Do Games Make People Violent?

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Well, it is a general tendency to think that games can make people violent, especially those who play a lot of battle or combat games. However, there are no concrete evidence that games actually make people violent. In other words killing people in games does not necessary make people killers in real life.
 
I completely agree with you. I've played plenty of combat games and but I'm not really violent in real life. In fact, those kind of games can be a healthy outlet for stress and aggression.
That's a very great point. That's not how it works. Just because someone plays violent games doesn't mean they'll become violent in real life.
 
It might cause some anger, but most what the media tries to say about games is false. I don't think games increases anger for most people.
Games doesn't increase anger but it can bring lack of control especially when one is being defeated in the game. Games can also tame someone by helping in controlling the anger always coming up when being defeated.
 
It might cause some anger, but most what the media tries to say about games is false. I don't think games increases anger for most people.
Yes, when you lose the game, you might get angry, you might even lose temper but that is just for a short time, you will soon forget your emotions. It is a common behavior in a lot of people but this does not necessarily make people violent
 
Yes, when you lose the game, you might get angry, you might even lose temper but that is just for a short time, you will soon forget your emotions. It is a common behavior in a lot of people but this does not necessarily make people violent
Those people that continued to be angry or lose their temper after the games have a big problem with them. Being violent requires to see a therapist because it wasn't games that caused it.
 
I don't think games make people violent and that their natural tendency would be to become violent. What makes them violent is a different story...

What I do think is that violence in video games normalizes it and those tendencies can come out more or be more prone to coming out in arguments that are away from video games.

A good way to make this argument is through pornography.
 
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I don't think games make people violent and that their natural tendency would be to become violent. What makes them violent is a different story...

What I do think is that violence in video games normalizes it and those tendencies can come out more or be more prone to coming out in arguments that are away from video games.

A good way to make this argument is through pornography.
Pornography have more negative effects on the person consuming it than video games. It can even influence your sex life to act like they do in those porn but I'm not so sure if you can carry out exactly what you do in some video games in real life.
 
but I'm not so sure if you can carry out exactly what you do in some video games in real life.
That's only because pornography affects things behind your wall while acting out video games can have more real-life consequences. It would have to take someone who doesn't obey the law, understands the law, doesn't think the law applies to them, thinks they're above the law, etc.

Perhaps, maybe, it affects sociopaths/psychopaths/narcissists more than it would a normal and rational-thinking person. However, video games could bring out those tendencies, especially since some mental illnesses are developed during adolescence. So, their experiences through video games early in life could cause the underlying mental illness to come out so that they then act out later in life.

I think there needs to be clinical/studies done on this so that parents are more aware and knowledgeable. Though, I don't think it would be a fair study of how much money is involved in video games. We'll likely only see it later, when it's so apparent that we can't ignore it, as we did with doctors recommending smoking to doctors appalled that you would consider smoking over the span of decades.
 
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