Do you believe that playing video games (especially violent video games), can lead a person to develop violent behavior?
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When I was a kid, which was about 1950, every kid owned a cap pistol, played cowboys and injuns all day, and watched movies about gunslingers and crime gangs. They all grew up to be docile store keepers, bus drivers, and very very few murderers. This "correlation" bullstuff is just too stupid to discuss. It is entirely made up in somebody's head.
There's no connection. People (especially parents) like to use it as an excuse, really. Say someone's mentally unstable and they play GTA, it can give them ideas, but it wouldn't be the video game's fault, it would be because of the disorder. Still, people like to ignore that. Nobody says violent movies make people violent, now do they? It's probably just how the community is looked at from an older demographic, maybe it'll fade away over time.
I believe that there is no direct correlation to violent acts and violent video games. Some people do choose to believe there is but they may have actually purpose for thinking that. I grew up with a lot of violence. In games the news and even at home. And being around it like that had a backwords effect on me in comparison to the common belief that it makes you violent as well seeing as I grew up to hate violence to this day as a result of my direct exposure to it. Hope this helped. Have a great day bud!