Ban this sick filth? Video games are a hugely popular pastime in Europe. Among young Europeans aged 16-24, fully 80% of young men and 61% of young women say they play games regularly. And, particularly as technology develops and games find a bigger audience, critics argue that gaming can be an important cultural medium, and should be considered as expressive as films, television and literature.
But video games are all about shooting and killing things, right? Well, it’s true that some (in fact, a small minority) of video games contain graphic violence. But there are also violent movies, books and TV shows out there. Is the fear of violent video games yet another moral panic, of the same sort that blames all aspects of pop culture for the disintegration of society? Or is there something specific in the medium of gaming that can make the impact of violence more tactile and ‘real’?
As part of our Debating Europe Schools series, we’ve been taking questions from students from across Europe to policymakers and experts for them to answer.
Curious to know more about violent video games and their impact on the behaviour of children? We’ve put together some facts and figures in the infographic below (click for a bigger version). 
So, what do the experts say? We had a question sent in from Alexter, a 4th year student from the Athneée Royal Victor Horta in Brussels. She wanted to know if there is any evidence that video games make teenagers violent.
To get a response, we put this question to Tom Chatfield, a British author, commentator and designer whose work focuses on games and technology. Here’s what he had to say:
To get another perspective, we also took Alexter’s question to Daphne Bavelier, a cognitive researcher at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. How would she respond?
Finally, we spoke to Christopher Ferguson, an Associate Professor and Chair of Psychology at Stetson University, Florida, who specialises in the psychological effects of violence in video games. How would he describe the current research into video game violence?
Perhaps the evidence that video games make people more aggressive is inconclusive, but is there any evidence that they make people more antisocial? We had a comment sent in by Nando, who was concerned that video games in general (i.e. not just violent games) might harm the development of social skills in children. Is there any evidence of this?
We asked Christopher Ferguson to respond:
Do violent video games make people more aggressive? Do video games in general harm the development of social skills in children? Or do they improve creativity and help people unwind after a stressful day? Let us know your thoughts and comments in the form below, and we’ll take them to policymakers and experts for their reactions!
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Do porn film make people more sex?
perfect explanation
Love this answer. Because of course they do. I mean you know how much sex Intel’s and awkward teenage boys get. and you know how many people joined Isis because they played wii sports one time. A lot.
fix your English
Short answer – no
No! It’s a false matter!
Yes they do! They blunt the senses! They promote the idea that “to solve problems one pulls a gun” or “a few punches”. Especially in young people who are going through their formative years.
This has been studied by many professionals and the deniers are only those who financially benefit from the “war game business”!
Yes, children will want to play games more when they start. Dopamine, psychological difference, and many more factor though will contribute to whether or not they become violent. Are they an idiot who believed in fairy tales until they were sixteen? Then they may become more violent. Any teen who can tell the difference will most likely not experience any change mentally.
What is your problem? Children know not to go around punching and shooting people!
I joined isis after playing wii sports you are fully correct.
Yes they do! They blunt the senses! They promote the idea that “to solve problems one pulls a gun” or “a few punches”. Especially in young people who are going through their formative years.
This has been studied by many professionals and the deniers are only those who financially benefit from the “war game business”!
What utter nonsense. Studied by what professionals exactly? Professional religious folks I suppose.
Nando pulling a gun out on someone or fighting has been around for many years even before video games made a huge impact in society. If you agree with the comment you just made I can see you would also answer yes to violent TV shows, news, and books. Video games don’t kill people, people kill people. Teenagers back then even fist fought out of school in time. People through ages fought to settle something and also teens and many different people fought. If video games made everyone murderous and crazy the population would shrink. I don’t recommend fighting to settle something.
So please tell me what video game did Adolf Hitler play?
Do space documentaries make people austronauts?
No, but banning things people like does.
Oppressive social and work relations make people aggressive, not video games. Address the real issues.
Not sure if they make them aggressive, but they certainly make them like guns and battles. In some extreme cases, the players become like trained soldiers. Together with Hollywood movies that are also favouring violence and battles or weaponry, it is like a proportion of the population is preconditioned to become marines or soldiers.. And in some countries like USA, in a constant mode of war, this is very beneficial. They have no shortage of people that would love to go out there and shoot out! They are loving it. In other countries though people are taking their compulsion for killing against animals or in some other cases, often again in the USA, they just freak out and go on a rampage killing innocent pupils at schools. America and the rest of the world must understand that investing so heavily in the arms industry and marketing these games, have side effects: the death of innocent people in the hands of disturbed individuals.
I’ve played violent video games for many long years and still do not think, that violence will solve my problems, nor do I feel any urge to punch or shoot anyone. Nor did it make me like weapons or battles in any way, since I have a proper understanding of what is real and fantasy. And there is a huge difference between thinking about something and acting upon it.
As an IR major and a wholehearted fan of almost every advanced technological field -weapons included, even without my gaming past- I am still completely aware that violence, is a bad answer to most problems of society and absolutely no answer for anyone’s personal issues. I’ve never been a fight, never want to be and the last thing I want in Europe is another armed conflict.
As of weapons, despite being interested in the field, I am the one who would opt for even stricter gun laws in Europe. In my opinion live weapons aren’t meant to be available for anyone besides hunters and law-enforcement, maybe only with some extreme exceptions. These aren’t lawless times anymore.
The US is a unique example in this regard, gun violence and availability are running rampart, because the frontier mentality have stuck, both in minds and laws. The US armed forces, being an important matter of national pride and work opportunity, does contribute this aswell. Just as the shockingly large equalities and gaps in society, which gives way to the birth of many delusional individuals, who might later easily get their hangs on weaponry.
Fortunately Europe is different in many regards, stricter gun laws, more consolidated societies, easier law-enforcement coverage and a much less pronounced arms culture, does not allow for the thriving of such violence and probably never will. And games won’t change anything on that either.
We have much more prominent and dangerous issues at hand, with the rise of nationalist extremism, aswell as the immigrant and economic crisis.
It depends on the family and education,social environment and self esteem……it’s hard question…..
Coupled with violence portrayed in other media it definitely contributes to desensitizing the public toward death, killing, war etc. and ones first reaction when presented or put in such situations definitely becomes skewed. When violence ceases to become shocking it is obscene. In the movie Commando Arnie dispatches 81 people with an array of methods. Your kill count at the end of the level is also 81. News report a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad with 81 dead. And you never blink once.
only the lag! :D
i hope so… we need it
We live in a video game, perhaps we are part of it
You play Sims lot, funny!
No, i don’t think so. Mabye it can hurt children because they are to young to understand why they musn’t emulate those games but if you’re more than 16 and you become aggressive just playing a game you probably have your own psychological prombems.
Yep
No. Same goes with movies.
When i was kid i have watched “Rembo 3” and other violent movies, but do i shoot people in the streets?
Society and bad parenting makes people violent.
Does ISIS, Boko Haram and Al-Shabab have played lot of violent games or why do they are so violent?
If you want to ban something, ban religion!
How that sounds? ;)
I Think that this fact has been answered by scientists many decades ago. Of course it does.
yes it do
Nope, and has been definitely proven on multiple occasions.
why is this even being debated? Aren’t there published empirical studies on this? Do Japan and Korea (the world’s top gaming nations) have high rates of violent crime?
Yes.
No, austerity policies and TTIP make people hungry and aggressive.
no. in another way, no
Yes
NO
Absolutely no. I played Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Age of Empires, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter etc. for years… But I’m not aggressive person and I don’t show tendency to any violence (physical, psychological etc.) This is a stiuation about character of individuals. What kind of family does person live in? How is her/his friends? Does he/she has religional tendency? So, only video game isn’t enough to state aggressiveness or violence tendency.
may be some intolerant but no agressive.
As Mr Avci states, it is more about the context than the games specifically. Considering how many that are playing video games the level of violence should be much higher, should it not?
On the contrary, they are a very efficient cathartic mechanism.
NO.
NO what is far more dangerous: sitting passively staring at a screen looking at commercials, soaps and believing the bullshit from main stream media/news channels
hell no,whats this question how can the game make u agresive haha
you don’t need the word “violent” in there. Try to interrupt anyone with a digital device in their hands…
I was never into video games. I can understand that some can be influenced, but would be from anything else. But I find it amusing that you want to ban violent video games while we live in a world where reality is more violent than fiction. How about we ban the violence in the real world first and then maybe we can hold hands while smelling flowers and ban everything else.
no !!!
they simply alienate youngsters from reality!!!
Games, no! Lag, yes!
no
Most probably, but those who are agressive are agressive allready,and they search such games afterwards.
No, and althoght this was the case, the government shouldn´t forbid them. Our freedom comes first.
No doubt about it! I have the advatage that I’m a woman, so I’ve escaped them… My native agressivity is less pregnant, you know? But there is a clue here. My professional background is for making weapons and I used my knowledge to make bio-medical apparatus, you also know this?
Sure it does…it makes them insensitive to violence…..they get used to it.
physical and psyhical inactivity frustates a person and thus makes it react violent to exterior stimulus…. not videogames !! videogames just come where people can find no other activity !! shure they have an impact on young minds … where games are too realistic, but that is due to lack of education!! videogames understood as videogames(fiction) are the greatest imagination exercise … and should be improuved … !! and introduced in schools as … virtual reality … like sexology, religion and other social factors … mabe … besides virtual reality …. artificial inteligence is a factor as well that should be taken very hard in consideration … another touchy subject …
Games don’t make us violent. Lag does.
I don’t think that these games are beneficial to or for anyone, but to each his own… just not in my home !
Lag does
That’s not really a question of opinion. That’s a job for psichologistas…
Haha video games? Right……
Not the real life war machine that’s been on the news killing for your freedom forever
It’s only an excuse not to see the real problems that cause violence, like corruption, poverty etc.
If anything games provide a safe outlet for frustration, just like music, movies, etc
Yes it does but its Americas modern war facility! Any ideas on how to avoid them and still build an advance army to protect our nations then please go ahead and let us know how!
No, Violent Games are fine. Just Educate the Users and especially the young ones
Yes, but not only violent video games.
No
Stupid politicians and their mistakes makes good citizens agressive =) ! For video games, the problem is in the head of the player.
No it doesn’t make people more aggressive.
Yes, violent games make people who play then more aggressive and like almost all games, more nervous and frustrated. This exhausts their nerves and ability to judge, not to mention that the only skills you get is to kill. Some of them are no longer able to make the difference between games and reality and do the same things in real life because video games do not show the ugly, scary and devastating nature of war. You get killed, press any key, and here we go again… unlike real life. Once you get kiied in a game, you should not be able to play that game anymore! I think that there should be strict regulations for such games and programmes to encourage the creation of all other types of games. Physical activity in real sports is the answer.
Yes, that’s right!
Of course it does. It doesn’t mean gamers will go out on a rampage after a while, but some, particularly children, might be affected in their perception of reality. It’s like guns, not every owner is likely to shoot someone, however the more people own guns the bigger the odds are that some will misuse it.
Many people make the mistake that video games is just an entertainment tool, it is more than that. It is like reading a book, books offer ideas, messages, personal or collective ideas and perspectives of individuals and societies alike as well as entertainment. The video games are a modern version of the book, the only difference is that they rely on a graphical interactive environment, their creators are not only focused on graphics but also on the content of the game, that content offers the core that is more important than its graphics. The hint that consumers haven’t taken yet is that they need to face that content with a critical view(like reading a book or a newspaper) by admiring at the same time(without focusing solely on them) the realistic graphics, a great portion of that content is a reflection of our real world around us and bears some of the ideas or expectations of their creators or in general how they see our world in the present and in the future. Video games can be educative if they offer open ideas and promote critical thinking and universal values in a fairly complex environment(for example some are showing how unfair is a discrimination against race and nationality or against homosexual people by offering the user the choice to proceed with the discrimination or not, showing at the same time the results of that action either in an instant or later in the game, those games are called RPG(Role Playing Games)). Many say that video games are diminish our imagination but that is not true because it can only happen partialy if you solely focus on the graphics, but if you go beyond them, to the content, then by definition you use your imagination. For example let be more specific, the above picture of the post is from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 1(for those who don’t know) lets try to put ourselves in the place and time of the game’s character, how would we feel if we were to face so much shooting and death?, would we shoot an Arab?(in the end the realistic graphics enhance this effect), the creators of this game gives you a hint of the failed foreigh policy of the US as well as the monsters that this produced in the specific area(Middle East) in league with religious extremism(the game shows a version at the beggining of what is known today as the Islamic State and the results of that collition as the creators saw it then(it was publiced in 2007), also later series of the game highlihted the colition of interest between US, Europe and Russia). My point is you can’t ban video games, they offer greativity and jobs to people , what is needed is to introduce critical thinking to their users, for instance I’m in favor for the parents to play with their children video games in order to help them go beyond the graphics or more players to be playing as a team in a game promoting for example teamwork and of course we must highlight the importance of age ratings for the games.
With no doubt about it!!!
The worse thing to entertain kids those days .
Religion is worse. See: Syria, Iraq etc…
YES.
Religion makes people agressive. The two worst of them are christianity and islam, two ideologies that have caused more misery, killing, slavery, colonization and oppression of women/gays etc… than all other ideologies combined.
People who play video games have likely killed less than 1,000 people in world history. The count for religion is north of 200 million.
In my view, the bible and the quran should be banned as books that promote hatred, slavery and extreme violence against non-believers.
Please tell me this whole ‘video games are evil’ nonsense from the USA isn’t coming here.
Oh you are so original and intelligent! And you think people will just instantly stop instinctual feelings of anger, and hold hands once Christianity and Islam are banned yes? Especially in a world where resources are depleting faster than ever before, and globalisation will turn everything that was once genuine and unique about the human race into a pile of worthless uniformed bilge.
Are you jealous in people who believe in a metaphysical reality? Where you, yourself only believe in what your useless senses can observe and measure?
The Bible and the Quran promotes hatred, slavery, extreme violence?!?!, Have you read Mein Kampft?, The Communist Manifesto?, Crime and Punishment?, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion?, The 120 Days of Sodom?, A Clockwork Orange?, On the Origins of Species?
Your argument is bad. Humanity is the reason for violence, Humanity!, are you implying that people can’t make there own decisions, that they don’t have free will?
@PDS
Why would I be jealous of people who need a fantasy friend to ‘guide’ their lives? I am not jealous, but contemptuous of such people.
Yes, the bible and the quran specifically and repeatedly promote and glorify enslaving unbelievers, or outright killing them. There are several websites that have listed all the ‘violent’ verses from both of them. Sure, modern day christians and muslims are trying to present sanitized texts and attempt to explain away all the biblical/quranic violence.
Maybe you can answer me the question: why did Muhammad have an entire tribe of Qurayza jews killed to the last man, woman and child? If you know the answer, you’ll understand why islam has generally speaking always been violent throughout its history. Same for christianity, what was done to the inhabitants of the ‘promised land’ when the ‘chosen people’ were told to go there? Exactly, they were all killed. I’d love you to try and deny it.
Exactly where in the Communist Manifesto does it specifically glorify mass killing like it does in the bible and quran? And as for Mein Kampf, nazism was a surrogate religion with Hitler as its prophet (self-proclaimed, he referred to himself as such).
Many people apparently excercise their free will to follow a religion and do the killing that the holy books so warmly advocate. But then again, religion and free will don’t go well together, since religions demand you give up free will and do as the religion commands.
Depends upon a person. The ones with more maleable minds are at heightend risk.
The TROIKA and Anglo-Saxon high finance & freemasonry makes people aggressive.
I think so… and we have contiuos violence in movies, news etc
Video games are not more violent than breaking news
When I first saw this article, I was going to lash out and defend the gaming environment, to point out how there is no conclusive proof of causation between games (of the violent variety) and tendencies to violence, to describe how we (gamers) are simply victims stereotyping made by people who haven’t got the first clue about the medium, and who’s entire image of gaming is that of the shooter stereotype. But no, I won’t go into that, I find that it’s a trap, and that gaming is being pulled into it because it’s an easy target for the media and the scaremongers that do it. I will instead talk about the good games do. I think people should talk about this as well, talk about how a game like Foldit (a game that presented protein folding as a puzzle) managed to bring together tens of thousands of players, regular people, people like you and me, who ended up solving in 3 weeks a problem that vexed scientists for 10 years (links at the end of the post)! Maybe we should also talk about how MMORPGs bridged cultural gaps, how year after year gaming communities from these games have gathered millions of dollars worth of aid as donations for people far away that they never met. Maybe we should talk how world events such as violence in Ukraine or the Middle East, events that are foreign to someone sitting in their sofa watching the evening news, have turned into a tangible, real human thing, because it affected someone they played with hundreds of kilometers away. We should talk about games like Civilization, teaching the history of the world. The dialog should be about games as an educational, cultural and scientific medium, as well as an art form, as they always have been. Some of my favorite gaming experiences are those when a certain moment in a game changes something about my worldview. In this medium, we cannot simply be spectators to events that unfold. They force us to confront our own actions, and that also forces us to some amount of introspection. And truth be told, every single person that has played videogames for an extended amount of time can relate at least one empathetic experience they had within a game. That is the power that games have, they allow us to be a little bit in someone else’s shoes, to experience something that we would normally never experience in the world. Yet, every single time, the only discussion about videogames is about violence. Even this discussion is misguided, in my opinion. It is absurd to demand an artistic medium to not approach violence. Hatred, violence or anger are a primal part of who we are, and it is absurd to demand for an artistic medium to not approach them. Ask yourselves this: would the World be a better place without movies like the Godfather or Terminator? Would it be a better place without books like the Iliad, or without poems like On Flanders Fields? Obviously not. The question should not be IF an artistic medium should approach violence, but rather if by doing so it touches on something of value or not. I am sure we can point out to videogames that do this in a very, very wrong way, but that can be applied in the same way to films, music or literature. If creations in all these artistic mediums can be assessed for their merits, why can the same standard not be applied for games by the very same people? All in all, different types of entertainment have been pointed at in the past as the bane of children’s education and the reason why the world is speeding to it’s doom, from Elvis Presley’s music to Jazz to comic books, and to be frank, it’s about time this neophobic, frightened attitude stops. The gaming world I grew up with was one in which it didn’t matter if someone was dyslexic, if she was of a different race or different religious belief, what her sexual orientation was, if she was shy, or had a lower socio-economic status; anyone could be received with open arms and be an equal part. I don’t really know any other medium that does that. I think people should take a step back and reassess their knowledge about gaming before lashing out with this tired old argumentation about causal violence in videogames. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/foldit-gamers-solve-riddle/ http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/31/players-cancer-diagnosis-unites-world-of-warcraft-community/
No. It’s a made up idea thsts invented by parents who have alienated kids that have issues. I’ve played hundreds of games in my life and none of them has ever made me think ‘I will knife him/her one day’. Age restriction and limit to how much of their lives your kids spend shooting and yelling at the screen is a different thing. They are there for a reason. Antisocial behaviour comes from addiction and that is parental matter.
The irony here is that this whole ‘video games make people agressive’ meme comes from religious people who obviously forgot the texts of their favorite religious book and the history of their favorite religion. No major religion has ever been about peace apart from peace defined as an absence of opposition to religion.
This article is outraging……’do newspaper push to murder?’ ….come on people !
I remember WW2.. It all started with a video game.
And the war in Vietnam too.
Not to mention WW1!
FFS ppl, games doesn’t make the world violent!
Capitalism does
Ban first the Ukrainian neonazis.
They are the true sick filth
No. You actually release your anger by killing many virtual ennemies instead of that one that you wanted to in real life.
Why, do you believe MUSLIMS, ALBANIANS or GUPSIES do play a lot of VIDEO GAMES??? But they are the most VIOLENT CRIMINALS of ALL!!!
It depends I would say.
No doubt about it … Of course YES!!!
Utter codswallop, this is something dragged up at regular intervals by the sensationalist press.
Every time some young person goes on a shooting rampage in the US they like to quote that “they spent long hours playing violent video games”
Well how about the 99.9999% of young people who play violent video games yet don’t go on to murder people?
A person with psychopathic tendencies is always a risk to others whether they play video games or not
Politics make people agressive not video games
I tend to think they give people an exhaust for aggressive feelings?
Games also teach especially children to be agressive.
Brussels should create a tool box for by the end radicalism and violent games video new future generations deserve to be respected with human rights
A poll? Since when is a poll of peoples opinions a valid way of establishing a causal relationship between a pastime and behaviour?
There is no scientific consensus linking violent video games to higher levels of aggression in either young people or adults. If you even want to consider banning something, then the underpinnings of that ban need to be scientific.
Stress is making people violent, and stress is caused by a great number of factors…
Poverty make people violent
Yes
I think different people react different ways. This is a question I had to debate academically, and yes some people are more vulnerable to media than others. After carefully considering it and analysing it, I came to the conclusion I do get more aggressive and anxious if exposed to violent games and media in general, it can be seen straight after I finish playing. Some people are incredibly sensitive to visual media.
Yes violent games are responsibile for 100 000 deaths per day. You are starting to give us dumber and dumber questions srsly…
I hope this is satire
I don’t have opinion about the games, because I newer had one , but I know the war zone is making people to become violent .
Do violent video games teach one to be calm? To reason in the face of obstacles? Or do they teach to punch and shoot people out?
Do they teach people to negotiate? Or do they teach to use violence to solve problems?
Have you thought of people over the age of 25 or are you including children in their formative years? At the age when they need to learn how to deal with adversity? Have you asked teachers, social workers, psychologists and sociologists?
If you can answer these questions then you may be able to answer the question of causation. Or at least be a step closer to the answer.
I wonder this Debate for which side it is, is it a paid Article to increase publicity of Video Games?! the only professionals and statistics knows and report of is the rapid increase sales of video games, on different platforms.weather the game teach violent or Drug abuse. I have been dealing with Game reviewers and many many video game players in my life, I can give this impression about them, ( They are clam, cool, chilled out, Relaxed and Happy from inside from the reward system they are gaining psychologically from video games, let’s be honest they might be little un-social due to the many hours spent alone or with few people around. but BIG Advise for my fellow Games, Don’t Make gaming is the main thing in life or you are lost, but try to make it a hobby in free time while you go do bigger like whatever you think it is big.
No, lag does.
people used to play cowboys and idians,….or soldiers and we had cap guns etc,….but we knew it was a game. How does a video game differ except that you’re sitting on your ass rather than running aroud??
Yes! Of course.
People, this is a serious question. My wife started to play farmville on facebook some years ago. She has now left me and become a farmer. And my daughter is constantly breaking all the candies I buy them into pieces.Gamers are known to be one of the most violent kind of people, they start talking about the game with their friends and filling your facebook with game requests. They’re are normally really outgoing and put themselves constantly in harm’s way
Everyone knows it. Its bad those gammes for all of people. Why still exists? These is a bussiness here to many people dies in real live. Just look what appenned in South Carolina!
Germany makes ppl violent … Ww1. Ww2 ……. Now the sack of Greece Ireland Portugal ….. Maybe that can be made a game
That is because the Germans are the most productive people in Europe, why does everyone else always have to lag behind?
Now stop crying and get to work!!
They should not be on the market!! Violent movies, videos, video games etc. For what good to have them? Satisfied whose needs…?
You are bastards how the game is making people violent.Its the things that politicians doing in secrecy
definitively
Second time in a week. Has this page been hijacked by 70 year old ultra-conservatives?
No, I don’t believe this at all. What person have you known to be a serial killer all because of violent games?
YES THEY DO.
Does a one legged duck swim in circles?
Tetris
High class psychologists can give you an exact answer. Please stop these social experiments
Yes, they also dehumanize people!
Yes, as anime and manga’s did in the past, in fact, I had read many manga’s and watch anime during teenager and now I’m writing from a prison, because I’m extremely violent… I kill people everyday, excepting on weekends…
PS: being ironic
I can’t comment I don’t play video games….
I don’t buy the “stressful day” bit. Most kids play at anyt ime of the day/week. There’s a clear lowering of our moral threshold. Those who want the real thing join IS… So, yes: shoot’em up “games” are a violent drug…
Do they make american police officers aggressive? or perhaps mopre racist?
Yeah,like before video games there wasnt enough violence already
No.
Most evidence points to a resounding: NO. Do people who commit violent crimes tend to playing violent videogames? Probaly. They also tend to sleep at night and probably like eating a hamburger from McDonald’s… Do you think those things make them violent?
Religion is far worse when it comes to inspiring people to violence. Especially when the ‘holy’ books specifically recommend terrorizing unbelievers.
I turn on the TV, i see bombing, blood, gore, and bits and pieces of human bodies rotting and decomposed at the NEWS !
And you complain about a game?
Have all the EU’s problems been solved?
Is Greece solvent? Has Russia left Ukraine alone and returned Crimea?
Did we turn back all the “refugees” from Italy and Greece that CHEAT their way into the EU’s heartland?
Oh right, we didn’t.
YES they do!
On the contrary. If they let steam off in the game, they probably don’t have to do it irl anymore.
Do video games in general harm the development of social skills?
Can someone explain how sitting in front of a PC screen, at the end of a frustrating day, holding onto a console of some sort, shooting people to solve some game obstacle, is going to develop social skills?
Games don’t make people aggressive per se, but maybe increase tolerance for violence by desensitization.
What’s with all that videogame hate lately?
Playing violent games since Castle Wolfenstein, have never felt the urge to kill somebody!
Violence video games are practes for Violent. Life….
no
No, but lag does xd
its simulating kill for real life
Too much violence on media and games tend to lead people to think that violence is normal and reduces empathy for other’s suffering.
Absolutely YES …
Politicians make ppl become aggressive
yes
i don’t play video games but i think it is a loosing of precious time…handcrafting is more productive, anti-stressing and creative. Playing video games could might be expressive of our inner world but why can we be expressive in real life, in real communication? I suspect is made to keep people under a control because they are afraid of real life themselves. Governments could be afraid of citizens want to express themselves and it is like giving a chance to expression that it could be given from the educational system and the common games children used to play in the villages with a few damages for the animals unfortunately.And it is quite worring to excist games you need violence to play and not a mood to understand better perhaps. If we hide the violence and not just talk even in the “air” and alone instead of persist on plaing games then we create a huge vacuum between ourselves and pressing things or persons on us. Dialogue is a better way
i don’t play video games but i think it is a loosing of precious time…handcrafting is more productive, anti-stressing and creative. Playing video games could might be expressive of our inner world but why can we be expressive in real life, in real communication? I suspect is made to keep people under a control because they are afraid of real life themselves. Governments could be afraid of citizens want to express themselves and it is like giving a chance to expression that it could be given from the educational system and the common games children used to play in the villages with a few damages for the animals unfortunately.And it is quite worring to excist games you need violence to play and not a mood to understand better perhaps. If we hide the violence and not just talk even in the “air” and alone instead of persist on plaing games then we create a huge vacuum between ourselves and pressing things or persons on us. Dialogue is a better way
Government is the #aggressor not a /video~game.
It depends if self discipline still there….
a clear YES !!! 😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈
yes, if you go to deep in to violence , i end to become violent too
No. Games cannot make people more violent. On the other hand, governments can; as was proven countless times through out history.
thats why Japan and Korea are the world’s two most violent nations. right?
No. Violent social environment makes violent individuals. Games are not ‘violent’ even though violence is portrayed because the game environment is foremost digital through which the social tube / chat is channeled. Social environment is the relations between planetary surface activity i.e. interaction between individual entities. Violence portrayed in the game needs a gamer to activate the digital field of influence and thus if the gamer is violent, then the behaviour shows it in-game toward other gamers. Certain games to certain individuals just bring their social urges to surface and the outcome depends on how well the individual understands existence.
No. It is like meditation
There is no scientific evidence that say that Video Games makes one agressive. And when you say video games, I must remind you that there are different genres.
I been playing Shooting and Action games since I was 5, I will never hurt or become angry over nothing.
Please think about that you can seperate between fiction and reality. If you can’t seperate these two different thing, then books, movies and tolled stories can also make one agressive. It is how your mind is constructed, and you can teach if what is reality and what is fiction. You may get emotional, both emotions from a medium, is not as real emotion you will experience in real life. E.g. You get sad over a carachter dies in a story, is not the same sadness you will feel if one of your parents dies. If you then can’t seperate these two emotions, then you might have psycological condition you will need to work with.
Video Games are a new medie after films. Before films made one agrerssive, before that Books where the medium. It is always eassiest to point at something you are not familiar with and give that the blame. Please be rational and research the topic before giving an answer. Seems like there is a huge misleading understanding of the topic.
It dumbs and numbs people down, if you get too much exposure to ti.
http://www.periodicoclm.es/articulo/politica/pp-no-encuentra-informe-situacion-financiera-castilla-la-mancha/20150710202918002288.html
Of course not. Agression is a natural inpulse. Most people wont act on it unless the benefit outweights cost.
No
lololo is that a joke?
no, don’t
No. They are their parents that don’t educate them that they do it.
No. It is not guilt of the videogames.. They are their parents that don’t educate them that they do it.
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Video game sales up, violent crime down = NO !
Now please start a relevant debate about Europe like ‘Will Italy be the next Greece’ ?…… & please stop calling us ‘Europeans’ it is very insulting. Thank you.
http://www.euractiv.com/sections/euro-finance/problems-mount-renzi-economy-stumbles-316873
Minecraft makes me wanna build awesome castles.
I know it is a kinda stupid way to show my point but…:
Watching TV programs about space makes me an astronaut?
Maybe..but what is sure ,is that today’s wars look more and more like video games (ex:drone attacks,bombardments. …etc)
http://www.welt.de/gesundheit/psychologie/article109762301/Ballerspiele-machen-auf-Dauer-immer-aggressiver.html
People perceive games differently so…
When you play “Fifa” on PS and you lose last second, then you might kill opponent!!
So, yeah, let’s ban football games. You see, that there are football and basketball hooligans. So ban real games first. Also ban boxing. Let’s ban everything.
When you play “Fifa” on PS and you lose last second, then you might kill opponent!!
So, yeah, let’s ban football games. You see, that there are football and basketball hooligans. So ban real games first. Also ban boxing. Let’s ban everything.
Yes.
Yes.
Digital image cannot become without social interaction. It is the social platform you should be conserned about, not the byproduct that cannot do nor emphasise what is not already there.
If you don’t want people to bestow violence upon another, make sure they won’t do so in the social realm because it is that realm in which we won’t respawn back. If you try to narrow the social problems in a digital realm, all it affects is the variety of digital content which we also use to educate ourselves.
When I was a kid, we used chase each other round with cap guns……it didn’t make us murderers or more aggressive. It was called ‘play’ .
Yes, I believe that, subconsciously, the ones who play these types of games become more aggressive. It is hard to prove this theorem, though, since the only way for a certain 100% proof for it would be the same person to live without playing the games and simultaneously play the games and keep track of the differences. However, having the results out of surveys and “experiments” with random people is enough to expose the effects of violent games. Even if, indeed, they had gotten creative, aggressiveness in their behavior was also extremely obvious. So, some food for thought.. Is creativity worth sacrificing calm behaviors? This is what the question should be rephrased in…
Jeez Debating Europe, might want to use a screenshot of a game a little bit more recent than 8 years ago?
Liora Sabot-Cat- Šta ti misliš? :P
Yes violent games, studies have shown, do have an effect on violence. The subconscious mind does not know the difference between what’s on the screen and what isn’t.
Your debilism make me agressive.
E.E.C. stay away from our lives.
Studies have been done that answer this question, and it’s a no.
I’ve played a lot of “violent” video games, and I’m pretty sure I got in LESS trouble because of it.
It’s a safe and fun way to let anger and frustration out, no real life victims.
Now, don’t blame kids that are 8 years old and receive games like COD or Alien and then act stupid, because their parents can’t see the age restriction written clearly on the box.
Also, some people have mental illnesses that predispose them to be easily influenced be it by movies, newspapers or video games.
If video games are banned, so should violent movies and tv shows.
No
In what context is a violent video game being used? To defuse accumulated anger? As entertainment? As a proxy to a violent response to some offense?
To defuse anger? I doubt it defuses anything.
As entertainment? Poor taste or lack of other activities/tools.
As a proxy? Because the other guy was bigger? This is dangerous ground!
Banning (everything) does much more damage than everything else.
Or better, let’s try it out in a more understandable example. Does zombie videogames makes people zombies? For god’s sake.
They can help but the problem is the kind of education that parents and society give to children.
After long years of “violent” gaming, I still haven’t really felt an urge to punch anyone or anything… So, I guess not.
yes of course
Ofc try to play lol
Instead of playing video games all day they would be far better off getting off their asses and getting a friggin job and contributing something to society
Hundred of thousand of illegal imigrants are at the gates of Europe, Putin’s army is in Ukraine, millions of teenagers uses drugs in every second and we debate about PC games.?…
why do people keep asking this stupid Tipper-Gore-type question? There are published empirical studies about it. Look at the empirical data (which says “no”), and stop asking for my opinion on this every two weeks
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thinking of the Eu and the money it wastes makes me FUMING
Yes
Yes …. :/
of course, that is scientifically proven!
I an 47, playing shooters since 1991 (still playing if I find the time). Hasn’t changed my personality. Relaxing and fun. The answer is clearly NO!
YES.
YES, absolutely YES and also do the different violent horror movies.
ofc not, make people smarter in strategy and always looking forward thinking “i can shot that woman with my sniper and this wind, easy”
well, no. Actually, games can be used to release stress.
yes, they do
No; for the 46374628th time… -.-
The map is not the territory, the game is not the reality.
Does Minesweeper count? :)
Well, technically yes but in reality it’s a no. Just like with everything , too much exposure of something can make you less and less affected by it. Like with porn, drugs, movies. Gamers who play violent games become more and more immune to them, meaning they won’t be shocked by violent scenes and they’ll probably seek games with more violence that the ones they already own. It doesn’t necessarily mean that they will actual perform any sort of violent acts in real life, or that the won’t be affected by them. There’s no evidence to support that.
For the thousand time: No.
For the thousand time: No.
It has influence in underating violence effects. May also normalize it and play with the concept that ” the bad ones” have to die. Life does loses its meaning as death is a reward in many video games.
It has influence in underating violence effects. May also normalize it and play with the concept that ” the bad ones” have to die. Life does loses its meaning as death is a reward in many video games.
Ohh come on when you playing violend games your nervous system is exploding most of the time… For example when they kill you you startin feel anger deep in you… So it makes you violent
NO, but corrupted and somnolent politicians DO!!!!
Lag makes gamers violent
Can the missions of peace bring stability in war fields with tanks and weapons? This is a question..
All video games and/or movies change the perception of reality
yes…but worse influense are the movies of violence like Usa …..young people are so aggresive playing Stalone and Heroes with guns in the real life
How many times are we going to ask the same question despite it being proven not true over and over again?
YES
Different people, different influences! Mentally unstable probably shouldn’t watch it! They can get ideas!
For all stupid people: do knives kill people?
This question can be stated otherwise: do aggressive people tend to play video games? Of course, both questions can be answered with yes
Can the missions of peace bring stability in war fields with tanks and weapons? This is a question..
É a realidade que faz isso…
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It might be a good idea to get everyone playing them, could be good practise for the Schengen area.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/german-jihadist-returns-from-syria-and-gives-testimony-a-1067764.html
this discussion again…. plenty of research done on the subject, it’s a NO
no.
NeuroMarketing agencies must know about it.
People who do not play video games should really leave video games alone. It’s that simple. And the answer is a resounding NO.
http://pluseurope.over-blog.com/
games, TV, movies, the same society, all promotes agressiveness.
No, but they can be addictive.
There are a lot of studies about this subject. People inform yourselves, its a NO… studies actually suggest that video games are benificial. according to Peter Gray Ph.D. it may cause Improvements in basic visual processes, Improvements in attention and vigilance,Improvements in executive functioning, Improvements in job-related skills,
No.
Better to kill virtual people than real ones…maybe…
1. “natural born killers” and unstable people : yes 2. small children : approx. 50% yes
never heard of a serial killer that got satisfied by a virtual game…
No
No – what makes people aggressive, low wages, Islamic jihadism, NATO, unemployment, inequality and illuminati.
NO! Greed and power do.
Most video games are made and produced in Asia.
Not all.
Lots of players are in Asia.
Also before video games was there no violence.
Also before Porn,
there where a lot of wankers squirting without porn.
Where are there the most amount of men killing raping torturing right at this moment in time.
Video games not really included….
Most video games are made and produced in Asia.
Not all.
Lots of players are in Asia.
Also before video games was there no violence.
Also before Porn,
there where a lot of wankers squirting without porn.
Where are there the most amount of men killing raping torturing right at this moment in time.
Video games not really included….
What’s the murder rate in Asian countries. Not much.
What’s the murder rape or beheading rate in Islamic countries.
Sharia outlaws music tv video games (sure a good: Call of duty, player will make a good shooter)
But he in real life is a nerd who spends time alone in room playing video games.
Yes video games are dangerous in a stupid sissy world….
nope. traffic does
Nope. People sick minds does. Drugs does. Not Vídeo Games!
The only thing that might make someone mad in a videogame is frustration.
Kids need to stop playing them games and being violent period.
Yes!
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Sure do, I played Donkey Kong for years & now wherever I go out I must jump over barrels & beat up gorillas.
Proof positive that games make you aggressive, but they do keep you fit though..
Next idiotic question please.
Yes!
Debating Europe really takes us as idiots!
yes i think they should be banned.
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One thing that does make people very aggressive though is the EU dictatorship .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRn5oohaJ28
They influence the social behaviour, but do not make anyone aggressive. If Y look around, then y’ll easily find aggressive people who actually know very little about computers and know nothing about aggressive games played on them.
Equilibrium is the answer, for almost everything in life.
are videogames the problem? what about reality?
It’s a way to relief the stress of daily routine.
Nope. Contrary, i think it is just good that they can express it in games instead on streats.
PS The Punisher and Carmageddon banned in the UK ? Sissies.
no, but lag does :))
no…
obviously
Nope
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It makes them “blasé “
No, cheaters and bad connection do :D
On a serious note, I don’t think so. Maybe in some special cases, but in those cases the problem is the person, not the game. In that case the game would just be a medium, an excuse for their actions. If anything, I find violent games to calm me down since I can be violent without hurting anyone and at the same time relieve anger.
Are we really debating this?
Bad parenting, real life difficulties, the recurring government oppression. That’s probably what make people aggressive.
Ps4 sold millions GTA sold millions, I don’t see millions of gamers killing and robing.
I do see people without educations and values killing and robing. And if it happen to be a gamer. “Ho my god games make peeople aggressive”
What a idiotic question is that??Do you remember a video game called ”carmaggeedon”?it Was published at 1997 if people copy wat they see in video games were are all those
Serial killers who whas playing carmaggedon wen they were younger? I don’t see any roadkill’s no Carnegie nothing? Why? How is that possible? All those TV expects are trying to convince as for the opposite are they wrong? Ts ts ts…… A can’t believe it….. :p
yes.
..they sure don´t make them more tender, peaceful and careful with others…
NO!
Sebastiaan Vranken Junker will take your Battlefield
NO , it is about religion : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7u5rXBJPdI
They have the potential to Do so.
But so do sports, board-games, watching TV, Facebook discussions,…
Video Games are Part fun, Part Art.
Both shouldn’t be banned, but studied, improved and embraced :)
Peace ✌
Nope
To me its the opposite. The same way death metal helps me calm down
Violent video games does’t make people aggressive. Lag does.
Are we turning into USA now?
I’d be bloody Satan in person by now if that was true :D
Violence in movies and games is good, it trains people to look at the world realistically for what it really is, a place full of blood and violence……
Still better for people to unleash their frustrations on video games than in the real world….
No!
We are not turning into anything different. Its just that is better to face with death and misery in order to avoid it then turn to violence in real world when ever its convenient. Cause whether you like it or not world is far from peaceful. Ignoring that or hiding in your emotional bubble will only harm you more once you are forced to deal with it. Cause there is no real way to avoid it.
I quit this page
No, of course not, that’s ridiculous… Who’s asking??? If you’re the so called “political elites”, well, when sh** hits the fan in Europe, consider it as “simulated training” for European youngsters defending their homelands… I’m sure you’ll thank them later!! (or maybe not, if you’re off to Panama, or something…) :-P (again, irony & sarcasm only!)
No. Period.
We didnt have video games 100 years ago but we were slaughtering eachother on battlefields at the time so you tell me
no !!!
ban stupid people, not games !
Yes
Maybe. Stupid, disgusting politics, mistreating the own citizens surely does.
No.
Not necessarily. It “helps” them take stupid decisions faster.
I’ve played Mario for some time now and everytime a turtle tries to steal a mushroom from me, I kill it. Does that make me violent?
Ha Ha, No don’t worry im sure Mario wasn’t the type of game they were talking about. Im sure killing a cartoon hasn’t really made you violent though…or has it?
YES !!!!!!!
Hahaha not really,they did studies on this .i play a lot of games and I’m fine.
Not true , as it all about the education of the children who has to play a video games,
and how he can deal with it without any harming or a mental proplems.
no. it does’nt.
I think that SOME games can make to violent.
Can you try another clickbait from the 90’s. This one will not work that much.
Lol how is this dead topic related to Europe?
Oh, I know what makes people more aggressive. F*ing austerity that is pushed on them. Also seeing how my fellow compatriots burn in a tower, because my govt and some greedy company tried to cut corners might piss me off a little.
Doubt Genghis Khan made his soldiers play violent games
No! They make them idiots!
Depends on the game.
Idiots? I learned history from Video Games such as CALL OF DUTY and MEDAL OF HONOR.
Thodoris Karamourat There are better ways to learn history…believe me
A study showed that reading the bible makes someone much more aggressive. No, kidding.
What makes you angrier: dying to a horde of violent aliens in Gears of War, or losing a close match to your taunting brother in the very non-violent Mario Kart? http://kotaku.com/why-most-video-game-aggression-studies-are-nonsense-1724116744
Definitely, it’s got an impact mostly on the life of a growing boy child. I could remember when growing u as a child after watching Japanese or Chinese confu film’s, when go out a begin to practice those skill we have just viewed, by fighting ourselves, that is when you WWF, I.e, world wrestling federation, they clearly state to viewers not to try this at home because the knew impacts it’s got on young people.
That does not prove causality, it proves correlation at best. But a lot of things have correlations and we live with and accept them.
Does Assassin’s Creed makes people good assassins?
Haha, not that I know of but it certainly inspired many to take up parcours.
“Isis simulator”, didn’t you see the news? Stef Kostov
Dovee?
No, that’s BS, although too much of playing video games is unhealthy and can make them virtual world addicts supplanting any real world interests or activities.
Can confirm. Ex wow addict Lmao.
If pacman ever affected anyone, people would go to dark rooms with repetitive music and eat different colour pills.
A question for statisticians. Non answers can be given without data. And the question is : out of 100 or 1000 or 10000 violence perpetrators, how many practice violent videogames?
Please lololo religion make people violente and aggressive, not a game plz
No, lag does
No, lag does
nope. if anything it provides a way to ventilate aggression.
Even if violent people play violent games it’s very unlikely that the games made them violent and more likely that theey were more violent to begin with.
You know what really makes me angry though? It’s not games. The stupid internet laws that keep threatening our freedoms online because some companies think their rights are more important and should override our personal rights.
Lest give an example
I like GTA, I can kill virtual people carácteres in the game:yes
Do I kill people in the real world?:No
I can rob a bank in the game?:yes
Do I go to the bank in my street and rob it?:no.
Can I steal a jet from the army? In the game yes, in real life no.
A game is far less complex then real life.
I games can give freedom of mind to a player and even help do develop qualities of question about right and wrong, but that also depend on the type of game.
So here is probably another one beside religion. Does football make people aggressive?
true mate. you can try to steal a jet from the army. but even if you make it alive to even reach the jet, it will be impossible to get it up in the air :-D
Who knows, but it’s for sure desensitizing the upcoming generations to think violence is normal.
Because the world was so peaceful before videogames ruined everything :(
Clearly, for toxic cigarets or even natural medicine herbs, we made big campaign, for stopping, warning, taxes, and forbidding most dangerous substances, should not it be the same for mind toxicity or addiction?
LETS START WITH TOXIC PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO, THEN TRY TO CONTROLE OTHER PEOPLES LIFES
oops caps…
right and toxic lobbies too they are the worst, that is why there is no limit and we have such spread of violence, as the virtual might be only one step without strong safe guards and ethical basis
Allah bilir. The sure is that German cortupted plutocracy make aggression in European citizens.
Go back to Bandura and Social Learning Theory, the BOBO Doll and ongoing modifications made to the original theory, a lot of the answer is there..although not exclusively
Violent games DO NOT make people violent. Lag does!
Violent games DO NOT make people violent. Lag does!
Nope, lag does.
Real world makes people aggressive.
Losing is what make people agressive. This question is easy.
People are violent thru what they live, not from what they see.
What games caused WW 1 and 2 ?
Policy, most dangerous game.
Violent games desensitize people to violence, particularly young ones.
Violent games give the image that conflict can be resolved by violence.
Violent images are the opposite of peaceful images.
Peaceful images elicit calm thinking about the problem at hand.
Violent images elicit violent solutions to the problem at hand.
Simply not true. Kids aren’t morons, they know a movie or a game isn’t real. I grew up playing Mortal Kombat and watching movies like Conan The Barbarian, Terminator I and II and the Die Hard series and I hate real-life violence and seeing suffering makes my heart break. It’s all about the up-bringing and the morality you get from it and your social surroundings.
A sample of one is not statistically significant. You should know that.
And you should know studies debunked your claim.
Indeed there is a lot of money being spent trying to debunk, not my claim, but the claim of those who study these behaviors.
#illuminati :O
May I ask a question? 1996 ” carmagedon ” was relished. It was a ultra violent video games that players had to ram a and kill pedestrians to gain points.
How many copies of this game was sold 100 thousand? 1 million? Hell i used to play it too ! So if so many people have played that game as teenagers and now are adults and if such video games make people more aggressive were is all the carnage? I don’t see anyone ramming pedestrians for fun I don’t see cars with blood splashes over their windshields. ..
Violent games desensitize people to violence, particularly young ones.
Violent games give the image that conflict can be resolved by violence.
Violent images are the opposite of peaceful images.
Peaceful images elicit calm thinking about the problem at hand.
Violent images elicit violent solutions to the problem at hand.
video games do not necessarily teach cruelty skills, but they affect on psychological levels, and makes cruelty, killing, violence and warfare more acceptable. What translates into real life as “possible solutions”
Only when they’re not working properly.
http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Quoted_sayings_in_the_Call_of_Duty_series
i leave this here.
No. European politics do.
Dont think so
[O] – People can’t become gay for watching Pride parades
[O] – People can become violent by watching violence on computer
* Sweating liberal meme inserted
I expect some statistics to answer….but it surely makes them more indifferent ,acceptable or “blasés” towards it.
Does porn make you be addicted to sex or have more sex?
No. Any sane, normal child knows it’s all made up and not real. And on the other side there are many real-life causes for anger in children – stress in the family and school, disputes with bullies and teachers, etc. Playing video games is probably the last thing that could make a kid have anger issues. And claiming otherwise is just avoiding the real problems.
Nope, depending on the game it could increase the teamwork spirit in the players. ;)
Dickheads cutting lawns at 8 in the morning make people aggresive
no. those people were already having aggresivity inside them. I don’t even think that it triggers them to become really aggresive. I also play some military strategy games, but I think that I would completely ‘suck’ as a real general…
Games don’t.
Bad internet connections do indeed.
It puts you on edge while you play “violent” games which you can basically reduce to fast gameplay fps in a realistic environement.
Even slow gameplay fps are difficult to get you off !
If you’re still aggressive afterwards, you got a fucking problem…
If someone takes video games into reality, it’s because those individuals already have a problem, that it makes them snap anytime, anywhere and for whatever reason. Video games might make some people go violent, but I don think it’s the real problem, mental health and the way the society deals with it is the real problem.
If you have other psychological issues, yes. Otherwise, no.
Ban them. We did not have these problems in the Middle Ages, it all started with video games.
I always found playing Grand Theft Auto gave me strong urges to plough vehicles into large groups of people
or do aggressive people play violent video games? This is a very double- edged question
No, video games do not make people aggressive. The question has been answered.
When i was a teenager i used to play a video game called ” carmagedon” for hours. ..17 years later I haved rammed any pedestrian wet..
When i was a teenager i used to play a video game called ” carmagedon” for hours. ..17 years later I haved rammed any pedestrian wet..
The younger, yes.
They were the cause of the Hundred Years War, I believe.
I heard Crusades were caused by Assassin’s creed
You can imagine how many video games Stalin played
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molim vas da se punim trkom zaletite na davora čihaka koji drži kitona u rukama
Not healthy people but most likely people with unhealthy social and/or mental issues.
I don’t believe they do. In my opinion they provide a much less chaotic outlet for young aggression to dissipate without causing actual damage.
Can’t say one remains unaffected
Personal experience? or just babbling?
Define aggressive for a better answer.
No one of the drivers of “Trucks Of Peace” play Carmagedon before action…
Actually it s the exact opposite
Violent wars and conflict propaganda makes people aggressive for sure.
not true … no statistical connection or causality was found that i know of..
Ok.
No, just microtransactions.
Yes they even commit suicide sometimes
Losing makes people agressive. Go play any highly competitive sport and you will reach the same conclusion.
Usually thrases get agressive after they lost. Pros know how to handle a defeat.
Logical flaw here: corelatio does’t mean causation.
Yes. Violent people like violent games. But not everyone who play violent games are violent.
Before games you blamed TV.
Before that you blamed Music.
Before that you blamed drama acts in theathers.
Before that you blamed books.
Before that you blamed folk tales.
And before that you blamed witches.
Just admit that some people just are violent without outside stimulant.
maybe the best answer!
I thought the cause was putin
.. oh wrong thread.
If i were a SJW i would say that you are racist. But since i am not an idiot: hat off! Best answer
EXACTLY.
Stop trying to find a pattern, yes violent games are being played by violent people BUT as well as by normal HOMO SAPIENS.
No. The history of the world is a history of violence and there weren’t any video games. There’s no proof this generation is in any way more violent than previous, so this whole pseudo debate is utter and complete idiotic fear-mongering
Life made people aggressive. Corrupt government and politicians made people aggressive. Poverty made people aggressive. Stop the stupid questions or maybe I will be aggressive also…
Sadly, it is a rhetorical question.
I play violent war games since my age of 10. And i never hurt people or animals..not even bugs. This is just what stupid people believe.
YES, oui, ja, of course… education is aping… copying the behavior of grown-ups, in real life, in films, in videos. when violence appears to be trendy you do become violent. all kids do. or else they’d be labelled as “sissy”… ha ha ha
I don’t hurt people nor animals, and I play violent video games all the time. I do kill my fair share of bugs, though. Not for fun, though, just to get them out of my house.
I’d think games like Call of Duty 4, which supports a pro-Western narrative, would make Westerners more prone to accepting violence against certain minorities, though.
:D Delusionals…… it’s politician robbery that make peoples more aggressive….
Yes especially those Live Action Role Play games called Religions.
…Who is the retarded that wrote this?
yes… EU should denounce footnall illegal asap
As a guy who played quite a lot, tbh I think yes, they do.
Nah… that theory was debunked many times. Im playing 24/7 (mostly violent games) since I was 8yrs old and Im calm. If u r right in mind then nothing will happen. Also violent videogames are targeted for mature audience… not little kids… by the age of 18 You should know that this is not real and it should come as a distraction from the real world. According to everyone that thinks that games are making people mad and angry… well, just by looking at my Steam account I should have been a serious killer right now. Also why everyone is talking about violent games and not violent movies which You can watch w/o a problem far before 10pm. If someone has problems after playing a videogame… I bet Your ass he would have these problems anyway.
Also Ive heard a story about a kid (prob. 5-7yrs old) that was throwing rocks at his friends (one of them ended up in hospital with some serious injures) after watching Looney Tunes cartoon (its kinda common to ‘die’ under a rock in a cartoon)… so uh… yeah, should we ban Bugs Bunny now?
I’m not saying that we should ban them but in my opinion games can make people aggressive, reduce their empathy or be a cause of some wrong social behaviours. Again, same can be with movies or cartoons as well, what you prove somehow in your 2nd post. Of course it always depends and what people can do, and especially parents, is to restrict access to most violent games for their kids, at least by reducing the time that kids spend in front of the computers, or talk openly with their kids about realism of some video games etc. Just in order to not affect child’s empathy and to not disrupt some prosocial behaviours of their kids.
Is the game Euro Truck Simulator the cause of all terror related acts in europe
Is the game Euro Truck Simulator the cause of all terror related acts in europe
Is the game Euro Truck Simulator the cause of all terror related acts in europe
Is the game Euro Truck Simulator the cause of all terror related acts in europe
Well, what a silly question. It’s like “does fantasizing about killing people make my soul a better one?”… I have the feeling this “Debating Europe” forum is all about asking outrageously stupid questions, just to make us react. Rubbish social media… Peace
The problem is not the video game itself but the fact that the large diffusion does not allow to control the maturity of those who play with it
Make pseudo warriors
No. Stupid question.
Ask spanish police
Yes. Mirror neurons.
Just the snowflakes
Lol no, of course, they don’t. If one is a normal sane person, playing some video games will not make him/her violent. As for people who are genuinely not right in the head, they don’t need any games to make them violent and anything could set them off. Proof: myself and many of my friends and acquaintances used to play video games on a regular basis and many still do. None of us are violent or roadside maniacs.
Do cars make people violent, irresponsible and stupid? Cause there are a lot of deaths due to irresonspible driving. Do you think we should ban cars?
Dude, no joke, some people are actually that dense, they make laws this way.
Every time I see a question here I am amazed. Its always about bans and more regulations. And as far as i know the EU makes tons of new regulations and then expects Europe to be competitve. Well it isnt going to work mate. Its always like: ban guns, ban free speech (or at least free speech for people with right and conservative views), regulate this, regulate that, regulate businesses, regulate people’s lives, regulate the size of cucumbers and etc. This is NOT the way for Europe to go.
Lag makes people aggressive and a shitty netcode in competitive games.
I assume Vikings were so violent because of CS Go too
As far as I know, stupid questions make people violent
DO I SOUND MORE AGGRESSIVE? :-p
NO. There are several publications that prove it. Stop asking stupid questions.
Which ones? I’ve been trying to read up on the video game-aggressivity literature and my impression was that there was a small but significant effect.
Seriously? All research shows that videogames are nothing but beneficial.
Add references so we can all learn
Google it.
Hey, what’s this game?
Disconnection from nature, plastic food, toxic reality, non balanced life, poverty, insecurity, behavior that generates behavior, social isolation…. etc. I think everyone knows what’s the antihuman cocktail.
As dangerous as a loaded gun. Violent video games and movies have been shown to inspire mass killings
Course they do!
War video games just make war something vulgar and tolerated… Brainwash! There is so many many many interesting things to do and to learn… Sad society
Short answer, backed by numerous studies: No
No ban, that’s purging pulsion
EU Bruxells is turning Europe into a Terror-Zone. EU is Doomed.
No, for that goal are already ready press and governments.
Do books about violence or movies for that matter make people aggressive ? I doubt that, since there’s not serious scientific evidence, only misconceptions. It does something else, though. Exposure to violence reduces our sensibility towards it, but that’s just a part of a highly developed, globalized world.
I’d also mention that, on the contrary, evidence points towards a correlation between video games and decreasing violence. They offer a place to release our violent instincts, which are part of our DNA after so many centuries. People who play Call of Duty constantly won’t have time to randomly go kill people. Meanwhile, I’d like to point out that video games aren’t a big thing in countries highly affected by violence, such as Palestine, Syria, Iraq, etc.
What violent video games were those jihadi assholes playing when they pillaged and burned europe 1000 years ago?
I think no as when you are playing a relaxing game and it comes to a hard bit the your heart rate beats faster as you were relaxed but then it becomes harder and when you shoot people it is less relaxed as you knew it was coming
I think it is possible, but People who become aggresive have already had an aggressive potential or presuppositon.
Played lots of CS, Unreal and C&C Series and still have clear criminal record.
No, they make people tolerant and indolent towards violence and we are already suffering the consecuences of normalizing such behaviours.
No,but they are making young people Psychopats
Riiight…
No, they make focuse internal violence on a screen rather than people arround.
No. Reality makes people violent.
Religion make people violent
No, they don’t bring up any kind of aggressiveness. In the end it totally depends on the individual, its social environment, upbringing and many other factors in a person’s life. A generalization of “violent video games” that all “corrupt” the youth is a whole lotta bullshit.
I played shooter games for nearly my whole gamer life and never had any change in character.
I would even say there are more murderer or criminals not playing such video games. Inform yourself properly before you criticise something instead of accusing those games of “making people tolerant […] towards violence” (BS) or “making young people psychopats” (BS, too).
No, bad reporting does.
Obviamente sim.
Only affects snowflakes
No. A nasty society does.
This is not for debate. Scientific studies showed that violent computer games and computer games in general are beneficial and don’t make people aggressive. Snowflakes on the other hand make people aggressive.
I’m a very aggressive person.
And i did not ask
Radical islamits don’t play Call of Duty nor Battlefield and they are terrorists.
From the scientific studies I’ve read and personal experience, no, they don’t. Can fictional worlds entice already ill people detached from reality? They surely can, but let’s not confuse correlation with causation.
No. Lag does.
Ever since my little brother and I started watching violent TV shows the number of pushing and shoving matches we have had increased. Could video games not have a similar influence on behavior?
It could be a good idea to avoid them
No, they dont.
Does science support this? No. Do old politicians support this? Yes.
I think these games make teenagers aggressive not adults
Yes
Let’s ask Japan and Korea, which are some of the main markets for violent gaming
And the spoons & forks make people obese.
Forced multiculturalism make people aggressive.
No
And heavy metal music, \m/ \m/ … not injustice, not oppression, not fascims, not idiots running governments, not climate deniers, not religious fanatism, no, nothing from those issues make ppl agressive
Hasn’t this question been answered already? N O!!
Does cockfighting?
Violent games have nothing to do with violence. There can be a relationship from violence irl to violence in gaming, but the other way round is improbable. A non violent person will approach “violent” games more peacefully, with a sense of sportsmanship and challenge maybe, in a more “healthy” way. On the contrary a violent person approaches anything,games included,with a toxic behaviour.
(I don’t play videogames at all, I just think that what I said is pretty logical)
I completely agree with you
Considering how just about every research that has inkling of science behind it says that its actually quite the opposite (making people calmer), is it really debatable? Sorry, but this question honestly falls into similar category as “is earth flat?”
Yes!
At least make them insensitive to violence and the pain of others
No, I dont think so. Family and education are needed.
No, but people asking these kind of question do make me more aggressive.
Yes, they do.
violent video games help teenagers vent out their aggression in a safer way where nobody gets hurt.
We disagree because we think that there is no doubt that violent behaviour doesn’t come from playing videogames but if a person is already violent minded, videogames can only increase it.
We are against because we think that video games make violence. In our opinion
it’s batter hang out with firends or read a books.
we think that violence in videogames increases the agressivenes of people , because if you play these games for years you will try to be like the protagonists of the game.
No, I think that if a person can remain calm, videogames will not make them aggressive and they can play for fun and/or to challenge themselves. On the contrary, if someone is already aggressive, a violent videogame (but also every game where they can lose) will make them angry and increase their violent behaviour. Personally, I think that videogames aren’t bad, but if they are played for a long time they will damage the player physically and mentally
We don’t think these games are dangerous.It depends on the type of people that play violent videogames. For example if a violent person plays these videogames,it will increase their violent behaviour. Instead if a calm person plays these videogames it can be a fun game.
We are against violent videogames because we think that videogames encourage violence. In our opinion it’s better to hang out with friends or read a book. If you play on videogames you don’t share anything and you don’t interact with real life. When you spend time with other people you have real human contact so you develop cultural and social skills.
No, I think that if a person can remain calm, videogames will not make them aggressive and they can play for fun and/or to challenge themselves. On the contrary, if someone is already aggressive, a violent videogame (but also every game where they can lose) will make them angry and increase their violent behaviour. Personally, I think that videogames aren’t bad, but if they are played for a long time they will damage the player physically and mentally.
Definitely No! It depends on whether the child understands that this is not real and that this ins’t acceptable in real life. If it wasn’t for dumb ways to die, I would’ve stuck a fork in a toaster by now.
No way violent video games help get rid of aggression by taking anger on things that are not real rather than real people
No, video games do not make people violent, only people with some sort of mental disorder or very bad family issues and environment could be affected by what they see on the screen
No way violent games help u get rid of the aggression by killing not real people.
I think that as long as they’re played in moderation they should be fine, plus nobody has 3 guns and a hand grenade available to them at every given moment
Video games doesn’t make us aggressive but these comments of stup adults does.
No, I think that if a person can remain calm, videogames will not make them aggressive and they can play for fun and/or to challenge themselves. On the contrary, if someone is already aggressive, a violent videogame (but also every game where they can lose) will make them angry and increase their violent behaviour. Personally, I think that videogames aren’t bad, but if they are played for a long time they will damage the player physically and mentally.
They don’t it depends on your personality.
Buy minecraft
Raid a village
Burn their houses
Steal their stuff
Go home
Play minecraft
Yes, me very much agree.
Guys this debate is really fun. Reading the very interesting comments that are here.
You must realized that the games doesn’t make us aggressive they just help to increase the agressiveness that is already inside us. (I think)
No, I strongly disagree with that violent video games make people aggressive. It does make sense that violent video games might trigger aggression. But many studies have failed to find a clear connection between violent game play and belligerent behaviour. Also, as a user that plays FPS(First Person Shooting game) games I never felt that the shooting games I play make me angry or make me think of violent things. In America there was a big issue of a murder caused by playing the game GTA. But I think this murder happened because of the persons personality and the emotion that they felt in life. It may depend on the person who plays violent games but I do not think that just violent video games will trigger aggression.
There are many bad and good things about online games.
They can improve creativity of young people and some people use gaming as their relax after hard or stressful day but It can also affect people’s aggression and depression.
Yes, I also think violent video games make people aggressive. Because they get many stresses in the games and they turn very aggressive and violent. The games are not going to make people like murder or something, but they can get more stresses form games because of they lose the game
Yo have clearly never played a video game before
u really think video games are filth ur fucking crazy bro as a fellow gamer that is not crazy and that goes to school and does homework i do play for maybe about 7 hours a day but it has not done anything to me
Why are all teenagers so horny ?