Video Game Violence
Does the violence in video games really influence the violence in the youth?
According to humanillnesses.com, violence is the use of physical force to injure people or property. Influence is a person or thing with the capacity or power to have an effect on someone or something. According to videogames.procon.org, 60% of middle school boys and 40% of middle school girls who played at least one Mature-rated (M-rated) game hit or beat up someone, compared with 39% of boys and 14% of girls who did not play M-rated games.With that being said, many video games show violence such as Grand Theft Auto, Bully, Mortal Combat, and Call of Duty that influence the youth. These are only just a select few of games that cause violence, but there are much …show more content…
more. These such games cause violence in school, as well as outside of school. Violence in teens is influenced by video games due to their extensive time of being exposed to violence such as robbing, shooting, fighting, bullying, and aggression.
According to dartmouth research, teens who play mature- rated video games are more likely to engage in a wide range of behaviors beyond aggression, including alcohol use, smoking, and risking sex.
When teens play these m-rated video games the can be influenced into trying some of the thing they see or do on the video games.Game controllers are so sophisticated and the games are so realistic that simulating the violent acts enhances the learning of those violent behaviors. M-rated video games expose teens something that they should not mimic or get involved with. According to procon.org, Violent video games require active participation and identification with violent characters, which reinforces violent behavior. Young children are more likely to confuse fantasy violence with real world violence, and without a framework for ethical decision making, they may mimic the actions they see in violent video …show more content…
games.
One reason why teens may think it is okay for them to behave violently is because the violent video game rewards the player for the violent acts that they do. When violence is rewarded in video games, the player’s aggressive behavior is increased compared to players of video games where violence is punished. An analysis of 81 video games rated for teens ages 13 and up found that 73 games (90%) rewarded injuring other characters, and 56 games (69%) rewarded killing. People who played a video game that rewarded violence showed higher levels of aggressive behavior and aggressive cognition as compared with people who played a version of the same game that was competitive but either did not contain violence or punished violence.
The youth that is in school should not play M-Rated games because they can influence the youth into doing things such as bullying. Bullying is aggressive behavior among the youth that can really hurt or damage the person it is being bullied. The behavior is repeated and includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose. Games such as Grand Theft Auto could play a part on the influence of bullying in the youth. Grand Theft Auto lets the player do whatever they want and however they want. It can expose the player to behaviors such as aggression towards others that is unacceptable. The youth could take the behavior to school which may result in bullying behavior which will be a repetitive action. While playing these m-rated video games, a player might feel like since they can abuse people in a videogame without any consequences that they could just take that same attitude to the real world.
M-rated games can also influence teens to steal. In many m-rated free roam games, the game will have the player to do thing that are not legal or appropriate to do in the real world.
Some m-rated video games can influence a teen to steal things. Stealing things is something that teens should not get involved with. One thing that these games influence is the stealing of cars. Stealing cars is a big deal because it puts the teen in danger as well as other divers on the road. One could be seriously injured due to the fact that teens that are younger doesn't know what he/she is doing and that they are just doing it for fun and aren't seeing the downside of it. In the video games the player can't get hurt if they get into an accident. In a teens mind they probably think it's just like they video game and can't nothing happen to them but in reality they can have someone killed, maybe even themselves. In one case, a teen girl stole her mother’s car and went on a reckless drive around the neighborhood. She did not show any courtesy about anything as she was driving. She was driving on the wrong side of the road, running red lights, cutting people off, and driving of road. The teen could have really hurt herself and many other.
In several cases around the world, the influence of violent video games has took its course on a number teens. Many teens have played these violent video games and went to the real world thinking that they can copy the violent things they do on the video games. It has been mass shooting around the world where the suspects have been influenced by
violent video games.
One of the most horrific shooting in the history was influenced by violent video games. Many investigators say that Adam Lanza, the sandy hook shooter, played many violent video games to train himself. He admitted to using the game Modern Warfare 2 for training. He also played a violent video game before he went on his rampage and that game was “Combat Arms”. On the game, he obtained 83.000 kills with 22,000 of them being headshots to train himself for his massacre. With that being said , the violent video games that he has being playing had some type of impact on him. With playing these violent shooting games, he learned how to handle and shoot the guns. He also had many guns and weapons in his household which made it no better. At the end of his shootings he turned the gun on himself and took his own life.
The 1999 Columbine High School Massacre was another mass shooting that was influenced by violent video games. In 1999 two teens went in a shooting spree at the columbine high school. The two teens were bullied, often played violent video game, and listened to violent music.The teenage shooters of played violent combat games. Investigators believe that since they were bullied they took their anger out by playing these violent video games. Instead of repeatedly taking their anger out on the video games, they took it to the real world. By doing this they cause a great amount of damage to the people and the the environment.this could also tie back to how violent video games influence bullying. The kids that bullied the two teens were probably influenced by violent video games which made the teens that were bullied turn to violent video games to release their anger.
According to humanillnesses.com, violence is the use of physical force to injure people or property. Influence is a person or thing with the capacity or power to have an effect on someone or something. According to videogames.procon.org, 60% of middle school boys and 40% of middle school girls who played at least one Mature-rated (M-rated) game hit or beat up someone, compared with 39% of boys and 14% of girls who did not play M-rated games.With that being said, many video games show violence such as Grand Theft Auto, Bully, Mortal Combat, and Call of Duty that influence the youth. These are only just a select few of games that cause violence, but there are much …show more content…
more. These such games cause violence in school, as well as outside of school. Violence in teens is influenced by video games due to their extensive time of being exposed to violence such as robbing, shooting, fighting, bullying, and aggression.
According to dartmouth research, teens who play mature- rated video games are more likely to engage in a wide range of behaviors beyond aggression, including alcohol use, smoking, and risking sex.
When teens play these m-rated video games the can be influenced into trying some of the thing they see or do on the video games.Game controllers are so sophisticated and the games are so realistic that simulating the violent acts enhances the learning of those violent behaviors. M-rated video games expose teens something that they should not mimic or get involved with. According to procon.org, Violent video games require active participation and identification with violent characters, which reinforces violent behavior. Young children are more likely to confuse fantasy violence with real world violence, and without a framework for ethical decision making, they may mimic the actions they see in violent video …show more content…
games.
One reason why teens may think it is okay for them to behave violently is because the violent video game rewards the player for the violent acts that they do. When violence is rewarded in video games, the player’s aggressive behavior is increased compared to players of video games where violence is punished. An analysis of 81 video games rated for teens ages 13 and up found that 73 games (90%) rewarded injuring other characters, and 56 games (69%) rewarded killing. People who played a video game that rewarded violence showed higher levels of aggressive behavior and aggressive cognition as compared with people who played a version of the same game that was competitive but either did not contain violence or punished violence.
The youth that is in school should not play M-Rated games because they can influence the youth into doing things such as bullying. Bullying is aggressive behavior among the youth that can really hurt or damage the person it is being bullied. The behavior is repeated and includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose. Games such as Grand Theft Auto could play a part on the influence of bullying in the youth. Grand Theft Auto lets the player do whatever they want and however they want. It can expose the player to behaviors such as aggression towards others that is unacceptable. The youth could take the behavior to school which may result in bullying behavior which will be a repetitive action. While playing these m-rated video games, a player might feel like since they can abuse people in a videogame without any consequences that they could just take that same attitude to the real world.
M-rated games can also influence teens to steal. In many m-rated free roam games, the game will have the player to do thing that are not legal or appropriate to do in the real world.
Some m-rated video games can influence a teen to steal things. Stealing things is something that teens should not get involved with. One thing that these games influence is the stealing of cars. Stealing cars is a big deal because it puts the teen in danger as well as other divers on the road. One could be seriously injured due to the fact that teens that are younger doesn't know what he/she is doing and that they are just doing it for fun and aren't seeing the downside of it. In the video games the player can't get hurt if they get into an accident. In a teens mind they probably think it's just like they video game and can't nothing happen to them but in reality they can have someone killed, maybe even themselves. In one case, a teen girl stole her mother’s car and went on a reckless drive around the neighborhood. She did not show any courtesy about anything as she was driving. She was driving on the wrong side of the road, running red lights, cutting people off, and driving of road. The teen could have really hurt herself and many other.
In several cases around the world, the influence of violent video games has took its course on a number teens. Many teens have played these violent video games and went to the real world thinking that they can copy the violent things they do on the video games. It has been mass shooting around the world where the suspects have been influenced by
violent video games.
One of the most horrific shooting in the history was influenced by violent video games. Many investigators say that Adam Lanza, the sandy hook shooter, played many violent video games to train himself. He admitted to using the game Modern Warfare 2 for training. He also played a violent video game before he went on his rampage and that game was “Combat Arms”. On the game, he obtained 83.000 kills with 22,000 of them being headshots to train himself for his massacre. With that being said , the violent video games that he has being playing had some type of impact on him. With playing these violent shooting games, he learned how to handle and shoot the guns. He also had many guns and weapons in his household which made it no better. At the end of his shootings he turned the gun on himself and took his own life.
The 1999 Columbine High School Massacre was another mass shooting that was influenced by violent video games. In 1999 two teens went in a shooting spree at the columbine high school. The two teens were bullied, often played violent video game, and listened to violent music.The teenage shooters of played violent combat games. Investigators believe that since they were bullied they took their anger out by playing these violent video games. Instead of repeatedly taking their anger out on the video games, they took it to the real world. By doing this they cause a great amount of damage to the people and the the environment.this could also tie back to how violent video games influence bullying. The kids that bullied the two teens were probably influenced by violent video games which made the teens that were bullied turn to violent video games to release their anger.