yep. got this assignment done and now i need other opinions.

do u believe violent video games contribute to teen violence?
y or y not?


so please be nice and reply with a well supported reason for your belief.
u dont have to write a big paragraph, unless u want to, but jus be in detail please :D

thanx in advance

 

well if u do decide to comment, can u please leave ur name and age, and if you have a kids, can you leave the age of the oldest child

c'mon voice ur opions :D

 

are you having us do your assignment for you? haha. where's dashon, this is all him. let me get him for you.

My opinion though: People love to blame everyone else but themselves. Violent video games can go hand and hand with movies, music, and any type of media if you take a certain side. I think people know what's reality and what's only in their XBox screen. The adrenaline and aggression could be positive ways to vent stress in a person's daily life.

 

age is right next to our sn's.

Tam, no kids.

 

thanx

and no, lol, u are not doing the work for me.

i had to give my opinion and get some opinions for others

again, thanx :D

 

I am 37, have a teenaged daughter 16 and a son 8, both are actually my husbands kids, but we are a family just the same, there is no "step" in my view.

Now, I grew up listening to AC/DC and other hard core (for the time) rock and roll, punk rock etc. back in the 80's they were supposed to worship the devil, I an no more a devil worshiper than I am a serial killer.

I use this example because I don't believe that violent games, cartoons, movies etc make anyone do anything they are not already predisposed to do. Family upbringing, discepline, instilling moral values and self respect, learning respect for others, accountability for one's actions, these are things that are taught by parents and elders of children as they mature through life. I was spanked as a child too, not beaten by my parents but spanked, disciplined and guided through that discipline to become an upstanding adult in life. Those are the things that create the moral make up of a person.

Today in society we have some very serious issues with juveniles... I have the perfect case in point, my 16 year old daughter was not the person we thought she was, not even close. In August of this year we found out that she had been steeling our cars (4 of the 6 we currently own - long story) over the course of about 6 weeks. One of which was my tC, 2 of the cars were being garaged and were uninsured at the time this happened (I say this because I had just inherrited a sizable estate upon the death of my father - so my financial well being was definitely at risk). This girl was unlicensed and had NO driver training (due to poor grades in school). Anyway, thank god there were no accidents, and we found out completely by accident on August 14th...

(I'm getting to the point), I called the police to press charges, what a joke, you know that in the state of California you have to have 9 counts of Grand Theft (which is not joyriding) to be put into juvenile hall, 9... and it has to be Grand Theft, that is when the crime has the intent to permanently deprive someone of their automobile. When I asked the officer why, he simply told me that it was not a haneous crime... okay my thoughts were well this is only the beginning of a felonious lifestyle, hello, how about nipping things in the bud here? Simply no accountability. The officer then went on to tell me that maybe I should quit my job so I can stay home and be with her 24/7 to police her. Haneous crime by the way is pretty much murder if you are a minor.

That is simply just one example.... There was another incident in which she told my husband, you can't hit me I will call child protective services and get you in trouble, holy $hit batman, it was all I could do not to just beat her for good measure and take my lumps with the state.

Kids are now told that they can not be descliplined, they know their parents are powerless. What is one to do take a cell phone away, take a computer away, no TV... oooh that is tough, they simply wait it out.

With our daughter, we did not get her until she was 15 from her mother, who did not raise her right to begin with. The therapist (which by the way did absolutely no good) told us that she was a sociopath who thrived on chaos, to create chaos in our family was her ultimate goal because then everyone focused attention on her. We found out that she had also started abusing drugs and this was only the tip of the iceberg once we really started digging... We got her the best help, nothing worked. The therapist advised us to walk, save ourselves because there was little that could be done. I am sorry to say that we have had her removed permanently from our home and have cut off all contact due to this and several other issues.

My ultimate point here is that it begins at birth, when they are little little ones. Kids need to be started out on the right foot, it is far too easy to loose them. The wrong crowd, drugs, bad behavior these things can be prevented if the effort starts young it is a lot harder to start from the bottom and work your way up. The TV is not a baby sitter, neither is the Xbox. Quality family time, sit down dinners, family outings, making an effort as a parent... that is what works.

Here, if you can try to find Steamboat *****, this is Mickey Mouse's first cartoon, they were violent, there were scary movies in black and white, gangster movies also in black and white... that stuff has been around forever, video games are just an extension of media... if they have the right foundation that is what matters.

I am not saying that is a hard and fast rule but there is something to what I have said. If people were held accountable for their actions rather than having them swept under the rug maybe things would be different. Others will feel very differently, this is simply an opnion, I had a strict up bringing, my dad was tough but while my parents were together we were a family, they divorced when I was 8, when I was older I was a "latch key kid", I was molested as a child, and abused by other family members... I had a tough childhood, every reason to stray the wrong way and luckily did not. The worst thing I have ever done in my life is get a speeding ticket.

Wow this is long, sorry for being so chatty... I hope this (though lengthy) was kind of what you were looking for.

 

Steve, 35, one daughter (age 9), NO, I think stupid parents contribute to teen violence...

 

My name is Mike, I'm 24 and have no kids, but I have 5+ years of experience working with grades K-12(some with severe emotional/mental disorders).

Short version at the bottom:

It has been scientifically proven(and I agree with it), that video game violence is no more harmful than the violence found on the news or in the paper. I wish I still had my old paper on this. I did a 20+ page psych paper with journal studies to back me on it.

From a psychological point of view, there are the different types of personalities. Each personality is affected by different things in different ways. Violence in a game will do no harm to a person who can maintain a grip on reality. The only reason said violence is blamed is because it may be found after a person commits a violent crime, and the parents/police are looking for an excuse. The best quote I can remember in my studies was, "Nobody wants to take responsibility". That is basically what it comes down to.

Look at the Columbine incident(I know this isn't video games, but its media in general), after it happened, people started blaming Marilyn Manson. All that man is guilty of is making bad music. It's just like the song "Suicide Solution" by Black Sabbath(or was it Ozzy's solo works) that was attacked when someone actually killed himself while listening to the song. I often joked about someone putting Britney Spears in a discman and blowing up a building just to see what will be used as an excuse afterwards.

Recap: A person will not become violent due to video games or any type of media in general if he/she is not a violent person to begin with.

 

Very well said...

 

I cannot count the number of people I shot between the ages of 8 and 18. If I had to guess, in the high hundreds of thousands, to low millions. The more blood squirting out of the bodies, the more I enjoyed it (especially looking through a sniper scope).

However, playing 10 years of violent video games never once impaired my judgement, or counteracted my mother's lessons of respect for life and humanity.

Chances are, any parent whom blames video games for their child's violent behavior, has other parental issues that are not being addressed.

 

Alot of what they ^ said....

Video games acted as a way of stress relief for me because the game has no permanent consequences. However, since ive always known that the real world has lasting consequences to your actions I tend to keep my violence inside the game instead of outside of it.

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wow!!!

thanx for the info guys/girls.

madzoz, this is for my psych class as well, but only an 8 page paper

rivrtc, yes it was long, lol, but u made a point so its all good. no chatter

thanx for the insight peeps :D

but um.........is there anybody that does feel that violent video games cause teen violence???