2007-05-03 02:16:54 · 21 answers · asked by Reserved 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Good question.... I hate it when I hear people blaming other things other then taken responsibility for their own actions.....
Smart, Intelligent people who were raised with quality parents can distinguish between reality and make believe.
Growing up when I was younger just like everyone else my age had video games, TV and movies with violence in them. UNLESS they are clinical mentally ill people know what is right and wrong. Video games as advanced as they are is no comparison to what the movies and real life can show us.... All the violence that is shown on the nightly news and movies may have desensitized ourselves, but that is not why people commit crimes... they do it for other reasons.
2007-05-03 02:45:59 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They can both be bad, but because kids are more prone to playing the video games, those are probably the worst of the two. Also, in video games, the player has the power to inflict the damage/violence on other characters. The child may grow to like this power and want to emulate it. My idea is, though, that the worst video games are games where the main character is the villain. Villains are disloyal, dishonest, murderous and just plain malevolent. I think you are what you play. If you think it's okay to blow up an innocent victim in a game, you may come to think it's not so bad in real life. It's a psychological thing. Definitely not good for kids.
2007-05-03 05:16:26 · answer #2 · answered by Raingirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The violence in movies/videos/games more worse than just watching the nightly news.
Although watching tv or crt screen is not good for eyes and sitting and playing or watching move is also not god for children as there is no physical work involved.
2007-05-03 18:52:30 · answer #3 · answered by Girish N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IMO the nightly news. Children are intelligent enough to understand that the violence in movies/videos/games is MAKE BELIEVE.
2007-05-03 20:32:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People always blame the rock music whenever there's a problem. But no one says anything about the murdering politicians.
I was raised on violent blood soaked video games and look at me now! Sane and normal. Kids know the difference between real violence and violence on computer games.
2007-05-03 02:32:15 · answer #5 · answered by RJ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Video game violence would be the most likely influence to pervert an impressional mind, because video games involve role playing: *the player* does the killing, over and over again. Frustration can increase aggression. I think adults can be influenced, temporarily, by playing violent games, so kids would be even moreso. It depends on the child.
Nightly news and scary movies can make sensitive kids feel helpless against evils that threaten them, but the extremely violent types of video games let them destroy fantasy beings.
2007-05-03 02:49:55 · answer #6 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The violence in movies/videos/games and what makes the nightly news! Parents need to better suppervise what their children watch and play.
2007-05-03 02:26:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
TV itself is bad. Kids' mind are clean slates which will absorb anything and everything that they view. In India kids education is parted with personal attention in olden days. When the child is passing through the early years their observation is very good. Violence and unwanted news are poison to the minds of kids.
2007-05-03 02:57:39 · answer #8 · answered by Brahmanyan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably the violence in video games, etc. More kids actually see that - how many of them actually watch the nightly news?
2007-05-03 02:20:21 · answer #9 · answered by Paul Hxyz 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Violence exists. Sheltering children does not make it go away.
US children often do not have a baseline from which to distinguish real violence from fake because they are so sheltered and live in such a violence free world.
2007-05-03 06:47:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋