Violence In Video Games And Why It Isn’t So Bad
I’ve heard it said quite a lot recently that video games are becoming dangerously violent. I’m never quite sure what that phrase actually means. Does it mean “violent enough that people will start acting on what they see in real life” or does it mean “damaging to the mind in an emotional way from seeing so much violence and gore”? I happen to think that violent video-games are neither. Most of you will have seen how gory they are, but as for any emotional attachment, there really isn’t one.
And look at what people used to do for fun: I can remember learning about frying slugs with a magnifying glass and practising this terrible technique on any slug who wandered into my warpath. Did I grow up to construct a massive magnifying glass with which to fry people with? No, I didn’t, and it wasn’t just because my engineering skills aren’t up to it. What I mean to say is this: by presuming that children will grow up with murderous instincts is silly just as expecting a teenager might get in a car and mow people on the pavement down is silly. Yet nobody would ever think of telling a teenager “don’t kill anyone on the path today, now, tempting as it may be.”
I think it’s all getting a bit out of hand. Can’t we give the kids the benefit of the doubt? It’s always worked in the past, and now the kids have access to Free Antivirus Downloads and movies and education I think we should naturally assume that they won’t turn out any worse than most of us did.
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