Do video games cause violence in children?

[Jolthig]

No. It's just a scapegoat to blame an unrelated topic in place of the actual issues: Radicalism, mental health, and lax gun laws and their enforcement.

[Thepeopl]

Not gonna lie, Need For Speed probably made me a better driver.

Nah bruv all it did to me was make me obsessed with "SPEED AND POWER!"

So it made you an expert in engine enhancing?

[Springfeal]

I played violent video games all the time in my childhood and I still do. Yet, I have never shot anyone nor stabbed anyone. The last time I committed an act of violence was when I beat the shit out of a bully in junior high school that was beating up one of my classmates that was in a wheelchair. Yes, that bully was that pathetic.

[Rojava Free State]

Too right videogames cause violence in children. When my younger brother figured out that the P1 controller was better there were many fights about it.

I had a 7 year age advantage so I didn't really bother me none.

First-person shooters made me violent, because aiming a rifle with a joystick is ABSOLUTE FUCKING BULLSHIT.

Once I lost a match of Halo Reach to my friend Austin, so I punched my pillow in my bedroom out of anger

Damn, that videogame made me violent

[Chessmistress]

No, it's just an excuse used by Trump (and others) to not take action to enforce stricter laws about guns.

"Is it bad to fire against human-shaped characters?"

If you ask the above question to Trump (and others) while speaking about videogames, they're going to answer "yes".

Okay, think about it for a moment, then google images search with "gun range" or "shooting range", then show them the pictures and then ask them again the same question...their brains are going to explode, because at least half the pictures will be like that:

[Rojava Free State]

I played violent video games all the time in my childhood and I still do. Yet, I have never shot anyone nor stabbed anyone. The last time I committed an act of violence was when I beat the shit out of a bully in junior high school that was beating up one of my classmates that was in a wheelchair. Yes, that bully was that pathetic.

Your high school just beat mine in the race of shameful behavior

[Fartsniffage]

Too right videogames cause violence in children. When my younger brother figured out that the P1 controller was better there were many fights about it.

I had a 7 year age advantage so I didn't really bother me none.

First-person shooters made me violent, because aiming a rifle with a joystick is ABSOLUTE FUCKING BULLSHIT.

Timesplitters 2 is the finest game ever made and it was best on Gamecube. Joystick aiming for the win on that one.

[Dresderstan]

Nah bruv all it did to me was make me obsessed with "SPEED AND POWER!"

So it made you an expert in engine enhancing?

No, all I care about is making the car go faster, none of that aero shit. (Enzo Ferrari intensifies)

[Rojava Free State]

No, it's just an excuse used by Trump (and others) to not take action to enforce stricter laws about guns.

"Is it bad to fire against human-shaped characters?"

If you ask the above question to Trump (and others) while speaking about videogames, they're going to answer "yes".

Okay, think about it for a moment, then google images search with "gun range" or "shooting range", then show them the pictures and then ask them again the same question...their brains are going to explode, because at least half the pictures will be like that:

Trump is such a hypocrite for attacking violent videogames. This dude spent much of his campaign egging his audience on to beat the shit out of protesters, said "maybe the second amendment people can do something about Hillary clinton," threatened riots if he wasn't nominated at the RNC and constantly accuses his personal enemies of being "enemies of the people." I wanna know what videogame made him so violent if he thinks his theory is correct

[Scomagia]

Video games help me relieve stress personally.

I relieve stress by tagging. It's my favorite past time when I get off work late at night and have nothing to do for a while. I spend most of my shift looking forward to closing time at 9:30 when I get out. From there on out its just me myself and I

You're tagging your own things, I hope.

[Pacomia]

The news operates in a way where the victims are just statistics while the murderer gets round the clock coverage on his whole life story and basically becomes a celebrity. That's gotta change

I agree. I want to feel pain, partly because it makes me worry about my own morality and empathy, as I value empathy and not being a sociopath.

I’ve just accepted that I have no emotions. I know I should be sad or angry or happy about things, but I just can’t be. Might be why I never cry during movies. Coco wasn’t a sad movie, damn it!

[Fartsniffage]

No, it's just an excuse used by Trump (and others) to not take action to enforce stricter laws about guns.


If you ask the above question to Trump (and others) while speaking about videogames, they're going to answer "yes".

Okay, think about it for a moment, then google images search with "gun range" or "shooting range", then show them the pictures and then ask them again the same question...their brains are going to explode, because at least half the pictures will be like that:

Trump is such a hypocrite for attacking violent videogames. This dude spent much of his campaign egging his audience on to beat the shit out of protesters, said "maybe the second amendment people can do something about Hillary clinton," threatened riots if he wasn't nominated at the RNC and constantly accuses his personal enemies of being "enemies of the people." I wanna know what videogame made him so violent if he thinks his theory is correct

The Stock Market.

[The Two Jerseys]

First-person shooters made me violent, because aiming a rifle with a joystick is ABSOLUTE FUCKING BULLSHIT.

Have you tried playing Mount and Blade with a keyboard?

Ugh...

I can't play any shooty-type games on Wii, my brain literally cannot process the fact that you can't sight the controller on a target like a handgun.

[Thepeopl]

Fire Emblem made me a better swordfighter.

Now I'm curious, how much do you actually use that skill?

I have a practice katana, a show katana and a "real" katana. I also dabble in Bow fighting ( quarterstaff for Americans I think) Sai, axe and Tonfa. So I guess twice a week?

[Rojava Free State]

I agree. I want to feel pain, partly because it makes me worry about my own morality and empathy, as I value empathy and not being a sociopath.

I’ve just accepted that I have no emotions. I know I should be sad or angry or happy about things, but I just can’t be. Might be why I never cry during movies. Coco wasn’t a sad movie, damn it!

I have emotions but I've learned to hide them. I tend not to talk to a lot of people these days so as far as the general public is concerned, I'm nothing but a shadow out of the corner of their eye.

[Rojava Free State]

Trump is such a hypocrite for attacking violent videogames. This dude spent much of his campaign egging his audience on to beat the shit out of protesters, said "maybe the second amendment people can do something about Hillary clinton," threatened riots if he wasn't nominated at the RNC and constantly accuses his personal enemies of being "enemies of the people." I wanna know what videogame made him so violent if he thinks his theory is correct

The Stock Market.

Guess it's time to ban the Dow Jones

[LimaUniformNovemberAlpha]

That might depend on the video game.

[Rojava Free State]

I have a practice katana, a show katana and a "real" katana. I also dabble in Bow fighting ( quarterstaff for Americans I think) Sai, axe and Tonfa. So I guess twice a week?

You just revealed yourself.

Guess it's time to ban the Dow Jones

And there goes Capitalism...

Communists:

[Saiwania]

The majority of Baby Boomers don't play video games or grew up in an era where it wasn't a big thing, but if they have lots of influence in government, it is easy enough for them to simply blame video games than to do anything against guns which is more their thing.

[Thepeopl]

I agree. I want to feel pain, partly because it makes me worry about my own morality and empathy, as I value empathy and not being a sociopath.

I’ve just accepted that I have no emotions. I know I should be sad or angry or happy about things, but I just can’t be. Might be why I never cry during movies. Coco wasn’t a sad movie, damn it!

Don't you have emotions period, or "only" no empathy?

And I agree, Coco wasn't a sad movie.

[Kremlinian Russia]

Actually that's probably why I'm not emotionally affected by mass shootings. I mean, yeah I hate them and think they're evil and monstrous but, I'm not emotional about it.

Me too. One of Stalin’s quotes (which is actually featured on the HOI4 loading screen) is “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

That’s how HOI4 feels. That’s also sort of how mass shootings feel, at least to me.

Funnily enough though, he didn't actually say that according to research on the subject:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/2 ... statistic/

even Wikiquote doesn't acknowledge him every saying the quote in recorded history:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_St ... attributed

Nevertheless, in games like HOI4, it does end up being completely true.

[Pacomia]

I’ve just accepted that I have no emotions. I know I should be sad or angry or happy about things, but I just can’t be. Might be why I never cry during movies. Coco wasn’t a sad movie, damn it!

I cry at random times-or want to.

Like in the July Debates weirdly when people like Williamson were talking.


Anyway guys, Videogames don't cause violence. This uneducated bullshit needs to die.

Crying isn’t really emotion. Sometimes people just cry for the sake of it. It isn’t necessarily sadness, just... crying.

[Rojava Free State]

The majority of Baby Boomers don't play video games or grew up in an era where it wasn't a big thing, but if they have lots of influence in government, it is easy enough for them to simply blame video games than to do anything against guns which is more their thing.

They blame the thing with literally no connection to the shooting.
White supremacy? No common sense background checks? Nah, it's all Wii sports fault this guy killed people. Clearly there were no terrorists before video games.

This is literally their thought process

[Springfeal]

I played violent video games all the time in my childhood and I still do. Yet, I have never shot anyone nor stabbed anyone. The last time I committed an act of violence was when I beat the shit out of a bully in junior high school that was beating up one of my classmates that was in a wheelchair. Yes, that bully was that pathetic.

Your high school just beat mine in the race of shameful behavior

It was junior high (known in some parts as middle school) and I was in the 8th grade. But, yeah it was very shameful behavior. Especially since his idiot friends were laughing as he used that poor kid as a punching bag. Luckily for me the school authorities preferred to keep the whole thing in the dark so I got off with a warning. The dumb bully had to get stitches on his face and left the school shortly after.

[Fartsniffage]

Timesplitters 2 is the finest game ever made

Nah bro, Final Fantasy 9, Persona 5, Legend of Dragoon, and Crach Bandicoot series.

I'd agree with you. But then we'd both be wrong.