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JcFerggy:
It turns out that my research paper has been moved to Monday, but I need some help. According to my teacher, I need to have both sides of an argument, but I'm sort of close minded on the matter.

I believe that the relationship between violence in games and violence in real life is small. People have been violent in the past, so whats different about now? I believe that video games are also a great help to parents; in the way that you know where they are on a Saturday night.

The problem I have is trying to think of an argument against this. What are some examples that violence in video games make people in real life violent as well. I can see maybe violent games on young children could be a problem, but need some more examples.

So ya, what is your opinion on violent games?

kraid:
Video games or any other media cannot make people violent.
They can give violent ppl only a template on how to express that violence.
If there were no Videogames, they would get their inspiration elsewere e.g. in movies or out of books.
The real cause of the violence can be found almost everytime in the social environment of the ppl.
Politicans who blame media for violence are just trying to find a scapegoat, course they are unable to solve the real problems.
It's easier to blame and restrict videogames, then to get rid of unemployment, poverty and other things like that.

Maybe some of them also belive that's right course they don't play games anyway and they got an totally wrong impression on it.
It's just something very unplesent for them, so they don't care if it would be completly gone.
I mean someone who does not listen to let's say rap music, wouldn't care or even be glad, if it would be restricted by law.
So that's just the conflict of generations (same as with Rock music, Movie vs Books) this time fought on our heads.
In a few decades noone will blame videogames anymore, course we'll be the ones who are blaming the youth to be more violent.
I just don't know what we are going to restrict then.

PeskySaurus:
This isn't exactly a research grade answer, but I would like to note that I started playing Catacombs 3D (precursor to Wolfenstein) before I was old enough to talk, much less wipe my own ass, and I am not in the least bit violent. I have a collection of fire arms, but I am extremely strict about gun safety, and I hope I am never forced to use them against anything other then paper and clay. Both my brothers are in the same boat as me, and one of them is practicing Buddhist study and meditates with Thai monks. He still likes Grand Theft Auto, Doom, and Mortal Kombat, but he detests real life violence.

If you want an opinion from the other side, just interview Jack Thompson. Although... I don't think he's even a lawyer anymore, they kicked him from the bar or something.

VC:
I believe a complete failure to raise children causes violence.  Violent video games only lead to violence if violence isn't taught as something that is acceptable only in video games and films.

1Rusky:
Bad people come about because their parents didn't do their job or something traumatic happened to them in their lives. There's just more bad people today because of the drug problems in the 60's/70's as people were having kids when they shouldn't have and thus those children didn't get the parenting needed for functioning properly in life. Idiots just point to video games as a scapegoat, like Hilary Clinton.

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