Do you think that video games really turn people violent?

[pennyq]

Do you think that video games really turn people violent?

[poliq]

Violent video games does not necessarily cause you to do violent things or to become violent. It all depends on your original state of mind, the amount of exposure you have had to violence beforehand, whether violence has become a norm of ur society and has desensitized you to it, and what the purpose of each game is or how much/what type of violence there is in each game.

[swipka777]

Yes it definitely can turn people violent, but at the same time it doesn’t necessarily do so. The Columbine massacre shooters both loved Doom and other FPS games and even designed levels which had their school as the environment.

[lolipop]

I strongly disagree with this viewpoint.

I have a few friend who are just little shrimps, not really capable of doing any harm, but they play shooter games. They are not violent people.

Personally. I sometimes play shooters although I'm not a huge fan of them, since I prefer stealth or sniping gameplay, but most modern multiplayer shooters do not provide enough cover, space, time, etc. to play as a sniper. And stealth just isn't really possible in multiplayer.

I'm not a violent person, completely against it in fact. If I'm ever angry or need to blow off some steam, shooters typically do a good job at that.

I like to think that shooters don't encourage violence in real life, but help prevent it because it can be used as an outlet to let out your emotions, versus normally taking violent actions in real life.
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[perfectroll]

This is a very interesting point of view, but I do not agree with it