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Originally Posted by Xx{Midnight}xX
The factors leading people to do such things are endless. I wouldn't say that people can't think for themselves if they think video games are the cause.
Let's face it, they certainly contribute.
But to leave it to just video games is horse shit and mindless.
Here's why:
In America especially, we are shown violent images every day. And it's considered "fine". In our American media, a naked human form is worse than murdering a person by forcing their body to inhabit battery acid till they dissolve and die. Movies are rated R for the sexuality more times than the violence.
Someone else, who I can't be bothered to quote, said that we all subconsciously like violence, and I'm forced to agree with that statement. I enjoy watching movies or anime even where there are violent scenes.
Now I'm not saying it's a reason for us to go shoot up schools. Please don't take that the wrong way. These people sicken me. Especially when it's children who have no idea that they're alive yet.
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I sincerely doubt they contribute all that much. No studies support that claim, and the ones that do have been found problematic. Even SCOTUS has made it pretty clear:
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/08-1448.pdf
[Ambiguous proof will not suffice. The State’s evidence is not compelling. California relies primarily on the research of Dr. Craig Anderson and a few other research psychologists whose studies purport to show a connection between exposure to violent video games and harmful effects on children.
These studies have been rejected by every court to consider them, and with good reason: They do not prove that violent video games cause minors to act aggressively (which would at least be a beginning). Instead, “[n]early all of the research is based on correlation, not evidence of causation, and most of the studies suffer from significant, admitted flaws in methodology.”
They show at best some correlation between exposure to violent entertainment and minuscule real-world effects, such as children’s feeling more aggressive or making louder noises in the few minutes after playing a violent game than after playing a nonviolent game.
Even taking for granted Dr. Anderson’s conclusions that violent video games produce some effect on children’s feelings of aggression, those effects are both small and indistinguishable from effects produced by other media. In his testimony in a similar lawsuit, Dr. Anderson admitted that the “effect sizes” of children’s exposure to violent video games are “about the same” as that produced by their exposure to violence on television. And he admits that the same effects have been found when children watch cartoons starring Bugs Bunny or the Road Runner, or when they play video games like Sonic the Hedgehog that are rated “E” (appropriate for all ages), or even when they "view a picture of a gun."]