Violent Videogames Harmful or Innocent You Decide
... Most people think that allowing children to be violent in games is like giving them permission to take what they learn and apply it to real life. Violent videogames makes adolescent more aggressive and violent in life. Recently the world itself has become more violent. Some may say it’s due to videogames but others say it also come from society itself. ... In recent studies they have found that repeatedly playing violent videogames can in fact make you become more aggressive in the future. ... Why are videogames so violent? ... The dangers of playing such violent games are more harmful to adolescents than to adults. Recent studies done by NCTV showed that nine out of twelve subjects studied, mainly normal children and adolescents, on the impact on violent videogames, showed harmful affects. While this study has shown that playing violent videogames does not manipulate a psychotic trauma, it does show a short-term increase in violent aggressive behavior (Cesarone). One reason that kids develop a short-term aggressive period while playing videogames is that when one plays, for example, a first person shooter (FPS) game, one takes on the role of that character and is able to make whatever decisions or course of actions he or she wants to make. ... You kill if you want to kill or not, just like real life, we decide our own actions, and that closely imitates life. ... Some might disagree with these studies that videogames increase violence.