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Many games like GTA have been banned from some countries who say they cause people to beat, kill, and just abuse other people.
But is it truly the games fault some people say that games are for amusement and people who think they are real or copy them are ill.
I thick that banning a game wont help, because there’s so many more things that influence violence like, music, tv, the internet all these things can cause people to act violent.
Games are there for amusement not to be taken seriously. I can’t believe that if someone plays a game and sees a burning man that there going to go out there and set a man on fire.
If some one is violent you can NOT turn around and blame it on a game, it was them selves who went through with the violence. Never in a single game does it say violence is good.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
But is it truly the games fault some people say that games are for amusement and people who think they are real or copy them are ill.
I thick that banning a game wont help, because there’s so many more things that influence violence like, music, tv, the internet all these things can cause people to act violent.
Games are there for amusement not to be taken seriously. I can’t believe that if someone plays a game and sees a burning man that there going to go out there and set a man on fire.
If some one is violent you can NOT turn around and blame it on a game, it was them selves who went through with the violence. Never in a single game does it say violence is good.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
If throwing my controller acros the room at the nearest wall is counted as violence, then yes they do.
groovymegee wrote:
> WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Games don't pull triggers, wield baseball bats, use knuckledusters nor do they put the boot in at football matches, joyride in other people's cars, break and enter or otherwise commit violent acts.
Only people do that.
Games are just one small part of a growing mass media that de-sensitise youngsters towards violence therefore making it easier to pull triggers, wield baseball bats etc., when they get older. And the only people who can prevent their children from becoming de-sensitised by all these horrific images are their parents or guardians.
This is a nightmare, because you can't watch your kids all the time, plus you have to balance things so that when your kids reach the age where they begin to discover what the world is really like it isn't too much of a shock for them.
So, on the one hand you've got a society where adults are constantly having to protect their children from horrific images on television, the internet, newspapers, films, videos, DVDs, games; and on the other hand you've got a society constantly finding new media forms in which to depict these horrific scenes and new ways to get these media forms into your home.
So do you blame society, or do you blame the parents when things go wrong?
Also, ask yourself this question? Why is it that the media feel the need to present these horrific images to us in the first place. Why is it that bad news makes the headlines, whereas good news doesn't? A natural human desire to be fascinated by the horrific, perhaps?
Until we lose some of these desires that have been part of our genetic makeup since pre-historic times, things aren't going to change much. Therein lies the problem.
> WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Games don't pull triggers, wield baseball bats, use knuckledusters nor do they put the boot in at football matches, joyride in other people's cars, break and enter or otherwise commit violent acts.
Only people do that.
Games are just one small part of a growing mass media that de-sensitise youngsters towards violence therefore making it easier to pull triggers, wield baseball bats etc., when they get older. And the only people who can prevent their children from becoming de-sensitised by all these horrific images are their parents or guardians.
This is a nightmare, because you can't watch your kids all the time, plus you have to balance things so that when your kids reach the age where they begin to discover what the world is really like it isn't too much of a shock for them.
So, on the one hand you've got a society where adults are constantly having to protect their children from horrific images on television, the internet, newspapers, films, videos, DVDs, games; and on the other hand you've got a society constantly finding new media forms in which to depict these horrific scenes and new ways to get these media forms into your home.
So do you blame society, or do you blame the parents when things go wrong?
Also, ask yourself this question? Why is it that the media feel the need to present these horrific images to us in the first place. Why is it that bad news makes the headlines, whereas good news doesn't? A natural human desire to be fascinated by the horrific, perhaps?
Until we lose some of these desires that have been part of our genetic makeup since pre-historic times, things aren't going to change much. Therein lies the problem.
i played eternal darkness and i appear to be fine... Bleaargh! *smiles*
slik ~_~
slik ~_~
I played super monkey ball once and rolled around for weeks afterwards.
Some games have the potential to make people act different.
Like GTA, for example. But this is only in the minds of weirdos, who think it's real.
That's my opinion in a nutshell. I might give you a more in-depth opinion later.
Like GTA, for example. But this is only in the minds of weirdos, who think it's real.
That's my opinion in a nutshell. I might give you a more in-depth opinion later.
Many games like GTA have been banned from some countries who say they cause people to beat, kill, and just abuse other people.
But is it truly the games fault some people say that games are for amusement and people who think they are real or copy them are ill.
I thick that banning a game wont help, because there’s so many more things that influence violence like, music, tv, the internet all these things can cause people to act violent.
Games are there for amusement not to be taken seriously. I can’t believe that if someone plays a game and sees a burning man that there going to go out there and set a man on fire.
If some one is violent you can NOT turn around and blame it on a game, it was them selves who went through with the violence. Never in a single game does it say violence is good.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
But is it truly the games fault some people say that games are for amusement and people who think they are real or copy them are ill.
I thick that banning a game wont help, because there’s so many more things that influence violence like, music, tv, the internet all these things can cause people to act violent.
Games are there for amusement not to be taken seriously. I can’t believe that if someone plays a game and sees a burning man that there going to go out there and set a man on fire.
If some one is violent you can NOT turn around and blame it on a game, it was them selves who went through with the violence. Never in a single game does it say violence is good.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?