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Violence In Games Essay, Research Paper

A while back a senator said that violence in computer games is completely

outrageous and is amazingly influential on our youth. We’ll just randomly choose

a name by which to call him and randomly choose a state that he represents.

We’ll call him "Joseph Lieberman" of "Connecticut." Oops,

that seems to be his real name and state….. Anyway, Joe believes that violence

is simply appalling and that games should not have violence. Well, here are my

reasons why violence is not bad in computer games: people are not persuaded to

commit amazingly bloody crimes by them, there are ratings on games, and also,

movies can have all the violence they please and the rating can justify it all.

Let us examine these. Many people would say I am wrong about this one. I say

violence does not affect people that much when they are playing a game. I hope

that our species has evolved enough to tell the difference between a 15"

screen full of pixels and the real world. I hope they realize that the violence

on these screens is quite fake, and that in the real world this violence will

not be put up with. What is that I hear? It desensitizes people to violence. Let

us take a look at this. You’ve been playing violent computer games since you

were five. Violence no longer affects you. Are you going to take a gun to

someone’s head just because violence is no big deal to you? You probably will

not. I can hear Joe now. Mechwarrior 2 is violent and should not have all this

violence. Now, if you are familiar with Mechwarrior 2 then you know it is a game

that you play as a robot destroying other robots. Little Billy sees this and

decides he’ll get dad’s robot out and do some damage. There is a reason for you

right there why game violence is not that persuasive. A lot of it is not

completely real. Furthermore, violence has been in movies for a lot longer and

children have not been too influenced by it. Eighty-seven percent of violent

crimes are committed by adults. Do you think all this violence is really getting

the kids to become more violent? Now, people probably are not convinced yet. You

are saying little Billy, 5 years old, in this state of complete malleability

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