Analysis Of Violent Video Games Promote Anti-Social Behavior

In his essay ‘‘violent video games promote anti-social behaviour’’, Jack Flanagan, a science and technology journalist, discussed that video games are causing violence to whom who are addicted to it. He claims that people who tend to play video games are more likely to be aggressive compared to those who play ‘‘nice games’’. Gamers who are really involved in these aggressive games lose their empathy and feelings. These games promote somehow a kind of antisocial behaviour, for example drug use and poor romantic relationships. Flanagan supported this pervious statement by giving two examples of different experiments that compare the reaction for those who play aggressive video games vs others who play nice games. The results was similar to what he has mentioned, that these aggressive games promote lack of empathy and anti-social Behaviour. Another point that Flanagan pointed out that gamers tend to act like game characters or avatars in the reality. This act which could lead to negative behaviour attitude.
In his essay ‘‘Violent
Poor mental health care and low salaries are two common problems that people face today. ‘‘Therefore, public policy and research must focus on other possible causes of Gun violence, such as poor mental health care and access to firearms, in addition to violent video games.’’ (Kain, Page 1) If we noticed the violence acts that is occurring these days, it’s mainly about political issues. When people are not treated well and lead by a bad government this could lead to serious violence acts, and that is what is happening nowadays in our world. We rarely hear about violence that is caused by violence video games. People who are arguing this are not looking at the big picture, they just blame video games. ‘‘In other words, violent video games are an easy thing to blame for a more complex problem’’ (Kain, Page 5) we should really take this major issues in consideration when we start talking about