Blogger acentforyourthoughts has posted a rant responding to the media claiming that video games cause violent actions in people. It seems to have been written in a heat-of-the-moment scenario, but it’s very well thought out. Acentforyourthoughts brings up several great pieces of evidences against the violent video game theories, and it’s well worth a read. Excerpt and link below:
If you are a passionate gamer I’m sure that reading that angered you. However that statistics really just say that people who engaged in playing video games also engaged in violence. However nowhere does it say conclusivly that video games CAUSED such violence. Once again, what’s to say that there wasn’t a third factor in this like, once again, a bad environment. People who were in a bad environment tend to strike out more…and enjoy playing violent video games more over Neopets.
