How much do u think violent videogames?

Question

Are responsible for todays violent attacks on ppl, and any increase in crime.

I play a lot of video games. But i have never felt the urge to shoot, stab or robppl.

Crosswalking Frogger actually sounds good.

Answer 1

Let me tell you what the vikings used to do to the anglo-saxons: cut up the front of your body, break the rib cage, open it up, take your lungs out and spread them out like wings. Or, they'd cut you up at the back, break the rib cage, grab the lungs and just play with it for a while. Of course, there were so many more violence that the vikings subjected the locals to when they decided to move into the this island.
They didn't have televisions or computer games so where did they get these ideas from? The hard truth is that humans are basically sick and evil. This is not something you learn from a video game.

Answer 2

A fun look at video game influence from the Minneapolis Star Tribune:

What if there were video games like these?
Chris Miksanek
Copyright 2006 Star Tribune

If the recent violence we've seen in crowds awaiting the release of the newest video game consoles is the consequence of a generation of game play, then, perhaps it's time for more positive influences. Here are some refinements on popular titles that might make help this world -- as opposed to, say, ice planet Hoth -- a better place:

• Sensible-Eating Pac-Man. Eat every other dot. Fruit bonuses are replaced with vegetables. Extra cardio points for taking the long way around the maze to burn calories.

• Tony Hawk's Lawn Mowing. Kids express their athletic prowess not by executing a sweet "ollie" over seniors out for a stroll, but by navigating a manual push-mower around the yard gnomes, pink flamingos and lost uppers of an elderly neighbor.

• 501(c)(3) Tycoon. Sim-type entertainment that teaches kids how to develop a successful nonprofit organization. How well they do ultimately depends on the delicate balance between bankrolling grant writers and schmoozing donors vs. actually providing social services. Advanced levels challenge them to create PACs and qualify as a 527 group for broader influence.

• Crosswalking Frogger. Cross the street only at the intersection. Use a personal flotation device when near the log-filled river for 4x bonus.

• Bland Theft Auto: Mayberry. With Barney in a fast and furious 15-mile-per-hour pursuit, Goober must get Helen Crump's Pontiac from Wally's Filling Station to Andy's house without soiling its fine birthday car wash. Learn swell lessons and earn points towards unlocking the Mount Pilot level by respecting all traffic controls and completing tasks like: beeping the horn in front of Floyd's Barber Shop precisely when he looks up from his newspaper, stopping to help Aunt Bee with the groceries and agreeing to be Otis' AA sponsor.

Answer 3

I do not think it is a cop out or an excuse, when it comes to "some" people...Most of us have common sense, and are "relatively" normal, BUT there are those who just don't have all the pistons firing in their brain right!!! People with unforeseen, undiagnosed mental and/or emotional problems can be very effected/influenced by any forms of violence in the mass media. Games, movies, Television, music etc. The suggestions and actions could easily influence people with mental issues. Like the kids who go to school and shoot up their class mates. The person who sees how to brutally kill someone. Those people lose touch with reality and/or have no conscience, no ability to reason from the get go, it's just gone unnoticed or ignored. You take a group of first graders, and show a movie that is "bang bang, shoot em' up stuff" and I guarantee you'll have some of the boys reenacting their version of it, using their fingers or sticks and such, as guns!!! I guarantee it.....So Yes, to me, for SOME people, they can very easily be influenced into some form of violent behavior!!

Answer 4

There is evidence coming to light that it's the 'News' broadcasts that are normalizing violent behaviour. People are able to distinguish between good and bad behaviour. However, when the 'News' endlessly presents bad events and actions as normal, even acceptable, then those still developing their understanding of the world see those activities as normal; possibly even required. It is the mass 'news' media that is destroying society! Stop watching/reading it. It's all bad and untrue anyway.

Answer 5

I suppose violent movies and video games, even the nightly news, can desensitize people to violence, but the ultimate act of violence rests solely with the person who does it. I think using violent video games as an excuse for violence is a way for the media/politicians/whoever to put the blame on someone other than the criminal.

Answer 6

I think far less than something as graphic as SAW 4, okay video games are interactive but films can be engrossing for the easily lead.
It's down to the person, someone who puts down a controller and marches out to hurt someone has something wrong with them, as much as someone who puts down a book and decides what they read should be tested in the real world

Answer 7

It contributes to desensitization of the mind, along with graphic violence pervasive in movies and television. Most people won't act out on their impulses, but there are a small number on the edge who will and the influence on them of this violence is magnified by the exposure to violent imagery.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

It's the modern day equivalent replacing "The Devil made me do it." An excuse used by people to expain the motivation for their actions.

Answer 10

65%

But keep in mind i think that the idiots that do these attacks w. do them anyway/they don't need a reason, or a trigger (they'd find it!).

It's just a trait that many happen to also like violent gamaes (violence period!)!