Do video games cause violence?

I don't think so

maybe people who beliave what they see

Wow I would love to have an essay on video games

I dont think it causes violence. If anything, it should decrease it. Instead of beating up people or shooting people in real life, they can do that in video games. Only dumbasses do something stupid.

Yes they do.

I've murdered twenty two people whilst wounding sixteen other and a crocodile.

Only got community service though.

A better essay would be 'The History of Scapegoat-ism'.

A violent environment will contribute to violent behavior not video games or any other form of media containing violence. I think playing violent games makes you less violent, it's seeing for example a child's father beating up the mother while they watch in real time that leads to violent behavior.

[quote name='emigre' post='2275653' date='Sep 24 2009, 12:24 PM']Yes they do.

I've murdered twenty two people whilst wounding sixteen other and a crocodile.

Only got community service though.[/quote]

PLEASE say that's sarcasm... I put the address for this post in my essay as a reference to prove gamers AREN'T murderous psychopaths...

I was hoping to get responses I could use in my essay without making the gaming community (and, in turn, GBATemp) look bad...

After playing GTA I proceeded to pick up a prostitute. I then drove into a fairly deserted part of town before having sex with her, I then murdered her in order to get my money back.

[quote name='Law' post='2276082' date='Sep 24 2009, 03:44 PM']After playing GTA I proceeded to pick up a prostitute. I then drove into a fairly deserted part of town before having sex with her, I then murdered her in order to get my money back.[/quote]

Did you not read the comment above you

Video games DON'T cause violence. They're just a scapegoat for incompetent parents. When a kid goes and kills another kid, they don't want to say it's the parents' faults or the community's fault, they want to pawn it onto something that doesn't exactly have a whole lot of say.

Really, do you ever get the need to drive around stealing cars, picking up hookers, and knocking off gangbangers because you played GTA once? No.

This was a whole issue with Columbine. Some people said that Doom was the cause for their rage and anger, since it was referenced to a few times in their journals, but in reality the kids were fucking loonies. Anyone who rights about Nazis and survival of the fittest and then plucks off innocent kids doesn't do that because they blew up a few space goblins, they do it because they're out of their mind. In fact, the two shooters in Columbine weren't even "the fittest", the only advantage they had was artificial (guns), not natural (physical superiority).

If you want a good essay on this, reference the Columbine shootings and a case involving Manhunt (it's on Manhunt's Wikipedia article). Just my advice.

THANK YOU Guild! After emigre and Law, that is EXACTLY the kind of response I've been looking for for my essay!

Video games are as much likely to cause violence as any other form of media. When you see crap like 'kid is buried alive; believed he was a superhero' then that problem is on the parents' end.

ONLY WAR AND KILLING GAMES DO. My brother was Semi-Half-Nice then he played the Warhawk Demo, and got really angry, makes fun of me cuse he's bored, I Make fun of him, And he has this HUGE psycho melt-down like i threw his Ps3 out the window!

Id say they cause people to wish they could just pull out their 9 and pop a cap in the 5-0s ass. However the people that are not stable do manage to have their wishes come true, everyone else can hold off the temptation of being able to get a new gun and a billie club after that officer lands on the ground.

Latching on to what Guild said, people have always used some form of media as a scapegoat. Heck, people used to be concerned that violent books would cause all the ills now ascribed to video games.

[quote name='mysticwaterfall' post='2276165' date='Sep 24 2009, 09:21 PM']Latching on to what Guild said, people have always used some form of media as a scapegoat. Heck, people used to be concerned that violent books would cause all the ills now ascribed to video games.[/quote]
And who can forget the 'Video Nasty' of the eighties?

even Buddhist say No

http://techdirt.com/articles/20090922/0328396274.shtml

[quote name='dewback' post='2276187' date='Sep 24 2009, 04:30 PM']even Buddhist say No

http://techdirt.com/articles/20090922/0328396274.shtml[/quote]

wow... I never would have seen that coming...

Thanks for the link, it may go in my essay!

When an idiot parents child commits some murdering act parent like to blame it on videogames. It's easy for them to blame it on a game and ignore their bad parenting. Video games do not cause violence but rather it causes people to blame it. Just like videos and books in the past. Most people immediately assume that just because a videogame has violence in it, it causes you to become a serial killer. In my opinion I think videogames help prevent violence then create violence. Videogames help relieve stress as numerous studies have said and stress can lead to chaos. These people expect us all to go home and play Imagine: NonViolent Videogames on our Nintendo DS. The fact that they are so reliant to blame numerous other things is shocking. Their stupidity is blinding them from the truth.

I just got back from abusing children and beating up prostitutes because watching lolis in IDOLM@STER and playing GTA wasn't enough.