Do you think Violent Games= Violent People?

[KingKeith55]

Let them be violent in video games; so that they don't be in real life.

[evilarceus]

If you want to spend more time investigating, look up @MomsAgainstGam on Twitter I know it might be fake, but it makes me laugh.

[Guest]

No.

Violence and Anger are both natural human emotions.

 

Back in the 1940s, they thought if you read to many violent books, you would become violent.

[Counter-Strike Player]

I would say it depends on who you play with. If you're just sitting in a room all night alone rank whoring, you're eventually going to get fucked in the head. That's the upside to the xbox pizza/couch culture -- it's more open to social gatherings and not just "hanging out" in teamspeak playing random dota matches while half-listening to a group talking about other things.

[You_are_a_cunt]

If that were true, 99.9% of us would be in jail by now

[soaringchicken]

Does watching jersey shore make you dumb?

 

ohh shit.......

[Camul]

Hasn't every study into this proven that the answer is no? Anyway, the answer is no. When I play GTA I pretty much just spend the entire time massacaring people. But I don't have any desire to even hurt a person's feelings in real life.

 

 

Shitty gun laws = Violent people

Looking at you america

 

Answer yo your question is no.

 

Guns don't cause violence any more than video games do. I don't like guns. I don't like how rediculsly pathetic US gun control is. I don't like the stupid excuses that stubborn gun enthusiast come up with to justify the shitty level of gun control in the US. I pretty much hate everything about them. But even I think what you said is dumb.

[Paralectic]

GTA V makes people kill everyone on the streets.

 

/sarcasm

[Serin]

DayZ, ARMA 3 etc etc I'm a heartless bitch. In real life I'm basically a pacifist. Hell, the most violent I've ever been was defending myself from drunk idiots attempting to thieve my friends skateboard many years ago.
Anecdotes aside, there is research on this subject. Read up.

[MegaDave91]

I think it can fuel violent tendencies, but otherwise to the "sane" individual; no.

[WereCat]

Lags are the cause why people get violent.

[Kalle Hänninen]

Question is not does it, but how much.

[Kalle Hänninen]

DayZ, ARMA 3 etc etc I'm a heartless bitch. In real life I'm basically a pacifist. Hell, the most violent I've ever been was defending myself from drunk idiots attempting to thieve my friends skateboard many years ago.

Anecdotes aside, there is research on this subject. Read up.

I always fantasy being dickslapper in games, but good games make me care for the characters.

[Annoyingnerds]

no not at all... as long as people understand what they are playing. If there is killing in a game and you are old enough to understand that irl it is horrible and wrong it is fine, but younger kids 5/6 can be affected as they have not been exposed to violence irl. I play chivalry hitman and ac, all gory games but i do not think i have been affected in any way shape or form

Nah, that's just an old fairy tale made by your parents to make you stop from playing sadistic games.

[lightningterror]

Lags are the cause why people get violent.

 

This.

[KemoKa]

I go into a rather placid state when I'm playing Borderlands 2 (not the most violent game, but not the most flowery either). I'm the same when playing other fps games. It doesn't make me angry or violent, it calms me down. That's impressive since I'm more passive and quiet than most people. I am not a violent person at all.

My parents think they cause violence though. They don't like them. That said, it's like back in the 50s, when people thought TV would rot your brain. Or in the 1850s when people thought that reading novels would rot your brain. Or the 1750s when people thought that literacy would rot your brain. Or the 1650s when people thought that science was heresy. People are always averse to new things that they didn't have when they were young, save for the few people who aren't close-minded little snowflakes. Doubtless there are many people who swear that VR will be the end of society.

 

Video games don't make you violent. Violence makes you violent.

[Megahurt]

 

You realize that just because one person is willing to punch a person in the face, that doesn't necessarily mean they would have committed murder if they had had a gun....right?

Absolutely, but some people are capable of bridging that gap, and you'd have less of those if guns weren't widely available.

[Trik'Stari]

Absolutely, but some people are capable of bridging that gap, and you'd have less of those if guns weren't widely available.

Yeah, that argument only works if you outlaw and ban guns all over the world. Criminals always find a way to commit crimes.

[Megahurt]

Yeah, that argument only works if you outlaw and ban guns all over the world. Criminals always find a way to commit crimes.

Nah, you don't need to get rid of all guns, just reduce the number of them, less guns, less gun deaths, works in most developped countries. It's not a black or white issue that is only worth it if you get rid of the problem completely, it's a balance between freedom and safety. Some restrictions on guns doesn't impede on freedom much, and can have big impacts on safety, even if it's only in the mentality people have towards guns.

[fehllyy]

Its actually proven that people who play violent video games have a higher pain threshold (just a little fun fact).

[SteveGrabowski0]

Look at what these games do to old people

 

 

[moderategamer]

A controversial debate for sure.

I think that no, violent games don't produce violent people

However, I think they do add something to the person's character, note not for all but for SOME exceptions. For example if a 11-12 year old kid is playing cod constantly or other games, failing at them, getting mad, I think he may get bigger rages thru time. Or that may even transer into real life. Imagine kids playing gta, cod and other "violent" games their whole life, I think they do add a minor percentage to their "agression" but not to the point where they would kill people or do other mayor crimes but more in the way they may get angry at something/ somebody slightly faster, maybe even get their rage out with breaking things because of those slightly bigger rages while gaming.

And I'm speaking for "normal" people. For those who are already at the edge of killing someone games just push them the last step, maybe because they raged hard and are now ultra mad or something.

Your thoughts? No hate wars pls

Yeah I think video games give young impressionable children a excuse to rage especially children that have problems with to much energy. At least I think this was certainly the case for us 90s kids that weren't introduced to online gaming till we were a little older. For me personally I felt like I was untouchable at games as a kid then I was introduced to online gaming and I suddenly realised that there were people out there that were better than me (AKA had less of a life than me ) that's not to say I wasn't still pretty good on the grand scale of things but it still passed me off. But no I don't think games drive people to be bad or anything I think that just comes from people that aren't necessarily able to stick to their moral codes and allow themselves to be bullied past the point that they can handle and they lose there shit. Moral of the story is don't let anyone change the things you hold dear about your morality/humanity and you can deal with anything life throws at you.

[Bsmith]

no, cuse i doubt IS, osama, bush and many others played CSGO, cod, bf orso ever in their life.

[Trik'Stari]

Nah, you don't need to get rid of all guns, just reduce the number of them, less guns, less gun deaths, works in most developped countries. It's not a black or white issue that is only worth it if you get rid of the problem completely, it's a balance between freedom and safety. Some restrictions on guns doesn't impede on freedom much, and can have big impacts on safety, even if it's only in the mentality people have towards guns.

Worth pointing out that what works in one country doesn't necessarily work in another. Case in point, if you look in the US, state by state, the states with the strictest gun laws, have higher amounts of violent crime (not just gun crime, although the amounts of gun crime are also higher) and states with more "relaxed" gun laws, have less violent crime and less gun crime. Mainly because those states have more people who can defend themselves, and criminals know this. Criminals tend to naturally gravitate towards places where their success is more likely. And when every gas station might have a gun behind the counter, well....is it really worth that risk?

 

Also, take into account that the number of gun deaths per year in the US isn't always an accurate number, as the government and biased media like to include suicides by gun, in that number. Which isn't necessarily an accurate representation of gun crime.

[Real_PhillBert]

Violent games don't make people murderers any more than flight sims make people pilots, or sports games make people sports stars.