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"Do Video Games Affect People?"

Doing this for an essay for school.
If anyone else is, we should pool our findings.
So far Ive found:
[URL]http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp784772.html[/URL]
[URL]http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf2001/papers/goldstein.html[/URL]
[URL]http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/q22000/gee2000425001281.htm[/URL]

Can't find much about them not affecting people. Can anyone help?

Thanks

yes vidio games do effect people to the extent that they desensitise people to bad language and maybe even violance but if you follow that argument and blame games for the current state of our society then you have to go back allot further than grandtheft auto

tom and jerry for instance showed several generations of childeren the most hidiouse violance

punch and judy shows before that entertaind kids at the sea side with a man hitting his wife with a stick

did whole generations of children grow up to be psycopaths and wife beaters

well yes they did as a matter of fact but tv violance had only a minimal impact on this (lets face it only a moron can thick it's ok to slaughter people with a cheesegrater because he saw it in a game)

no rather the reason for the decline in morality lies with our goverment taking away power from police , teachers and even parents

we must take responcibility for teachiung our kids right from wrong form an early age and we must make these teachings stick

Hmmm, I may be wrong with this, but, I think violence existed long before computer games. A wild thought I know, to think Humans are capable of barbaric acts to one another without playing Herdy Gerdy to put them in a blind rage in the first place is simply ridiculous.

If you want a serious answer, try asking a serious question. "Do games affect people" pfft, please.

remember people

games don't kill people

rappers do

Dr Cheese wrote:
> remember people
>
> games don't kill people
>
> rappers do

i prefer "guns dont kill people, rabbits do"

I mean its true isn't it. Only have to watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Lots of things can promote violence. Even magic tricks. A complete fool of a magician once did a trick with a knife infront of kids. All im gonna say is that one boy's sister was buryied with a knife wound through her head a little later on. Sometimes games can just be the easy answer for violence and stupidity etc.

Semajál wrote:
> Dr Cheese wrote:
> remember people
>
> games don't kill people
>
> rappers do
>
> i prefer "guns dont kill people, rabbits do"
>
> I mean its true isn't it. Only have to watch Monty Python and the
> Holy Grail.
i was trying to be funny


i failed

sorry

Dr Cheese wrote:
> remember people
>
> games don't kill people
>
> rappers do

Not wrong there, Dr Cheese.

Well, a while back I got Hitman 2. That really gets the mind working as a trainned killer. Not really what the parents want there kids thinking about, you know "how can I get past the guards on the front gate to pop a cap in that mafia bosses ass?" or "If I kill that pizza guy I can nick his uniform & get past the metal detector."

and have you shaved your head , had a barcode tattoo'd on your neck and started dealing death to people in return for cash yet then ?

Dr Cheese wrote:
> and have you shaved your head , had a barcode tattoo'd on your neck
> and started dealing death to people in return for cash yet then ?

i now enter a building and silently kill one person then sneak back out without getting caught, hitman was a great training game it really helped improve my skills as an assasin ;-)