Week 7 - Violence in Video Games

Violent Video Games do not cause Gamers to be violent

The main point I am going to make in this post, is that video games have no correlation to making people more violent than they would be without video games. Video games are set in a fantasy world, some may try to re-enact realism such as the 'Grand Theft Auto' Series, but this does not mean that it will enable people to have violent out bursts within our community. There have been many other traumatic events that have occurred throughout history including the more recent World Wars that have a multitude of violence and death involved and could not be pinned on video games since they didn't exist then.

Violent video games should not be a negative in the community, rather they should be seen as an outlet for people to let out whatever they are feeling in a game instead of real life. This should reduce violence and it does correlate to the crime rate over time has been decreasing as the consumption of games increases. This unveils that more people spend their time playing games in the safety of their home, rather than exploring the world and committing crimes whilst doing it for reasons such as simply boredom. The charts below show that there is somewhat of a correlation between when the increase of video games and the decrease in crime rate is which can be considered relevant to each other. This however, rather proves the opposite of violence in games influencing people in a positive manner.

The logical reason for violence in video games is that it can be a release from the real world and since it is a fictional world, you can do anything without consequence so the violence is fine. The world is better off with violence within video games as it does not result in negatively on people rather gives them a way to release stress by relaxing and see what can happen. 

References:
Rachel Barkley, 2014, 'Do Video Game Make Kids Saints or Psychopaths (and Why is it so Hard to Find Out?), viewed 4 April 2017, <http://www.healthline.com/health-news/video-games-saints-or-psychopaths-082814#6>.