Do Video Games Cause People To Kill
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While many murderers have played violent video games, people can not blame the actions of those murderers on video games because people do not have enough evidence to prove that video games cause people to kill. Scientists never seem to factor in social rejection, feelings of alienation or depression into their studies and reporters always seem to focus on whether or not the culprit played video games instead of focusing on the problems the culprit may have mentally. In her article, “Do Video Games Kill”, Karen Sternheimer says that media tries to decontextualize violence and that poverty, rough neighborhoods and family violence are not included in research often. A lot of times, mental illness is overlooked too (Sternheimer 3). This …show more content…
Breivik testified that a video game had given him the idea to use a specific scope on his weapon and the idea to make a bomb, which of course made many people blame video games for the death of their family members. The only connection between video games and Breivik’s mass murder is a scope and an idea to make a bomb. In her book, How Does Video Game Violence Affect Society?, Patricia Netzley that, “He had also been involved in anti-tax, anti-immigrant, and anti-Muslim activism, and he had been planning terrorist attacks for months. Clearly, then, Breivik’s violent acts were based on his political beliefs”(29). This statements proves that video games can …show more content…
After someone plays a video game, they do not continue to kill people because first of all; they know it was just a game, and second of all; their conscious tells them not to continue to kill people. Ed del Castillo, co-founder of Liquid Entertainment in Pasadena, along with other game inventors, believes that just because someone brutally murders someone in a virtual state does not mean they would do it in real life. There are people who do kill outside of video games, but humans can not base video game violence off of what a few people with major mental disorders would do. According to Karen Sternheimer, nine out of ten people who play first person shooter games kill people straight up on a screen, but less than one out of ten actually do it in real life. This means that more than eight out of ten people who play video games hardly even think about killing someone in real life. In fact, a lot of people think that video games have a positive effect on
While many murderers have played violent video games, people can not blame the actions of those murderers on video games because people do not have enough evidence to prove that video games cause people to kill. Scientists never seem to factor in social rejection, feelings of alienation or depression into their studies and reporters always seem to focus on whether or not the culprit played video games instead of focusing on the problems the culprit may have mentally. In her article, “Do Video Games Kill”, Karen Sternheimer says that media tries to decontextualize violence and that poverty, rough neighborhoods and family violence are not included in research often. A lot of times, mental illness is overlooked too (Sternheimer 3). This …show more content…
Breivik testified that a video game had given him the idea to use a specific scope on his weapon and the idea to make a bomb, which of course made many people blame video games for the death of their family members. The only connection between video games and Breivik’s mass murder is a scope and an idea to make a bomb. In her book, How Does Video Game Violence Affect Society?, Patricia Netzley that, “He had also been involved in anti-tax, anti-immigrant, and anti-Muslim activism, and he had been planning terrorist attacks for months. Clearly, then, Breivik’s violent acts were based on his political beliefs”(29). This statements proves that video games can …show more content…
After someone plays a video game, they do not continue to kill people because first of all; they know it was just a game, and second of all; their conscious tells them not to continue to kill people. Ed del Castillo, co-founder of Liquid Entertainment in Pasadena, along with other game inventors, believes that just because someone brutally murders someone in a virtual state does not mean they would do it in real life. There are people who do kill outside of video games, but humans can not base video game violence off of what a few people with major mental disorders would do. According to Karen Sternheimer, nine out of ten people who play first person shooter games kill people straight up on a screen, but less than one out of ten actually do it in real life. This means that more than eight out of ten people who play video games hardly even think about killing someone in real life. In fact, a lot of people think that video games have a positive effect on