Parents think playing MW2/CSS will make me violent

[puqdew]

Any gamer can tell you this is ridiculous but are there any studies I can show them?

I'm 17 too

 

[Ricemarine]

Normative statement. Don't bother with people who present biased opinions. It just isn't worth the trouble.

This space is for sale.

 

[fatpat268]

There's probably no study in the world that will convince parents with dead set beliefs that video games create violent individuals otherwise.

I don't have any advice for you. Sorry. You'll get to make your own choices soon enough if you move out.

 

[her209]

You should be out getting poonany anyways.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

MW2 turned me into a werewolf.

 

[destrekor]

whatever you do, don't show them this

 

[Adrenaline]

Just tell them that they taught you well in differentiating between reality and fiction. Video games are fiction, nothing more.

 

[Jeff7]

Yes, they're very dangerous. All the kids who played "Cowboys and Indians" grew up to either be violent people who shot at minorities, or else were forced by the government to leave their homes.
Don't let your babies grow up to be gamers.

Or worse: Think of the kids who watched The Three Stooges.

Also, watching Sesame Street convinced me that large anthropomorphic talking birds with imaginary hairy elephant friends are totally normal. And it taught me that a lot of people I might know are actually puppets.

There's probably no study in the world that will convince parents with dead set beliefs that video games create violent individuals otherwise.

I don't have any advice for you. Sorry. You'll get to make your own choices soon enough if you move out.

This.
And tell your parents to watch less cable "news". I hear that the BBC is generally a better source of real news, and not entertainment-news.
Now back to our round-the-clock coverage of Balloon Boy at school.


(Yeah, there's irony for you - they're concerned about a game's influence on you, but not concerned about the media's influence on them.)

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Ask Jack Thompson.

 

[rocadelpunk]

their house their rules.

So go to a friend's house where you can play : P

That's pretty bad though at 17 parents still THAT controlling? I think you should work on your stance of dominance

 

[surfsatwerk]

Quit spending so much time playing games and go get some girl knocked up.

 

[PottedMeat]

grab your dad by the throat and tell him to shut the fuck up and put the lotion on his skin or he'll get the hose again.

 

[F1N3ST]

Pull a gun on them and be like, I didn't learn this from CSS, bitch.

 

[Mike Gayner]

You're 17 - move out if your parents are such idiotic dickwads, which they clearly are.

 

[Mr. Lennon]

grab your dad by the throat and tell him to shut the fuck up and put the lotion on his skin or he'll get the hose again.

lol

I grew up watching rated R movies, playing violent games....I'm probably the most peaceful guy you will ever meet.

 

[Jeff7]

Pull a gun on them and be like, I didn't learn this from CSS, bitch.

Gotta be dual-wielding if you're going to do that though.

 

[Lamont Burns]

gotta be dual-wielding if you're going to do that though.

deagles

 

[destrekor]

Gotta be dual-wielding if you're going to do that though.

well if he does that, he better tell them he learned how terribly inaccurate that really is in spite of what the games say

 

[Red Squirrel]

I always lol at the concept that violent games and movies make people violent. Games and movies are actually inspired by things that happen, not the other way around. Violent WW2 movies/games did not cause WW2.

 

[0roo0roo]

the rock and roll will make the youngens have the sex yes.

the rise of violent video games coincides with the drop in youth violence and crime.

just a fact.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I always lol at the concept that violent games and movies make people violent. Games and movies are actually inspired by things that happen, not the other way around. Violent WW2 movies/games did not cause WW2.

Or did they? :hmm:

 

[destrekor]

I always lol at the concept that violent games and movies make people violent. Games and movies are actually inspired by things that happen, not the other way around. Violent WW2 movies/games did not cause WW2.

Surely you jest.
We all know WWII would never have happened if it weren't for video games.

 

[ModerateRepZero]

There's probably no study in the world that will convince parents with dead set beliefs that video games create violent individuals otherwise.

I don't have any advice for you. Sorry. You'll get to make your own choices soon enough if you move out.

While that's true, there's nothing wrong with the OP trying to point out that there is NO reliable study which has shown that violent video games = violent individuals. considering how popular video and computer games are, quite a few people would be locked up.

Also consider that long before video games there have been outbreaks of violence...for example, Vikings raping and pillaging, the Huns conquering Asia. Electronic simulations of violence are not necessary for homicidal tendencies. Ted Bundy was a serial killer long before Doom and other violent video/computer games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_controversy#Crime_and_violence

excerpts:

However, several major studies by groups such as The Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health, The Journal of Adolescent Health, and The British Medical Journal have shown no conclusive link between video game usage and violent activity." One study did find an increase in reports of bullying, noting, "Our research found that certain patterns of video game play were much more likely to be associated with these types of behavioral problems than with major violent crime such as school shootings.

t is also worth noting that violent crime rates in the USA have declined dramatically since the early 1990s, among both juveniles and adults, even as sales of violent video games exploded and such games became increasingly graphic over time.

I think that the 3 essential points attempting to convey is this:

1) video/computer games do not make someone violent anymore than watching violent/disturbing movies will.

2) Any comparison is mixed at best; People can have homicidal/violent tendencies without violent entertainment (ie Vikings, Huns), and if everyone was turned into a violent person, too many people would be locked up.

3) violent games as well as violent movies don't turn someone into a violent person generally due to the ability to distinguish between reality and fiction, to be able to have a sense of humanity and compassion, and to accept that violence doesn't solve problems in real life the way it does in fantasy/fiction.

 

[Raduque]

Download a copy, play the "No Russian" level, and don't shoot anybody. Tell them to come watch you not shooting anybody.

 

[brblx]

kill your parents.