Video Games

Today, I have decided to talk about video game violence and the debate that still goes on today concerning this topic. I need to mention first, however, that I have not done any real "research" on the topic, I am simply basing my ideas on what I have heard and read throughout the years. The argument which I thoroughly disagree with goes something like this: Violent video games have a tendency to promote violent acts. Children who play these games therefore become more violent. They become more aggressive as well as hostile and care less about those whom they affect or hurt in their actions. The conclusion that several individuals draw from this is that violent video games should not be made. They believe that companies who develop and manufacture these games should stop what they are doing and essentially be punished for creating the games they do. My main argument is with the latter of these statements. Whether it can be definitively proven or not that violent video games create violent children does not concern me, what concerns me is the conclusion that is drawn from such research. Those who protest violent video games and the creators of such games are targeting the wrong people. Whose responsibility is it to monitor what children are doing, watching or playing? Their parents. We live in an age in which children are spending more time in front of the TV than with their parents. There should be no problem with violent video games, as long as they are being played by the adults for whom they were meant for. Parents need to take responsibility for what their children are getting their hands on. Whether or not violent video games influences children makes no difference, the fact is that children should not be getting their hands on them to begin with. That is the responsibility of their parents, not the creators of violent games.

Vocabulary:
1: Aggrandizement: n 1: The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family
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2: Preponderant: adj 1: Having superior weight, force or influence 2: Having greater prevalence
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