This video explains the way that I feel about video games and their potential affect on future violence in children. Violent and action video games have been around for almost 20 years now. So if these games directly cause the player to become a sociopath and a killer, wouldn't we half of the nation be killing other people?
Media in general has desensitized the general population to violence and death, but desensitization is not enough to make people start being violent. Humans in their nature are constantly at a war with themselves. We have a strong desire to create and build, but at the same time, we are very destructive in nature. To say that we are more violent now than we ever have been just doesn't make any sense. The only reason why our destruction may seem greater is because we have created more advanced weapons to do the destruction for us.
While I don't think that 8-year-old kids should be playing a bunch of shootem-up games, I think that it is the parents responsibility to educate their kids about the differences in fantasy and reality.
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