are violent video games ruining the youth of tomorrow

[devonin]

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@Dragula: You'll notice that it varies by country, which content gets harsher ratings. In Canada, we are far less likely to rate a movie R for violence or language than in the United States. However, both countries are pretty strict on high ratings for sex. Conversely many R-rated movies in the United States are, in European countries rated for as young as 12-14 year olds.

[Go_Oilers_Go]

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Yeah, well that's Europe. It's of no importance to us what goes on there. <_<

[Baka05Carl]

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its what the kid does, its not the video games, if kids dont have responsibility enough to kno that doing all those violent things are bad, why make them play games.

[GuidoHunter]

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I blame parents more than I blame the games. I feel it is the parents fault for not putting up more responsibilty into disciplining the kids. Though todays media does contribute to turning kids into brats too. Not just video games, but movies and music too.

Don't be so quick to blame the parents.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[Intrastat]

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Bookmarking that page, Guido.

Dose of reality right there.

[callum111]

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http://www.esrb.org/index-js.jsp

Kids shouldn't be playing M-rated games. Simple as that.

It's the parent's fault if such a thing is true, but as Relam pointed out, video games, violent as they may be, keep kids from doing other things out of boredom. Like crime. As such, crime rates have plummeted since video games were released.

Well I heard my brother when he was like 3 he played doom. Thats like rated M.

[Squeek]

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Bookmarking that page, Guido.

Dose of reality right there.

Even if it's a "dose of reality", it's not the overarching truth.

Most parents are lazy and don't care about what game their kid wants, so long as they get it and shut up for a while.

This is totally unrelated to youth violence, though. This just shows the trace of responsibility to young children who play M-rated games.

Youth violence is usually related to issues at home.

[kratos7]

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hell no violent games are the healthiest games there are and if u disagree with me ILL KILL YOU.........jk

[ddr_f4n]

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Kratos, this is critical thinking, so post something meaningful.

On topic: Well, some kids (even adults) consider what happens in games happens in reality (like being shot 100 times and still live, and you recover over time) and those are the dumb people who just needs know the truth about violence and death. Those are the only people that are being affected by video games. Parents should realize this and use the ESRB ratings to avoid the youth from playing games like these. But this isn't the real reason why there are so much violence out there. Some are because of abusive families, or needs to kill to survive, and other reasonable explanations. The government needs to stop judging video games to get rid of them.

[macgravel]

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I played all kinds of violent video games when I was younger. Will I ever kill someone, want to rob someone or steal a car? Hell no. My parents actually raised me correctly and taught me at a young age to make correct choices in life. Some kids don't want to listen to their parents, or some parents don't want to tell their kids what's wrong and what isn't.

It takes a sick and twisted mind to do anything evil. If someone plans on doing anything evil in the first place, then video games won't affect that.

Violent games don't cause kids to kill people. That's my opinion.

[lord_carbo]

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1) You'd need to be mentally unstable to not be able to distinguish games from reality.
2) You'd need to be a violent or mentally unstable person to do something violent because you were influenced by video games in the first place.
3) Games don't teach you how to shoot a gun.
4) Games don't prepare you to shoot a person.

Crime has gone down ever since the PS1 hit the market rapidly (it actually was increasing slowly up to that year), and has been a record low in nearly 25 years. greekanilater, unless you live in England, you are wrong and I'd love to see some data to support what you said. (In England, the problem is gun control. Yes, the almost complete ban of guns spiked crime rates! And don't give me that cum hoc crap, if you even know what that is bwahaha.)

Oh, and violent crime would decrease even less by a huge amount if we decriminalized, hell, legalized drugs.



"So carbo, you're saying that drug legalization, gun rights and violent video games actually decrease violent crime?!"

"Yes."

"You're ****ing nuts."

[boondocks77]

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1) You'd need to be mentally unstable to not be able to distinguish games from reality.
2) You'd need to be a violent or mentally unstable person to do something violent because you were influenced by video games in the first place.
3) Games don't teach you how to shoot a gun.
4) Games don't prepare you to shoot a person.

Crime has gone down ever since the PS1 hit the market rapidly (it actually was increasing slowly up to that year), and has been a record low in nearly 25 years. greekanilater, unless you live in England, you are wrong and I'd love to see some data to support what you said. (In England, the problem is gun control. Yes, the almost complete ban of guns spiked crime rates! And don't give me that cum hoc crap, if you even know what that is bwahaha.)

Oh, and violent crime would decrease even less by a huge amount if we decriminalized, hell, legalized drugs.



"So carbo, you're saying that drug legalization, gun rights and violent video games actually decrease violent crime?!"

"Yes."

"You're ****ing nuts."

wut u said aobut being mentally unstable not to distinugish games from reality isnt necessarily true. I have a friend who saw the movie 300 and wants to kill ppl with a sword
and he wuz serious about doing it too im not even joking he isnt mentally unstable, hes in the high school honor roll for pete's sake

[Infinity^]

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Are violent video games ruining the youth of tomorrow? i think they are because violence has increased dramatically in the last 20 years

Your proof of statistics intrigues me.

[Squeek]

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wut u said aobut being mentally unstable not to distinugish games from reality isnt necessarily true. I have a friend who saw the movie 300 and wants to kill ppl with a sword
and he wuz serious about doing it too im not even joking he isnt mentally unstable, hes in the high school honor roll for pete's sake

Thinking it's cool and actually following through with it are two different things.

Besides, swords DO exist, and when you swing them hard at a person, you CAN sever limbs. That's perfectly realistic. I'm pretty certain he knows that doing it will cause the receiver to suffer immensely.

This is different from, say, a light-saber, which doesn't exist.

[boondocks77]

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Thinking it's cool and actually following through with it are two different things.

Besides, swords DO exist, and when you swing them hard at a person, you CAN sever limbs. That's perfectly realistic. I'm pretty certain he knows that doing it will cause the receiver to suffer immensely.

This is different from, say, a light-saber, which doesn't exist.

*cough* little confused here... r u agreeing or disagreeing with me?