Violence in video games. It's pretty much one of the biggest critisms around. It's plastered all over the news, it's involved directly with the news, and it just gets spread around like wildfire. Let me toss in my opinion on this matter.
We all know about the school massacres, Colombine for example. There has been some evidence claiming that these kids played violent video games and that's what caused them to go out and kill dozens of people. The big picture is that these kids had WAY more problems than just playing violent video games.
I can be one example for this. I'm your average 16 year old male, and I've been playing M-rated video games since the age of 7. I've had absolutely no anger problems my entire life, and I definately haven't tried to mass murder people.
Violent video games, heck, even video games in general are a way to get away and do things you can't normally do in your life (be it by imagination or legal reasons, ho ho).
Here's a question: If the parents knew that the kids had problems, why didn't they take these 'murder simulators' away from them?
It's simply the parent's fault. You need to trust your child and make sure they're mature enough to handle these things. My parents and I had a talk like this, and they knew I was mature enough to handle these games.
Parents, if you don't talk to your children about these things, you may never know.
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I definetely agree. Parents should trust their kids instead of hiding them from the world. This also applies to advertisements and movies promoting drugs, sex ,and alcohol.
ReplyDeleteInteresting perspective, especially coming from a 'kid'. I agree with you, and believe the more involved parents are in their kids' lives, the better society would be.
ReplyDeleteI agree - I think it's not the video games themselves that is causing problems, it's who's being allowed to play them. Kids that are not mentally/emotionally stable or who are susceptible to violence should not participate in violent games and kids who are mature enough to seperate fantasy from reality should be just fine playing them.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the fact that parents should watch their children more but I do not agree with the fact that there should be video games out there like this. Video games that express amounts of violence like killing multiple people, are not okay; these types of video games make death, or murder, seem like an understatment, and it's not.
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