Violent games are more fun than disturbing. I can't say I've been negatively influenced from them because I haven't. If anything they are a positive thing which releases anger from children. I'd rather have them kill a few cops in a game than to punch up another kid in real life. If you do something aggressive because it looked fun in a video game you are one sick fk and that's probably a 0.001% of all people who play those kinds of games.

I believe that violent video games are just that, games. I just don't understand why people say that they ruin children's minds and are the cause of all these problems in society.

I can testify as evidence that I am a perfectly functioning adolescent who has no increased aggression from playing violent video games since I was five. If anything they made me a better person.

It said look kid, if you go steal that car and start running over cops eventually you're going to get six stars and the national guards going to blow you up with a tank.

Nothing that I can think of puts that message across better than violent video games.

I fear censorship of video games a lot more than I fear the games themselves.

Whenever new media gains popularity with youth, we hear how comic books/film/rock&roll;/television/rap/and now, video games are responsible for moral decline.

History suggests that video games are just the latest scapegoat, and no psychology study (that I am aware of) has been able to show a causal relationship between video games and violence in the real world.

Why are we so ready to fear the youth? That's what this misdirected issue is all about, really. If you are looking for moral decline, try starting at the top, not the bottom.

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Video games, like mentioned, are just games and nothing more. They are neither evil, nor good. The "people" you "kill" on these games are nothing but polygons put together to form something that resembles a human (or orc, dragon...etc). Reality is much, much different, and just about everyone understands that already. I still feel sick to my stomach when I see a huge accident or a bloody scene somewhere in the real world, but I have no trouble playing the goriest games on the market because of the fact that it is not real, and it does not affect me. Parents say that violent media "desensitizes" us to real life violence, but this is obviously not true.

No one thinks that they are bad? Are you kidding me? I think that for most people they are not that problematic, but for an impressionable kid they really can be. Plus, I think that they add to the desensitization we have with violence and thus we find it more acceptable in our society.