Studying the Effects of Playing Violent Video Games

           The moral issue of playing violent video games is that it could lead to violent acts in the real world. It is certain that boys play them at some point; girls play at lower rates and are scientifically less likely to play violent video games. In a newspaper article titled “Studying the effects of playing violent video games” they talked about how social scientist have been studying and debating the effects of media violence behavior. It was not clear whether over long periods of time of such a habit increases the likelihood that someone will commit a violence crime, like murder, rape, or assault, like the Newtown-like massacre. They discovered that a dose of violent gaming makes people act a little more rudely than they would otherwise, at least for a few minutes. Playing the game can and does stir hostile urges and mildly aggressive behavior in the short term. Many psychologists argue that violent video games “socialize” children over time, prompting them intimate the behavior of the games characters, the cartoonish machismo, the hair-trigger rage, and the dismissive brutality. Violence rates are seasonal, generally higher in the summer than in the winter; so are video game sales, which peak during the holidays.

            This article mainly tells us that to some people, playing violent video game like Call of Duty, Killzone 3, and Battlefield 3 can cause side effects such as rage. Its okay to enjoy playing violent video games, but it could also sometimes lead to death and violent behavior. The behavior of the player depends on the video game they are playing like a first person shooter the are playing as a killer, if they are playing a third person game they are playing as the character, they are more likely to behave rudely and aggressively when they play as a violent character. Lastly, when playing any violent video game they are rewarded for killing the bad guy, but then when you transfer it into real life when killing someone you don’t get rewarded with points or a medal; they just killed an innocent person for nothing.

           Different ways violence is shown is by young kids playing with toy guns like water guns and pointing them at there friends, who knows if it was a real gun and they were pointing at there friend. Violence is often shown in competitive sports, media, song lyrics and computer games. It is okay to play violent video games most of the time, but when kids play hours and hours of violent video games they can sometimes turn into psycho-path killers. Young kids ages 7-10 are most likely to play violent video games because once they see an advertisement for the game, they start to beg for it and then there parents get it for them. Young kids should not be aloud to play these types of games because then they can ruin there life or someone else’s.

          In conclusion, the article “Studying the effects of playing violent video games” talks about playing too much of violent video games can cause rude behavior, and can make people want to kill people in real life. This problem can be solved, when playing a violent video game like Call of Duty, once you get killed turn off the TV, walk away and stop playing the game for the rest of the day. That makes the player feel like the people who would die in real life if they were someone with a gun trying to kill as many people as they can to win. This is why people have the decision to keep playing violent video games and maybe eventually start to kill people in real life or to play the game until they die and turn of the TV and walk away.