video game argumentative essay
Christian Smoot
Mr. Nesbit
English 101
March 1, 2013
Argumentative Essay
In today’s economy, I believe that violent video games do promote violent and more aggressive behavior amongst our children. Parents need to step up and monitor what type of video games their kids are playing. You never know what type of effect the games can have on our children.
All kid isn’t typically influenced by violent video games but we don’t know how our kids’ minds are. I read an article on The Shooting at Columbine High School and it portrays how two young teen went on a killing rampage killing fifteen students, one teacher, and injured 21 students. It was said that the Columbine massacre was the most deadly mass murder committed on an American high school campus. Arguments then came up on how violent videos games may have influenced this shooting. Eric Harris, one of the two of the shooter was an “enthusiast of the Doom series” which was a violent shooting game. Harris had even quoted that “the killing was going to be just like the video game”. I’m not saying playing Doom was the sole reason he killed all those innocent people but it may have provoke their behavior a bit to do it.
Most kids who play violent video games don’t actually go out killing people but these games can promote more violent and aggressive behavior. Dr. Phil points out that “violent video games don’t teach kids moral consequences”. In most violent video games you can do anything from killing innocent people, blow up buildings, even steal cars but there’s never any consequences the character has to suffer. In some video games you actually get points for doing these violent activities. This can build more aggressive behaviors in our kids. At these young ages kid pick up off a lot of things and what they do in violent video games shouldn’t be what kids are spending their time doing. It also stated that “they do use more aggressive languages, they do use more aggressive images, they have less ability
Mr. Nesbit
English 101
March 1, 2013
Argumentative Essay
In today’s economy, I believe that violent video games do promote violent and more aggressive behavior amongst our children. Parents need to step up and monitor what type of video games their kids are playing. You never know what type of effect the games can have on our children.
All kid isn’t typically influenced by violent video games but we don’t know how our kids’ minds are. I read an article on The Shooting at Columbine High School and it portrays how two young teen went on a killing rampage killing fifteen students, one teacher, and injured 21 students. It was said that the Columbine massacre was the most deadly mass murder committed on an American high school campus. Arguments then came up on how violent videos games may have influenced this shooting. Eric Harris, one of the two of the shooter was an “enthusiast of the Doom series” which was a violent shooting game. Harris had even quoted that “the killing was going to be just like the video game”. I’m not saying playing Doom was the sole reason he killed all those innocent people but it may have provoke their behavior a bit to do it.
Most kids who play violent video games don’t actually go out killing people but these games can promote more violent and aggressive behavior. Dr. Phil points out that “violent video games don’t teach kids moral consequences”. In most violent video games you can do anything from killing innocent people, blow up buildings, even steal cars but there’s never any consequences the character has to suffer. In some video games you actually get points for doing these violent activities. This can build more aggressive behaviors in our kids. At these young ages kid pick up off a lot of things and what they do in violent video games shouldn’t be what kids are spending their time doing. It also stated that “they do use more aggressive languages, they do use more aggressive images, they have less ability
Cited: http://www.drphil.com/articles/print/ArticleID=297 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/science/studying-the-effects-of-playing-violent-video-games.html?_r=0