Do violent video games cause violence in real life?

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When I play a crappy game i get angry but not violent against the gamemaker.

We had a debate on this in my speech class.

I have come to the conclusion that violent video games make people think more violently and make them more conferable with gore/fights/ect. However, it does not effect your ability to decipher right and wrong. It's the person's own decision to take a part in violence and the video games he/she may have played didn't tell them to do that.

This comes pretty close to what I'll say, but there is a point at which this becomes a deciding factor. If you recall the Columbine shooting, they blamed games like DOOM (they showed the original one from the 90s, though DOOM 3 had been out), yet it was discovered that there were assorted weapons and whatnot in the boys' room. It's not the kids becoming violent because of the games, it's their parents not doing anything about their behavior. I was raised on the classics like Wolfenstein, Blake Stone, Battle Chess, DOOM, etc (along with my brothers), yet we were A/B students, didn't give a damn about certain peoples' opinions of us, and never once got in trouble with the law. It should be made a law that if a child (under a certain age) commits a crime, their parents should be charged as well (because a kid is your responsibility until they leave the house). With the Columbine kids, they should have been committed, and their parent's incarcerated for criminal negligence.

Yeah, I used some of that in my debate. According to the kids room mate, most of the time he was just staring at the wall. If someone had talked to him or if he kept in touch with reality then he probably would of realized that what he was thinking was wrong. So it' could be his parents, maybe even his room mates. But sometimes you just can't help it. Some kids are just born breaking rules and ect..

It's a fact! games make you violent.

First of all, the poll is kind of loaded in its responses; the "Yes" answer makes you feel stupid to click it.

Anyway, the answer is obviously NO, and as many people have said, violence in video games can be therapeutic. Having a bad day? Pop a copy of UFC 2010 or NCAA Football or whatever into the machine, project all anger upon your opponent, and beat the living daylights out of them! Whamo, you're happy and not angry.

that was kinda the point

exactly

Just don't blame the testers. We know a game is crap, too....it's just that aspect is always ignored because it's not a functionality bug. Everyone who was testing the Superman Returns knew it was gonna suck.

No worries. I used to work in test. I know exactly what it's like to tell someone a product is crap for a year or more and then to watch it go out the door.

Its this simple. Violent crime pre-dates Video games by millennia. Take away the console and what causes the crime? Rock music? Pre-dates that as well.

It must be the water then. It's constantly beating upon the earth, eroding it's features until the land will be swallowed by the oceans. We must stop drinking it immediately, for that must be what is making us violent.

How'd you get into testing? I've always wanted to do that.

I think my brothers said it best . . .

Younger brother: Can games make you want to kill people . . . no. Can people make you wanna kill people . . . HELL YES!!

Youngest brother: I find it odd that the first thing people do when someone dies of violence is paste blame and fling lawsuits. I thought we were supposed to be mourning the dead, not looking for money.

That's not a bug, it's a feature! The closer it gets to the game going gold, the more the "features" start to look like bugs...

No they don't cause violence, people are responsible for that; although it does give people inspiration or ideas on how to murder someone.

lets ban everything except teletubbies people wont get any idea to murder anyone, suicide rates may rise but thats only side effect for safe nation