Actually, this is not the case. That myth was started up by the Over Protective Parental Society of America (aka Catholics).
Sure there have been studies that so called "prove" that violent games have adverse effects on players, but there are also counter studies that prove if the child was raised correctly and had his morals installed correctly when they were being raised that exposure to violent games and media will not have any effect on them.
Most of these studies use already mentally questionable subjects who have a bad home environment in which the parents are not strict enough with rules and teaching life's lessons to their children.
I can offer up myself as a resource for postulating that viloent media doesnt make viloent people.
I started playing FPS (First Person Shooter) games like Half-life and Golden Eye, fighting games, Grand Theft Auto, Need for Speed, and Resident Evil when I was 11. I do not and probably will not own a gun and don't believe that guns are useful to civilians.
I have never been in a fight or been arrested. I have never gotten a speeding ticket or anything.
These games had no influance on me because my praents did what they were supposed to do.
Anytime you see a violent action based upon a game, thats a parent that did not do their nature given job. It is the parents job to protect their children from what they do not think is good for them, not the government, or other third-party.
It's like blaming the makers of a machine gun used in a war for killing your child when he or she was killed by terrorists or some other opposing force.
Or over the counter chemical makers if their products are used in the making of a bomb.
Its passing the responsibility for the actions of the parents to the game makers.
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Actually, this is not the case. That myth was started up by the Over Protective Parental Society of America (aka Catholics).
Sure there have been studies that so called "prove" that violent games have adverse effects on players, but there are also counter studies that prove if the child was raised correctly and had his morals installed correctly when they were being raised that exposure to violent games and media will not have any effect on them.
Most of these studies use already mentally questionable subjects who have a bad home environment in which the parents are not strict enough with rules and teaching life's lessons to their children.
I can offer up myself as a resource for postulating that viloent media doesnt make viloent people.
I started playing FPS (First Person Shooter) games like Half-life and Golden Eye, fighting games, Grand Theft Auto, Need for Speed, and Resident Evil when I was 11. I do not and probably will not own a gun and don't believe that guns are useful to civilians.
I have never been in a fight or been arrested. I have never gotten a speeding ticket or anything.
These games had no influance on me because my praents did what they were supposed to do.
Anytime you see a violent action based upon a game, thats a parent that did not do their nature given job. It is the parents job to protect their children from what they do not think is good for them, not the government, or other third-party.
It's like blaming the makers of a machine gun used in a war for killing your child when he or she was killed by terrorists or some other opposing force.
Or over the counter chemical makers if their products are used in the making of a bomb.
Its passing the responsibility for the actions of the parents to the game makers.
November 1, 2009 - 11:14amThis Comment
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