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Do violent video games, pc games and violent movies encourage violence?

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Originally posted by: Ciber
I agree with Skyclad1uhm1. Most of our problems right now are thanks to stupid irresponsible parents, i mean how many 16-20 year olds did you see killing their classmates or just killing each other over sneakers or killing someone else just because they walked by their neighborhood in the early days?

My 11 year old cousin is one of these disrespectful little brats with no manners, because both of the parents work and once they get home they either have more work with them or are too tired so they just tell her to go do her homework or go watch tv. You can forget about them telling the kid anything now cause she will just start crying or god knows what, so they let her do whatever she wants so she doesnt cry and bother them.

Heh, i remember when i was a kid, we would always get in trouble because ALL of the parents knew each other and had no problem giving us a slap in the ass and then telling our parents which would then slap us in the ass again and ground us, and god help us if we were stupid enough to talk back to an adult back then. Now if an adult says something to a kid the person will either get beat up by the kid or cursed out or the kid will get the parent which will then curse out the adult and tell him to mind his own business or beat them up or call the cops on them.
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Heck even the cops were allowed to use common sense when I was a kid. They knew what incidents merited an arrest rather than either a stern talking to or a ride home to the parents. Today everyone is so afraid of being second guessed or sued they use 0 common sense and you have things like a girl not able to graduate because someone saw a butter knife on the floor of her car while parked at school. My neighbors would not hesitate to dress us down for doing stupid things and our biggest fear would be that it would not stop there but that they would also mention it to our parents. If that happened then I was guilty of one of the worst things I could have done which was to have embarassed my parents in front of the neighbors.
 
Some psychological and sociological studies have shown that violent games etc do increase irritability/excitability among those who are playing them, especially WHILE they are playing them. Whether or not that irritability/excitability has a lasting effect is debatable.

At least, that was where the research on this stood 5 years ago or so on this, when I was in college.

Good luck with your paper!
 
you are what you think, and sitting in front of a screen virtually killing for four hours ends up affecting you negativly one way or another.
 
Originally posted by: novon
you are what you think, and sitting in front of a screen virtually killing for four hours ends up affecting you negativly one way or another.
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yes, because I always get these urges to run up walls and bite people's heads off and spit at them and sit on street corners and chuckle ... </Natural Selection references>

Then again, I don't have the IQ of a rhubarb.

- M4H
 
Originally posted by: novon
you are what you think, and sitting in front of a screen virtually killing for four hours ends up affecting you negativly one way or another.
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No matter how hard I try I cannot seem to conjur up magic fireballs to throw at my fellow citizens that annoy me nor have I figured out how to teleport myself to work and home even though I sit in front of a computer sometimes for over 4 hours doing exactly these things. Then again at age 6 I knew I could not take a pair of scissors and clamp them on my brothers nose and twist it no matter how many times I saw Moe do it to Curly and Larry on TV.
 
First, if you're doing a research paper, you should be scouring psychology journals, not asking for biased opinion on a public forum. 🙂

Second, studies have shown that while there IS a correlation between aggressiveness in adolescents and amount of violent television watched, it is still unknown which direction the effect is tilted (i.e. does aggressive nature lead to more violent TV watching, or other way around?).

PM me and I'll give you the source.
 
Kids used to play cops and robbers or cowboys and indians with realistic toy guns. They didn't kill each other like they do today.
 
Well, inform me on the next time someone who plays video games uses a sniper rifle on random people and then proceeds to rocket jump to safety, and I just might think so.

As for the army fps, I think of it more as a propoganda tool. Get kids interested in the army, you might get some future soldiers.
 
Originally posted by: Isla
Some psychological and sociological studies have shown that violent games etc do increase irritability/excitability among those who are playing them, especially WHILE they are playing them. Whether or not that irritability/excitability has a lasting effect is debatable.

At least, that was where the research on this stood 5 years ago or so on this, when I was in college.

Good luck with your paper!
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But then, a lot of papers with BS results are released every day, showing only what the personal opinion is of the maker of the paper, or that of the persons who hired him/her. Pay me enough and I will release a paper with 'proof' that the Hot Deals forum stops people from ever spending more than they can or should.
 
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