, so of course the more obscene material should not be accessible for children, but whose job is it to regulate what they do?

Children digest in their heads. What do you say to parents who worry? It's too violent. It's not good for children. What I recommend is that your children go play with them. You know, so you can be there to answer questions. and help them get over that phrase that it all comes down to good parenting, let me tell you that kids hurting other kids is not some kind of new epidemic like this guy would have you believe. I know a lot of little kids who play these games. They're nice little kids and they're not going to go out and hurt anyone now, so look, that's not true, bill, they're hurt, they're hurting their brothers and sisters, they're hurting themselves like siblings never hurt each other.

They would have fought over who was going to go to The Swing first, that's just kids being kids, man, that's what it means to grow up with brothers and sisters. Anyone can testify to that look. I think we can all agree that many games out there should not be played by children as they should be. We don't watch certain movies or TV shows or how we don't want to say bad words and do stupid things in front of them. It is a parent's job to keep tabs on their children and know what they play and do in their younger years.

I think it is a good idea not to make a child play a violent video game, but that recommendation is not because doing so would make that child a murderer, but simply because doing so exposes him to something that will scare him and, as parents , to our Our job is to protect our children, if parents are so concerned about violent media affecting their children that they are responsible for what they allow them to watch, deflecting blame onto the forms of entertainment around us is simply a bad parenting.it's really that simple you're always talking about this degrading child that makes children Minds like vegetables talk about them in the street smoking marijuana everything is fun would you rather play video games that are violent or go out and beat each other up is better getting involved with drugs or something that you know has to do with your time when they don't have something to do when they walk the streets is when problems are created not because of the machines the lack of machines causes problems other experts say children I need a combination of all types of experiences and that each medium, including video, has something to offer.

An example of a violent video game would be GTA 5 Mayhem, killing Grand Theft Auto, playing Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto 5 or Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto Grand. Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto In all of my research, the most cited game that supposedly promotes violence in real life is yes, you guessed it, Cory in the House, and you know in the Although it is real, there are a couple of reasons why Grand Theft Auto is the most frequently referenced game: first, it makes a lot of money, second, it is very popular and recognizable by the masses ignorant and three, it allows players to do and experience many cultural taboos, but What I can say is that so much attention is paid to this game because in some incidents of car theft or violent crimes the perpetrator said something about Grand Theft Auto and when there's a shootout, he played Grand Theft Auto and it cost him this, that's not really a It's fair to say it's a popular escape C, but is it really fair to demonize this game series?

Is it fair to say that Rockstar is run by a group of sociopaths and should be shut down permanently? Down Rockstar because, oh yeah, because they're run by a bunch of sociopaths, uh, and they're a one-company crime spree. These few cases among the millions of people who bought and played these games are worth all this commotion. Of course not, but that hasn't stopped people from making grandiose claims like this. A callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stores violence against its own people through ruthless, violent video games does not fantasize about killing people as a form of real fun, the dirtiest form of pornography.

The irony of this statement is that this guy is the vice president of the NRA and he is blaming video games for real-world violence, because the NRA has nothing to do with guns or violence. They don't push for more lenient gun policies no, no, no, look, it's those violent video games that are to blame. I think this is really just a way to deflect any kind of blame from the mass shootings that have been happening in two video games. I really think that's it. You see, the argument against restricting games like Theft Auto is a slippery slope because if we as a society make arbitrary decisions about what developers can put in their games, what is acceptable if the government is creating legislation? and laws about what is acceptable, so this just creates a strict control on freedom of speech and freedom of expression because there is a difference, there is a very slippery slope between freedom of expression and art, uh, because then who sit as judge and jury now, obviously there are some indie games that can't be regulated that can be pretty good like Kindergarten Killers, but those are indie games not made by people within the industry and there are some games that have been in the industry that deserve all the criticism they receive. receive and even players can attest to this, for example, the infamous Atari porn game custers Revenge, a game that is no joke about having sex with a Native American woman tied to a pole or traveling to hell, portraying you having sex with a woman in the same room you murdered the people who apparently held her captive and it's just shitty gameplay in general or something like Chiller that would have been available to play in a public arcade for anyone, a game that featured torture graphics and, as I said, Mortal Kombat was criticized by the media and other outlets and became the catalyst that led to the creation of the ESRB, a company that should exist because there needs to be some type of regulation, but such As with alcohol in the Prohibition era, too many restrictions and regulations invariably lead to problems.

Almost all negative reports about Grand Theft Auto do not mention any kind of positivity within the game. What if the story provides valuable information about problems in the game? real world? What if players learn more about a particular culture? What if they made some friends? When playing the game, of course, they wouldn't mention that number one because it doesn't make for a juicy dramatic story and second, it doesn't fit their agenda. GTA and all its incarnations have certainly become the poster child for many of these news stories. websites and organizations to set up a platform and condemn and they do it as if Grand Theft Auto represents the players in the industry as a whole.

What made Grand Theft Auto 3 the series' first big hit so memorable wasn't the fact that you could go around beating people with baseball bats or shooting them in the back of the head with guns, but the fact that it was an open world. in 3D where you could do whatever you wanted at any time, find your own way to have fun and the characters were so deep and so interesting in recent years playing violent video games has been portrayed as a cause of mental instability a cause of mass shootings crimes violent, you name it, people have even compared it to drug and substance abuse, they say the connection between gaming violence and aggression is as strong as the medical association between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.

Well, we don't let our kids drink beer or smoke cigarettes and it's very hard to stop and then once you start, it's hard to stop, yeah. It's the crack. I have now not physically ingested any of my N64 cartridges or game CDs. I imagine it's not recommended, but are you seriously suggesting that drug use is as dangerous to the mind as playing violent video games? They are comparing a physical substance that alters the chemical composition of your body to a medium of visual, interactive entertainment. I think this goes without saying but to be fair it is stupid to do anything for too long it can be bad for the body and mind but I wonder how many cigarettes, alcohol and drug related deaths and crimes are there compared to deaths and crimes related to video games how many people are admitted to a rehab center for video games compared to narcotics Alcohol and other drugs I don't need to mention the statistics, we all know the answer, there is also the idea that violent games and The media desensitizes us to real violence and that may be the case, but I think we can all agree that our societies are not as bloodthirsty as they were in the past.

I'm talking about World War II, the Roman coliseums, the Endless Crusades. examples of human brutality that far surpass anything we have today, the idea that violent media desensitizes us isn't really surprising considering it's part of what makes us human, it's part of our history and that history is taught to children, adolescents and adults around the world. The world's children's books are full of bloody violence in Grim's fairy tales, said Hansel and Gredle bake their capter in an oven. High school reading lists, he said, contain violence, from Homer, Dante and Virgil to the savage murder of one of the maroon boys in The Lord of The Flies Fox News even linked these Mass Mur killers through the common trend of everyone playing video games, but too often the media focuses on factors less important than that young man who locked himself in a basement and played video games. hour after hour after hour watching you know and simulating murder hour after hour after hour after hour it didn't desensitize him wait how long was he locked in his basement hour after hour after hour after hour after hour hour after hour and he's been locked in his room playing violent video games for the last few years and has no human competencies, geez, maybe the fact that the guy went years without contacting another human being was a bigger factor than the fact that he played violent games.

Isolation can do terrible things to the mind. crazy isolation can do that to the mind, but I mean, I guess the biggest cause of these types of situations is the shooter. I mean, there's already news reports coming out that he was probably a schizophrenic father and so on, and they're looking at whether or not video games contribute to that, it really seems to be looking at maybe the smallest effect here. In fact, it would be more unusual to find one of these shooters if they didn't play video games, so you would actually find that they play violent ones. video games is not particularly surprising considering that if you take a random sample of men, most of them will report playing violent video games, perhaps it would be a better use of our time to analyze this person's medical and criminal history and find answers. out there maybe Dylan Cold and Eric Harris shot Coline because they were bullied because they hated school maybe they were prescribed drugs that negatively affected their minds or how easy it was for them to get the guns maybe it was just the perfect storm of so many factors and not just one that is the root cause of any tragedy, it doesn't matter how many psychological case studies are done on these people because the bottom line is that it takes a very disturbed and disconnected mind to carry out this type of atrocity.

I think the important question is not what role video games played in this shooting; the important question is what role did the media play in this shooting, because they would love to make you believe that they are just reporting the facts of these shootings, these murders that they are doing their journalistic duty, but why then do we have and need coverage so extensive of every detail of the lives of these murderers and we broadcast them hour after hour after hour? It is a form of glamorous publicity and infamy that these psychopaths seek and the media gives it to them.

Why does the media give the names and faces of the perpetrators much more often than those of the victims because it makes for a better story? I would argue that the media's effect on mass shootings is much greater than all Violent video games had 20 years of mass murders, during which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media that if notyou want to propagate more mass murders, don't start the story with blaring sirens, don't have pictures of the killer. Don't make this 247 coverage go out of its way to keep dead bodies from telling the main story.

Localize this story for the affected community and make it as boring as possible in all other markets because every time we get intense saturation coverage of a mass murder. We hope to see one or two more within a week. I'm not a crime or psychology expert, but I believe that most violent crimes are carried out because the person in question is in desperate need and wants attention, is in their head, or is really angry. One thing I say is to leave the details to the investigators and focus more on the victims, giving them the support and care they need to move forward with their lives.

If these media outlets claim to be doing the right thing in what they cover, they should be helping investigators. victims and giving little or no information about the perpetrator, so at this point we are going to talk about real statistics, real studies and open up the scientific truth of the matter. In my research, many scientists and psychologists believe in the correlation between violent video games and mass. shootings and many others don't believe in it, many reports found or suggested a link between playing these games and aggressive behavior, which I think is a fact for almost any type of game.

I mean, almost everyone will get irritated or frustrated when they land on Boardwalk, this latest study says that no quote has been found that aggressive thoughts and actions do not come from violent content in games, but that being bad at playing difficult games results to aggression in the real world, perhaps if you are predisposed to aggressive behavior, You are theoretically interested in violent video games because it speaks to your aggressiveness, yes, and as the old saying goes, guns don't kill people. I'm late on what this means. I'm sure everyone who has ever played an online game has come across it. lag glitches, rubber band hackers or any number of frustrating elements and naturally those things will make you frustrated which could lead to aggression but aggressive behavior isn't inherently bad when I play Mario Party you can bet Your ass, I'm going to get aggressive. and go for the star even so, correlation is not causation and just because something triggers aggressive behavior doesn't automatically mean it also triggers violence in real life.

Now I originally planned to list numerous sources that would confirm what I'm saying here, except this video. It's been going on for quite some time and I think it's time to wrap up what it all boils down to: violent crime is down, juvenile arrests are down, and video game sales, including Vi's, have skyrocketed over the last 20 years. and that is the truth of the matter. I can't imagine what more studies we could have other than the fact that games are more popular and crime is down. In conclusion, all of these anti-gaming articles and reports have yet to demonstrate a correlation. between violent video games and violent real-world consequences this archaic view that violent video games cause violence in real life is mainly held by people who don't understand the medium, elderly out of touch politicians, reporters, people without credibility authority or experience and even snakes until science proves otherwise, most reasonable people and especially the players themselves will believe what scientific truth and reliable research say we should believe, unless they come up with some revolutionary new evidence that changes what they believe.

We think they should make these anti-player articles and reports. This 40-year war on video games should come to an end in the unpredictable future until the next big thing comes along that threatens the very fabric of society, as it always has. This video was sponsored by JP Fitness if you are interested in Practical. and scientific knowledge on how to keep your body healthy by exercising nutrition JP Fitness has an incredibly underrated YouTube channel and I highly recommend checking it out. The links will be in the description and on the screen. Leave your thoughts and opinions in the comments below.

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