by Hunter Barnes

Created on: April 18, 2008

Does violence in video games contribute to real life violence? I say NO. Violence in video games is a fairly common thing... but violence is a less common thing. If Video games contribute to real life violence then everything shown should be contributed to violence... Your favorite movies to violent! Your favorite series to violent! All of this is illogical nonsense. Violence in video games is unreal so we can not even try to compare to to real life.

If someone was hit in front of you would it make you want to go play a reckless game? I think not! So when someone is hurt in a virtual world it does not create the sense of hurting or evil inside of the host who is playing it. Violence in video games does not contribute to real life violence because the only things that contribute to real life violence are thing to be unspoken of.

People who play violent video games do not just become violent. In order to commit a crime you need more inspiration then just a virtual showing of it. You would not go jump off of a bridge just because you saw it happen on the t.v. from you favorite actor! So why would you do something just as horrific as that from a violent video game? You wouldn't!

When you go to a church do you think of the priests and holy men of playing "holy games"?
the answer is no. Thus when you go to a jail most would assume that because they are here they must have done something violent to get here (obviously), but here is where most people are wrong... they think that because they played rough video games they were transformed into rough people. Most people over look the fact that most of the problem come from the parents of the criminals not from their games. This is like blaming the gun for shooting someone instead of the person... It does not make any sense at all... even though the gun shot the bullet, the person pulled the trigger... the underline cause of violence cannot possibly be violence in video games.

So when people try to convince other people that violent video games are a major cause of criminal acts of society prove them wrong. Imagine your on a court stand getting blamed for a sinful act you did not commit! Then imagine you being sentenced because you played a violent video game when you were young. This illogical talk is agonizing to hear. To wrap it up it would be blasphemy to say that violence in video games contributes to violence in real life... just as it would be blasphemy to say that playing a "purely good" game would make that person end up being the next Gandhi.

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