Do violent video games lead to behavior problems?

Violent games= bad behavior?

  • Yes.

    Votes: 4 23.5%
  • Not necessarily.

    Votes: 13 76.5%

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Mudo

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So do you guys think that violent games lead to behavior problems in school for example? Particularly the younger ones playing M rated games is what worries me the most. Are the parents to blame for letting them play these games?
 

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That's BS.

I am a pacifist and I played Zombies (Black Ops), Halo 3, San Andreas, all pretty bad games for my age when I used to play them and I turned out just fine.

It has to do with the parenting.
 

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I know kids that never played games,but end up getting anger problems due to the parents. If a parent acts up in front of their kids at a young age the kid would pick up on the behavior/learn it .
This ^ I believe however young the child is also affects how they cope with keeping the content inside of the game, IN the game and not project it into the real world.
 

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I know kids that never played games,but end up getting anger problems due to the parents. If a parent acts up in front of their kids at a young age that kid would pick up on the behavior/learn it .
I never said that was the sole Reason that kids turn out that way. Just from what ive seen most kids who always plays grusome games turn out with some anger problems
 

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Every person is different but if a parent lets a young child play an M rated game that includes intense violence in some cases it can lead to behavioral problems and make them aggressive. The reason we have a rating system is to let parents know what content is in video games and what age a child should be generally before being exposed to it, I mean parents obviously have free choice to introduce their children to whatever they wish, but as a child's brain develops one of the things it creates over the first 16-20 years of life is what is appropriate social conduct and how they should act around others, and exposing kids to cursing, intense violence, gore, ***. It's not good for a child socially... I mean some kids can take it but that means their parents teach them good social conduct and to define the difference between games and reality which is where kids get confused they think hitting people and cussing and acting sexual is OK because they see T and M rated characters do it and think that its OK because they see these characters react to one another.

Kids need to develop 2 things before playing M games; decent social conduct and a concept of reality and fantasy, which takes years, you might mature faster than other people and your parents may know this and let you play them at a younger than suggested age but that's their choice. The responsibility is fully on the parents.

We have a rating system so parents can decide not so game makers can walk door to door and instruct parents on what's right to play at what age, parents know their kids and are able to make the decisions themselves and just because a game has mature content in it doesn't mean you get rid of the game it means you don't show it to kids, just like adult TV shows, or animes, or books.

My favorite quote for this argument and other censorship arguments is by Mark Twain... Censorship is not letting a man eat a steak because a baby can't chew it.
 

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I grew up playing DOOM and wolfenstein. A good portion of my childhood was shooting nazis and i have no behavioral problems
 

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No, depends on everything. Parenting, the kid's social life, media itself, everything. I believe games could be a factor because anything's possible, but I don't blame games.
 

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no i don't think so.. i can do all the badass things in the game that i cannot do in real life so it's a stress reliever for me!!!:D when it comes to the parents i guess they shouldn't be blamed coz it all depends on the child..:)
 
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