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They do to an extent after all it is only a game. I numbs someone as far as there visual perception.
But depending on how graphic the game (and other factors on a kid as they grow up) That ultimately
determines their sensitivity to violence.
But that is nearly as relative as people's pain perceptions... |
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They are fun, but violent. |
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I believe that these games incite violence, desensitize people to violence and makes people
generally accept violence in a way that they shouldn't. I believe children are particularly at risk
because it makes violence acceptable and they learn this as part of their childhood development.
I'm suggesting that some people do have the sense to know right from wrong. But a game in which you
play a crazy psychopath killing people for fun is just wrong. As children boys play games, we
played war or something like that. War is a game where both sides kill each other, but both sides
do this because that's the state of war. When we transfer that 'playing at soldiers' to computer
games we take a more active role, and the killing becomes more real. However, this is still within a
certain 'frame', the frame of playing at soldiers. I would be far more concerned if people started
'playing ay psychopaths' and yet, through this type of video/console games, people are doing
exactly that.
The makers of Manhunt are actually being sued by the parent of a dead schoolboy because his murdered
regularly played this game. Getting used to the idea of murdering for fun through a game is a form
of indoctrination, a form of practice for the real world and inside the mind of a young person,
these things become all too real.
I'm not sure why producers need to make this type of game. What kind of sick individual wants a
game in which they get to mindlessly murder. Does it let out some kind of tension, does it allow one
to feel the power that one doesn't have in ones life.
I really don't get Saints Row, I'm proud that I don't roam the streets, stealing cars, killing
strangers, beating women, selling drugs, but this game actively promotes this as something to do in
order to achieve something. When achievement is based on doing wrong, surely we are socially
indoctrinating our children to behave wrongly.
Don't the games producers have a responsibility to society. They know that people will buy these
games, but with all the different games that they could make, why would they choose a game where
wholesale slaughter it the goal? It's simply irresponsible.
People say that it doesn't affect behaviour. But they also say that violence on television doesn't
cause violence in life. If that were true, if television didn't influence behaviour, why would
advertising cost millions on television. Let's face it, the television is used to sell us things, we
watch millions of adverts every year and are you trying to tell me that they aren't trying to affect
our behaviour, to influence what we do in the real world? They want us to buy their goods, why would
gaming not be any different?
Don't be so critical a friend told me, it's just a game, just a bit of fun. That simple explanation
is why these things are allowed to go ahead. But just because you can tell the difference can
everyone?
Further, has the television ever made you mad, sad or laugh? So the television and what happens on
it can influence our behaviour easily.
I believe that the licensing bodies have a responsibility not to allow games of mindless violence.
Just the context makes all the difference. Boxing games are sports, we see those and know the
difference, war games re-enact the spoils of war and therefore the context sets the idea of kill or
be killed. But the games mentioned above, they are aimed at people having fun by committing crimes,
murder and worse.
I believe that this type of game teaches violence and makes react less to violence that they see or
that they themselves used or consider using. If life is so cheap in a console game, how do we teach
people that it isn't cheap for real? |
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This is an absolutely ridiculous statement! These games to not incite viloence by any means. They
are works of art and design and should be seen just as though a film should. They are just
elaborative and creative works of the mind given to us by the developers. They are harmless. |
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MESSAGE TO PARENTS: PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR CHILD! STOP BLAMING YOUR POOR PARENTING SKILLS ON VIDEO
GAMES! Talk to your kids, get to know them, try to understand them. If you try to force them to do
what you want or try to shelter them, they'll just go behind your back and do it. Stop expecting
good morals from video games. |
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Ill agree that it probably does teach violence but come on now it is a freaking video game. It was
not intended to be taken seriously and those who do are just ignorant. If your worried about video
games being violent what about airsoft guns and paintball guns and even plastic toy guns. That
promotes violence. Even before these things were around kids would pick up sticks and act like they
were guns or swords. Violence is such a common thing today and was decades ago. Violence has been
around since the beginning of life and we cant change that. Even if kids never played a video game
or got toy guns they would still act violent in different ways. No matter how much you shelter them
from it it will reach them eventually. |
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Of course they incite violence...if they didn't why would most of them have certificate 15+??
And to be honest people would buy them if they didn't have violence. Its not like every person who
owns the game is running round shooting random people is it? |
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What are you talking about? |
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Hey idiots that why these games are rated mature and (i'm 17 by the way legal age to play not buy)
well parents should read labels |
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Not really. Only those stupid people imitate those games |
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These games to me have almost no plot to them and are above all, boring. All you do is blow stuff
up. Anyone who likes games like this should get checked by a shrink |
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This is a tough one for me because I think that games like Saints Row (I have it) may make people a
little less alarmed by violence, but they certainly, I think, DON"T cause normal people to have
spontaneous fits of violence, as some people would have us think. |
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Basically violence is one such situation of our day to day life that arises from various thoughts
and negative incidents and not from any games. These games though involve many things like murder,
assassination, strategies, planning, fighting and many other things but these are only meant for
entertainment purpose and to give excitement in the mind of the player. It has got nothing to do the
violence of real life. But if anybody has got addicted to violence after playing these games then it
is a must say for that person that he or she is going through some major mental problems and that
they need serious care and attention. A virtual game can never incite or induce somebody to take up
to violence. It is an extremely personal issue if somebody has got affected with violence and a game
can never be blamed for the same. |
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Games that incite violence are not meant for little kids. You have to be a certain age to buy
certain games. It is the parents responsibility to make sure what is in the house, is appropriate
for their children. You cant blame video game companies for parents lack of attention of what their
purchasing their kids. |
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21 Dec 2007 16:59
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