With the introduction of video games such as Call of Duty, and other war shooter games, a controversey has brewed about the violence they recreate. Read the following articles dealing with video game violence. In your weekly article this week, aruge for one side of the video game violence debate. Should games that portray war, such as Call of Duty, be allowed to exist? More importantly do they diminish the violence that actually occurs in real war (keeping in mind there was no "reset" button for soldiers of World War I)?
Video game violence has been around for years now. Kids and teenagers around the world have seen the violence in movies or video games. So its nothing new to them when a new video game comes out because they have seen it before. I believe that Call of Duty and other violent games should be allowed to exist because they should know what real war is like or can be like. War is a bad thing and for kids to know this early might make them a peaceful person. But the only reason kids that are under a certain age cannot buy the games if it is too violent. A lot of the times the parent buys the game for the child so the parent is in wrong also. I think if you are old enough to buy the violent games there's nothing wrong with playing the game. I do not think they diminish or lessen the violence that happens in real war because when you are in war, you would be very scared and worried for your life. Call of Duty is not going to be in your mind when you are in a war. Also no matter what people are going to fight, a video game is not going to effect the war or the fighting in the war. The video game to the left is called Grant Theft Auto, one of the most violent video games on the market. Many teenagers and kids play this game. As you can see in the bottom left hand conner there is a rating. The rating stands for mature which is 17+. So you have to be 17 to buy the game. But the video game is completely fake to me. It is not even close to reality and a war seen. In the video game you can go around killing people which is not nice. Many people get ideas of video games and do it in real life. This would be the only reason to me as to why they should not be allowed in society. In real life, you do not have a extra life or a pause so you can keep living. If you get shot most of the time it was most certain death, you unless you were lucky and controlled the bleeding and got the bullet out fast enough. In world war one, the great war many times doctor's would have to amputate body parts for the person to live. To me they make violence in war more worst because they have seen what they can do on the video games and want to do it in real person. Most of the time this is not the case, if you live like you do in a video game you will die pretty fast. So i do think violent video games should be able to exist because its the parents choice if the children can play it or not. There is nothing wrong with them because they are not reality and do not lessen the war, nor do they make it worse.http://www.popfi.com/wp-content/uploads/grand-theft-auto-4.jpg
