Could todays children grow up to be more violent prone than now? Or...could it possibly have a diverse effect, making them a more calmer generation for they have video games to take out their anger?
2006-07-13 09:17:52 · 8 answers · asked by Kat 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I think that video games at least could in theory help reduce crime by letting people vent their frustrations out on a virtual world instead of the real one. This seems to be the case, as several studies have shown that most juvenile crims have reduced since games have caught on, thenagain, it could be that people are too occupied by games to go out and be violent.
2006-07-13 09:22:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not as big an effect as steroids in our food and milk. You want to make people more aggressive feed them more steroids.
As for violence seen, it has less of an effect as violence experienced. There is something about going through a fight that gives you confidence. Movies don't do that. Especially if you have ever lost a fight.
The choice is this sex or violence which do you want in your films? They used to focus on sex in the late 70s and early 80's. They shifted to violence in the Reagan years. Right now the country is on a comic book binge. Are you saying you want to go bak to sex? Or do you really think you can fill the seats of a theater with no more than dialogue?
I don't see it happening, not a $10 a ticket.
Todays kids may be more violent but it won't be because of movies or video games. It will be because the world is becoming more competitive. Wars are breaking out all over the world. That makes children into soldiers, and our boys will have to deal with those boys somewhere down the line.
2006-07-13 16:37:30 · answer #2 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I grew up watching the Viet Nam war on the nightly news, showing the wounded soldiers on stretchers and the bodies of the Viet Cong on the ground. The DMZs and the Agent Orange and Napalm damage. Believe me, the age of innocence was over. I think everything from morality to the family unit changed for us. At least those of us who grew up watching it. Looking back over the last thirty years, I don't think it made us calmer.
Video games don't necessarily make you calmer or else we would have written more of them. The just let you escape for a little while, then everything hits you in the face again. We got the same escape using drugs and alcohol. The problems never go away, you just ignore them for a while. We've learned that you have to resolve the problem before you can be calm about it. Running away never fixes anything. I hope they learn that sooner than we did.
2006-07-13 16:39:24 · answer #3 · answered by Carlton73 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Violence in games and on TV can have an effect on behavior, and not with just younger people. But the effect, I think, is relevant to their intelligence, values, environment they live in, financial position, genetics and peer pressures.
I think the possibility of more violence in the future is a sincere threat. I think one of the major causes will be the esculating knowledge of that we are dooming ourselves, anyway. This has a negative effect on our values as a whole and individually. We are becoming more separated as a "people" causing us to no longer appreciate each other, and in some cases have little value for life, even one's own.
I think this will be our downfall as humans, because we will end up destroying ourselves before our full potential is ever realized. Just the simple fact we only use about 10% of our brains is an indicator that we could be much more superior than any that have come before us, if we could wake up the other 90% laying dormant. Imagine what we would know and be capable of.
2006-07-13 16:37:43 · answer #4 · answered by jeffrey_meyer2000 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it already has, and will get worse. Violence teaches violence.
I like your question about video games. I recognize that playing any game can relieve stress, take out frustrations on the game instead of another person. But I do not think the game has to be violent to do that. For me, Bejeweled 2 and Zuma, for example, do just fine. I think since violence teaches violence, Moms and Dads could do a lot to prevent this. They can monitor the games, do not buy the sick violent ones, They can sit down and talk to the child, and make sure they understand that it is just a game, not reality, and talk to them about violence out in the world, how it is bad, and how not to be a violent person.
I worry about children and adults who take everything they see on TV as the real thing. They think what they see is the thing to do, and emulate everything they see. Some think the characters they see are real. Characters on TV lie, cheat, steal, curse, have gratuitous sex, make fun of their parents, do not mind them,murder, rape, and on and on. It might be good TV, but some people take it to be what they should be doing, it is on TV, it must be OK.
There was a show on TV, it was intellectually superior to most of the TV fair. It was never on th TV where I worked at a hospital with a lounge room. I asked around why the patients never
watched that show. The consensus was they did not understand it. So why do TV producers put all that shoot um up bang bang stuff on TV? Why do they put all the gratuitious sex on? Because we understand it. The dumbing down of America.
I recently read an article in which the author monitored her kid's cartoon watching. She said she would not allow her kids to watch any of the old Warner Brothers cartoons because of the violence. Has she seen some of the stuff today? Sure Bugs found some creative ways to shake off his nemisis, and Wile E. Coyote semmed to be on his way to the bottom of the canyon a lot, but has she seen some of the stuff today? Big guns and weapons. I doin't think it is any better.
Thank you for this question.
2006-07-13 16:54:47 · answer #5 · answered by riversconfluence 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would help to have parents rights given back to them.violence is a reaction caused by too much social change the children are not given time to grow up at a peace-full pace it's as though they are given some kind of miracle grow race and we are not designed that way.
2006-07-13 16:26:23 · answer #6 · answered by writer05 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on the parents education.
If you treat with love your children, they will grow up happy, then... they wont be violent
2006-07-13 16:21:12 · answer #7 · answered by Isadora 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think violence will grow more as there's no much space to let the steam out no more manual work to be done any more
2006-07-13 16:42:44 · answer #8 · answered by last 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋