Do you believe "violent" video games actually cause violent behavior?

Answer 1

what the FAUCK do YOU MEAN $hit head. Video games are not freakin' violent. That's a load of horse $hit. PEolpe pay to much mother Faucking attention to the games and not their stupid A$$ kids. Those little morons are loose mother fauking canons when its comes to playing video games. No dik head parent supervision if you ask me. No i don' think violent games cause violent behavior.

Answer 2

No, people were violent long before video games were invented. It's just lazy parents and opportunistic politicians cashing in on a few bad eggs.

The bible has incredible violence in it, and there was that woman who drowned all her kids because of some religious obsession, GASP we must ban the bible before anyone else gets hurt, WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?!?

Didn't that sound silly. I'm an atheist and I'd disagree with such a suggestion. Blaming crazy behavior on video games or bible passages is like blaming hailstones on the tiny specks of dust at their center. The dust didn't make the atmospheric conditions that caused water to crystallize around them. Video games, movies, books all those things are just specks around which a madness can crystallize, they aren't the source of madness. If someone is deranged eventually they'll find the right speck of dust to crystallize their craziness around, removing the obvious ones would just shift them to other motes.

Answer 3

It has been shown that a steady diet of violent video games desensitizes a small percentage of people toward violence. Especially younger people.
Unfortunately, only a small percentage is needed to significantly increase the amount of actual violence.
This small percentage will accept violence from themselves on to others as a method of conflict resolution because that is what they learned from the diet of video games they were playing while they were missing adult supervision to explain the other, more sociable, methods of conflict resolution.

There is not a court-submittable "direct cause", but there is significant statistical evidence of an indirect contribution.

Answer 4

I saw a comedy routine not too long ago. The comedian presented her case best when she said "Do violent video games perpetuate violence in real life? No. In fact it's the opposite. The only reason some of you bastards are still up and walking is because I get to do to digitally generated ***holes what I'd really like to do to some of you."

Answer 5

I play game too but it doesnt take effect for me to have a violent behavior. Gaming is fun. Maybe in some cases, I guess so, But it depends to humans behavior how they will react, interact for what they see. A Phychopath will do something like that!

Answer 6

I don't think so unless someone already has an underlying psychopathology. That said, I don't believe that every game is appropriate for every age, or that you should spend your whole life in front of the game console or on the Internet. People need a real life, not just a virtual life.

Answer 7

I truly believe that they do. The reason being is because every thing that you see your mind makes a mental picture of and what you hear believe it or not has some type of effect on you, some times you hear something and if you hear it enough shortly thereafter you'll wind up unconsciously singing or humming the tune. Especially for younger children because they tend to become professional imitators.

Answer 8

Yes. It can cause &/or perpetuate it. Sadly, there are very few non-violent; equally advertised, pushed, sold video games to counter balance the negatives.

Answer 9

nope, that's a load of crap....parents and other people just want to have someone to blame, everyone is capable of violent acts...its just that a lot of people don't get pushed over the edge....if anything is to blame it would probably be bullying, whether in schools or the workplace or elsewhere....

if you want to blame anything in the spotlight then blame the news stations, all the do is report negative and depressing crap about wars and people being killed, they hardly ever report positive things.

Answer 10

In some, possibly few, possibly many, absolutely yes and this has been confirmed by studies and real life tragedies. Watch the news! You'll see the proof...