Argumentative Essay: The Link Between Video Games And Violence

A long- time misconception that no one can support being true. The link between video games and violence has been worrying parents ever since Mortal Kombat came out and thinking it may have an impression on young minds to become violent when in all reality in today’s world most teenage guys play violent video games. I ask you where is the proof when only one or two guys freak out and we neglect their medical history with any mental issues that the media likes to leave out.

Dr. Christopher Ferguson is one scientist that does not believe this link at all and in his own studies has found the opposite in a group of 337 had not only not seen an increase in aggressive behavior but actually saw a decrease in aggression. We do have studies that show

Everyone wants to point out a culprit or “bad guy” if you will other than blaming themselves and taking on the weight of it actually being them. To add another thing to this false idea is the fact of the people who make these accusations are unaware of the average life of teenagers and kids alike and haven’t played any of the games themselves, and so their misinformed accusations make everything look glum on this exact subject. Back onto the bad guy subject people say like call of duty made them do it when like every guy plays call of duty or some other shooter so how does this become a substantial fact in the case of this isn’t fascinating breakthroughs at all. The media will try to brainwash you practically to get you to think what they want you to think or to think like they do. This is where I bring up the question yet again where’s your

These positive effects are less bullying, increased IQ’s, better visual attention and awareness, decreases in aggressive behavior and teamwork skills and some other studies show that it’s the mind set in which you play the games and most people its casual and some its serious. The serious players may show more improvement in these fields because multiplayer games can easily give them teamwork skills and even single player games can give them problem solving skills and figure out how to do things on their own. In addition to skill enhancement it gives them an outlet for violent feelings and lets them do things they cant do in normal every day to day life and lets them relieve feelings of anger, hatred or even can satisfy the feelings of wanting to be worth something cause they can accomplish things and be rewarded for doing so making there self esteem