The Debate Behind Video Game Violence
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- čas přidán 25. 12. 2019
- Today, 65% of American adults and nearly all teenagers play video games. In 2018, the industry made more than $136 billion. Games look more real than ever, showing incredibly detailed violence. What do we actually know about how violent games affect us? Psychologists have been studying this for decades, but some are convinced that those who link violent games to aggression are completely wrong. Watch the video to find out why researchers disagree so strongly, and how we got here.
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The Debate Behind Video Game Violence
The parents have 10x the impact on the kids than the video games
Hugh Mangold This should’ve top comment.
indeed i got shocked when a 10 year old is playing diviaion 2 and grand theft auto...you ask yourself where the parents when thia kid got those games
Exactly, they blame the games and not the parents.
Edit: most of the times the parents don't even care, but when the kid acts out once they blame video games.
Yes. Parenting is the most important thing in a *working* society. Parents who don’t know how to raise children make more children who don’t know how to raise children, and the cycle continues
Honestly most parents that saay videogames cause violence are too lazy to actually parent their children
Been playing M rated games you can commit mass massacres in for 17 years and I almost cried when I accidentally ran over a raccoon. They wish games made people violent.
Agree, maybe I could say that violent games make me LESS violent.
@@ZidaneSteiner It does, it's called "catharsis"
Ah yes, one persons personal experiences prove this incredibly complex scientific question. We don't need to do studies! I play video games and *I* have never murdered anyone!! So it cannot possible have any effect whatsoever.
@@derpmansderpyskin This type of argument is mostly used by anti video games.
@@derpmansderpyskin 0.29 shekels have been deposited into your bank account
People 30,000 years ago: "Are cave wall paintings corrupting our youth?"
Why is this a question that shouldn’t be asked?
Well, according to Plato, Socrates said writing makes people forgetful.
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@@Katzelle3 didnt he also hate writing and books or was that Plato
lol
This is the definition of “ok boomer”
Old people complain that it makes people violent.But they keep forgetting that old people also invented videogames
@pilot pig They have no knowledge on the games and not look into it to support their claim
We've legit already had this debate. Can we let it rest already? It didn't cause violence in the 90s, and it doesnt cause violence now.
Yes. Yes it is.
@@Destin5258 Not just debate but also real life examples. Video Games have made men shut-ins rather than gangsters. After playing Forza, I don't have feeling of buying a hyper car but watching a movie about cars sure ignite that desire.
So all the wars before video games were just humans playing pranks on each other?
Who knows it's something that may never known
WWII gamers killed 65 millions over which was superior PC or consoles
@@Mulinaster What video game made the people in WW2 " increase violence as an acceptable solution to more everyday interactions." to start a war.
Hop Scotch inspired the Crusades
@@Mulinaster I'm not here to argue the types of violence. Try harder boomer.
No, Violence is not caused by video games. No more so than Violent movies and TV shows.
This
Maybe it's all of it that's the problem.
yeah, social media however is changing the way ppl think and act in negative ways, the more negative feed that is sent to our brains, the more violent and mentally unstable a person becomes, like videos of tragedies, pictures of murder victims
@@mmoarchives2542 Student here, I agree with most of what this person said. It's called desensitization. Violent video games do not inherently make you violent and same with Violence seen on screens. But it's that seeing someone's head being blown off is no longer shocking. It may slowly wear down empathy and sensitivity to certain things. Overall violence in media does not directly make people decide to make unthinkable decisions but personally I wouldn't be opposed to less graphic violence.
and there is no basis for your argument that they are not related
People still believe this crap in 2019?
It’s all the left’s ban culture. Don’t address the mental health of the shooter, blame the gun. Don’t blame the mental health of the drunk driver, attack the alcohol. Don’t blame the mental health of the guy who did bath salts and ate someone’s face off, blame the drugs. Don’t look into the mental health of the school shooter, blame Call of Duty. These people would have us live in padded rooms if they could, they can’t leave anybody alone, they have to shove their worldview into our lives.
Sadly yes...
in 2020 xD
more like 2020
so long as El-tweeting president is in office, it will
Yes Hitler , Stalin and Genghis Khan were avid gamers
Do you have a brain ?
xD
@@utkarshjha1394 yes he/she certainly does.
@@arx48 Seriously where is your brain..... ?
@@utkarshjha1394 *my intellectual self*: up there in thee. head luh :p
No. Saved you 20 minutes.
You beat me to it😄
Let me tell you if game violence was influentilal then everybody who has ever played a From software game would be in mental asylum right now.
Everything is sayd at 13:00
No need to watch all the video.
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Whatever "results" that we "gather" in the ongoing "study" of violent video games vs "real life" aggression..
Please keep in mind.. we are still animals.. primates even..
I'd imagine that some of our ancestors chose to bang coconuts on their heads until they went looney tunes, far before video games were ever conceived of. Why blame our whole species for the ignorance of sadism and masochism?
@ Mulinaster : I think you didn't understand my comment. And the target of this 13 min, which say that games have an effect on behavior. So i don't understand the utility of your comment.
My link was to demonstrate that violent games don't lead you necessarely to murder, but affect clearly the behaviour of people, and negatively. So it has an effect, which is logic, because what we are focus on, affect us on the long term.
The link was, so, to demonstrate that the 2 side are right. And the truth is in the middle. It has an effect, and negative, but don't make you a murderer.
Never heard it in this way but you're 100% approved by big boi jesus
I can’t tell if the human race is either going forwards or backwards anymore
Both. We're going to mars in like 10 years or so, but these kinds of people still do exist.
Bro at this point we're going sideways lol
Downwards
I'd say human intelligence and technologies are going forward, while human mindset and behaviors are going backwards..
It's going backwards
Mom: turn it off it causes violence
Me: “turns off rocket league”
"Boots up GTA"
lol it doesnt cause violence its just a freaking game what can it do??
my mom who's based and plays rocket league with me and the fam
*me turns off farming simulator
Me turns off abc’s with Peppa pig
"Violent video games give you the skill and will"
Okay bud, using a gun with a controller made me an expert on how to use a real one I guess
it does give knowledge tho. it teaches us, especially triple A games. and not like minecraft who has no real life connection.
i've been playing for 30years, i learned quite a lot from games.
good and bad things.
green house have you every used a real gun it’s a lot more than pulling a trigger
@@Aimzy yes. more than just pulling the trigger. but also disassembling and assembling pistols and rifles. i was an rotc officer. when i was in college.
@@claireglory what do you mean, how does it give you knowledge?
@@johnxina8927 in shooting games like medal of honor or call of duty. it teaches the players what kind of weapons & vehicles they used during that time. especially real life events like ww1 and ww2. they also show how a platoon or a squadron operates.
in games like watch dogs, it teaches the players how a computer system is connected also on how to maintain it by putting its servers in a very low and sealed temperature room.
medieval rts games like age of empires, total war, civilization, it teaches the players who are the real life figure heads that is involved in that war.
in simulation games like ancestors the humankind odyssey, it teaches the players what our ancestors are and what they do.
in gta, it teaches the players how to get a prostitute and whats inside a club/stripclub.
etc. etc.
This is actually the most peaceful time in human history, no one is rowing ashore with sword and shields to pillage every village like they were 1,000 years ago.
Most peaceful time was the 90s in the last century. But i see your point.
@@umersalman1 the 90s?
people still do today, but they dont have video games
@@umersalman1 In terms of morality and laws the 21st century is the most peaceful.
Because we all know that Genghis Khan was a avid gamer.
So, apparently everyone has guns laying around their home where children can easily access it
Keep 'em locked up boyz.
LegendStormcrow Nah bro just dont have kids. Cant be lackin
Suppose a majority do? Isn’t that worth considering?
Murica
its a new trind
Hey, give a little credit to our public school, for causing mass shooting in school.
TheBeeBossX I think that’s more mental health and bullying.
@@Andrew-oj3pv
Results of the incompetence of public school
Short Answer... NO
Long Answer: NOPE!
Everything we see, affect us. Saying that violent game have no negative effect on players, is a big big lie.
So maybe it not cause violence. But it participate to increase frustration, negative thoughts, and inner violence. Which not contribute to a better society.
There is a lot of no violent games. We all have the choice to choose between them.
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Man they got 1k dislikes lol
@@Mulinaster so you really think that games cause violence?
@@Mulinaster oh never mind I understand now
The ultimate scapegoat of politicians incapable of doing their jobs.
This is why we need gun control
Parents too
Lucas Zhu yeah, no
@@0IIIIII just ban gun altogether and replace them with swords and bows.
XqWertZ Y fewer people would die if we did
It's like parents need a reason other than their own influence on a kid for them to be not a good child
Just because I play madden doesn’t mean I’m a football player
Playing COD doesn’t make me a CIA agent or a Army Special Forces operator,
Playing Rd2 doesn’t make me a outlaw in 1899
Playing GTA doesn’t make me a street hardened criminal
Playing rainbow six doesn’t make me a member of the SWAT team
Playing Minecraft does not make me a survival expert
Playing video games is a way of doing things that I wouldn’t do in real life, I don’t think that the media understands that..
Facts I just understand that
i play videogames for fun not to experience stuff
play zelda for 100 hours makes me think i'm an rpg guy. ,-scott the woz
If this was the case then every gamer would go on a rampage.
Not neccesarily. They look at any slight increase of aggression as proof.
But yeah its dumb, its obviously not the reason for mass shootings.
Right.
They are. Just that they don't step out of the house. Try shutting down internet to a gamer.
Its just annoying because the parents kids are the kids that probably put their mics up their throat and yell at the top of their lungs. And then they assume its the game because their kids never behaved like this before playing videogames.
But in actuality its because they couldnt look after their kids right
But what about EU, Japan, South Korea etc. Where video games are all time high, they dont seem to have any problem.
That's really the only thought needed to dispel this myth. If it were true, every country would experience mass shootings etc at a similar rate. They do not.
I'd argue that videogames are benefitial for most people outside US. They are the reason why most (younger) people do learn to speak english.
Nobody is saying that video games are the _only_ thing that have an effect on violence, or aggression. Isn't it possible that there's - I dunno, a million - other factors that affect things like this?
Everything we see, affect us. Saying that violent game have no negative effect on players, is a big big lie.
So maybe it not cause violence. But it participate to increase frustration, negative thoughts, and inner violence. Which not contribute to a better society.
There is a lot of no violent games. We all have the choice to choose between them.
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@ Yamilt : Who talked about cancelling them ? But yeah, it would be a good idea to say people how it affect them negatively, and children too. Which is a fact. So it won't be a bad idea to cancel them, you are right. For a better world, you know. Maybe T.V sucks more than a lot of people think. As much as cinema.
So thank you very much. Your idea is pretty good.
Don’t blame games, blame bad parenting
Maple Junky blaming games is easier sooo yeah.
Maple junky=1000000 IQ
But you can't parent shame didn't you know!?! You have to have a scapegoat for everything so video games it is!!! That's how this world operates. Even though it's proven that movies have a higher influence on people than a game. But I digress
@@dontlook3318 agree*
I love how one of them mentioned that "it's like handing a gun to a child" we'll I'm sure there are alot of Americans that have given their kids guns that hasn't caused school shootings and neither has video games with guns in them.
teaching kids to shoot actually makes them safer around guns for the rest of their lives compared to teaching adults how to shoot. you form a much stronger respect for guns when taught earlier in life.
@Creeper Freak most likely nerf guns are looked at like toys and innocent. But that can be far from the truth aswell, because nerf guns are designed like a gun just for kids, but it doesn't hurt anyone, unless you hit someone in specific areas.
This is really a boomer argument. Until and unless studies show otherwise, I'm convinced that video games aren't a factor of violence.
What kind of nonsense is this ? This means you don't believe in stereotypes ? If you need a study for everything you shouldn't have any purpose to believe in being a good person after all being bad to people dont make them bad rit ? Listen to the nonsense tou want to speak before you speak it.
Maybe GTA, but thats just an extension of criminal worship going back to Jesse James, Robin Hood, any Greek hero, and Jack the Ripper. That said the VAST majority of cases actually reduce violence.
@@utkarshjha1394 what did you just even say.
@@stupidestanimations598 I have no idea what he said.
was there a spike in violence after the release of the first Mortal Kombat?
was there a spike in violence after the release of the first GTA?
was there a spike in violence after the release of ANY of the most controversial games?
NO. THERE. WAS. NOT.
there has not been a single proof of game related violence since the release of PONG.
Does people buy new cars every time a new Gran Turismo or Forza Motorsport are released? NO
Does people buy new swords every time a new Final Fantasy is released? NO
@George Hennen why do we need to ask if videogames make people violent every 3 months? there has not been a single proof of that in human history. in europe criminality has been steadily declining since 2004, mass shootings only happen in country that do not regulate firearms. it's simple as that.
@George Hennen I did, what's your point
@@Michelrs No you didn't
@@harshitgupta6856 Well he did, so shut up
I watched the video...and agree with OP 100%.
They mentioned Japan and Korea for 2 seconds and moved on because they know the argument dies there.
Gaming is way more intense there....and if the relation of gaming=violence was true.....we would hear of daily mass crimes from those countries.....but we DON'T.
Let’s be honest here, who goes outside holding a shotgun and shoot everywhere because of a VIDEOGAME
I did after I played farming simulator.
Such a violent game.
People with prior mental illness
The dude in Hatred. Exactly what he did actually.
@@basedamogus ban farming simulator, it clearly makes kids shoot up schools
*yi mo:* it's not that you will want to do something bad just because of videogames but people get inspired by the entertainment industry whatever movie, game or book when committing a crime or may consider committing crime as another option because you operate with limitations of your own knowledge during single person problem-solving and your knowledge is also limiting factor during searching for a solution you not yet found. Whatever you get inspired by the environment like nature when creating new technology or inspired by fiction when committing or considering committing a crime, every bit of knowledge you ever gather is potentially usable in a crime or can lead you to choose to commit a crime over legal options. You don't teach lockpicking to kids for a reason, that has been said well-parented mentally stable teenager unlikely commit violence because of playing an adult only video game but still can be inspired by that game when considering committing a crime, in case of mentally unstable, everything is possible, but generally wrong "friends" have much more power to take young people in the wrong direction than some work of fiction especially as most of the caught criminals are not especially well-educated while even criminal arcade videogames for adults like GTA or Hitman can show you how things can get wrong rather quickly for you if you try to commit crime and things did not go as planned...
In ideal world, parents should be deciding what game at which age is harmless to their kids mental development based on unique pace each kid is evolving mentally, but we don't live in the ideal world and many parents are itself kids incapable to take care for themselves and even less capable take care of their kids which requires also having the ability to properly assess their mental state, so that's why you legally should play GTA or Hitman only as an adult even when most of the teenagers can handle it as well without any issues or harm to their future...
As for correlation between video games and aggression, some players get addicted to videogames putting playing video games above anything else, and this similarly to other addictions causes health issues if addiction is sustained long enough but also points of conflict mostly when people close to addicted try to put such persons away from the source of addiction or addicted become more aggressive as an consequence of stress from mounting issues due to their declining social and working/study performance...
Most popular games in 2019
Minecraft
@Logan DeMott no
@@user-uf8de5cw7x yeah
@@user-uf8de5cw7x yeah
Before video game: two world wars with millions of casualties
After video game: zero world war
I rest my case ...
John Smith your logic is impeccable you are truly a Gamer amongst filthy casuals. I salute you.
@@sebastianprimomija8375 Agreed, Gabe from Valve is helping the prevention of World War Three because they can't count. We might get World War 2 Episode 1 but it will not be very long don't worry.
John Smith you know what the UN is?
Pls Dont you know what a joke is?
@@uhsund lmao this is gold
Am I the only one who noticed that they tried to make us believe Minecraft is a gun game? 7:55
This is a mod Minecraft doesn’t have and isn’t based around guns
I thought Minecraft was a building game...
@Alex 2017 They did a great job putting everything in context besides that part. I would have explicitly mentioned what the millions of people do in Minecraft regularly and that this particular instance was a purposeful modification.
They're using a mod.
at 9:20, they clarify. They had a "gun version", a "sword version", and a "peaceful version". Did you watch the whole video? Or just stop halfway through to make a negative comment?
@@derpmansderpyskin but the gun version was a manipulated one, minecraft is not intended to be played that way.
We had the same arguments placed against violence in comic books...
Comic books...
Back when I was a kid, those who played videogames (violent and otherwise) were just the nerds who minded their own business and wouldn't hurt a fly. Conversely, the bullies who committed violence and verbal abuse would cringe at the very mention of the concept of videogame.
Ok boomers
You drink that water. Keep yourself hydrated brother.
Dhahaa, that boomer joke 😂😂😂
Grasshoppers 😀
Thank you for speaking the TRUTH
ok bomber
You've tried this before and it still couldn't be more inaccurate but then again... You already know that, just another scapegoat to avoid addressing the real problems.
Everything we see, affect us. Saying that violent game have no negative effect on players, is a big big lie.
So maybe it not cause violence. But it participate to increase frustration, negative thoughts, and inner violence. Which not contribute to a better society.
There is a lot of no violent games. We all have the choice to choose between them.
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Yes white people are the problem
They featured *DIG-DUG* in this documentary and associated it with unruly teenage behavior..
THUMBS-DOWN, CNBC.
@ kibgjaden : You WRONG. It's chinese people. And the koalas. Because they eat too much bamboos.
The media is all bought. Yang 2020
I’ve played games all my life. Never even thought of murder
I've thought of it but then I used common sense and just decided to play San Andreas with my FRIENDS
its probably cuz u play tetris 24/7
@@user_klm7012 says the one with a Roblox profile
@Chonk roblox isnt tetris
Violent video games actually reduce the risk of murders and violence related crimes , due to giving humans their negativity fix in a alternate reality .
After playing Hotline Miami
I am now gonna think twice before I do something that is violent in nature
If your kid finds a gun and is able to use it without any intervention, I promise you, video games aren't the issue.
Amen
If your kid then goes the extra step to use the said gun without any moral thought or intervention, the gun or the video game isnt the issue, its you for failling as a parent.
This is absolutely ABSURD. Violent video games do not cause violence in real life. Just stop it. What a waste of time.
Mr Foldgers uh buddy you do know they agreed with your opinion
Lmahahah, they never said it did lmahaha, watch the content before assuming any thing. Its just a video showing the state of this argument nowadays.
Lol, love how they changed the title after it was uploaded. Big yikes
@@mrfolgers4642 But did you watch/lsiten-to the video before commenting?
100% agree
100% of people who say video games cause violence have never even played a game in their life. They just look at it and start assuming this kind of stuff
They are the same people who tend to be gun nuts tho...
yes, they should shut up and look at themselves and what they caused.
People who say guns are bad probably haven’t shot a gun.
I don’t think old people who don’t play games should be making these claims
Just like non-smokers shouldn't make the claim that smoking has consequences? Come on dude.
They don't, question answered. Mega tons of studies done on this subject back that.
MJ Is The Goat no.
@MJ Is The Goat im guessing its more of frustration than aggression. we've all felt frustrated and maybe sometimes even smacked our table/keyboard after playing games, and people with mental disabilities like autism are prone to be more easily frustrated.
You just replied w/o even watching it though.
Japan and Korea would be having multiple mass shootings a day if video games were the cause of violence.
@MJ Is The Goat LMAO, you just debunked you're own argument. Since autism and mental illness is required alongside a video game for violence to occur then it is not the video game that is the trigger or the cause.
This is completely BS. If people believe that playing violent video games is linked to more aggression then please tell me what games were people playing in early 20th century when WW1 took place or in mid 20th century when WW2 happened.
Linked to more aggressivity. To more negative thoughts. To more inner bad feelings. Violent games have an effect, but don't creat murderers. But they can help some real murderers to commit crime, so people who are already crazy in their head.
It was board games like monopoly that caused the world wars.
It's utter non sense, tbh,
some people tend to have depression, anxiety, stress, loneliness, living from paycheck to paycheck and mental illness..
They'll do something reckless and everyone will blame video games for their acts.. without focusing on root of all the problems.
Its well known videogames influence people. I bet Usain Bolt was a huge fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise as a kid. Poor guy.
@Aaron Z. Japanese suicide rate is one of highest on earth leading cause of death of men ages 20-44 & woman ages 15-34
Why does the media choose people who don’t play video games to talk about this most of the time
They do the same thing with guns and it’s annoying. They choose people who have either never seen a gun in real life or have just gotten shot up by a lunatic.
Doctor : your son is pretty aggressive lately
Perents : is it video-games ?
Doctor : no, its lead-poisoning
Studies that linked Gaming to Aggression are at the very least incompetent, or worse -- purposefully deceptive.
Because they are just like experiments with dissolving a metal spoon in a glass of coca-cola to establish that coca-cola is extremely acidic and therefore horrible/dangerous to people.
It is missing the most crucial part => *_Perspective_* => if you were to mention that the very same spoon in the very same glass is dissolving in orange juice even faster and that ultimately our stomach doesn't care that much about acidity cause it is an acidic place itself => suddenly the entire experiment/study is exposed for what it is -- garbage.
Coming back to studies where they link Gaming to Aggression. Kids pick up things and smash them around more aggressively after they played violent video games. You know what you have to do next? Take a look at how much aggression kids show after playing football for example, or after watching a violent movie and then *_Compare_* the results! I'll spoil your suspense by revealing that games don't really outperform movies and lag miles behind active physical sports activities.
Studies that link violent games and aggressivity, are right. But not those who link violent games and murderings. ( for normal people )
But, if you are not stable mentaly, a game can help you to do some murder. If you are already crazy in your head. So it don't CREATE murderers, but it help murderers to commit easily some crime. That's a fact and that's logic.
So it don't creat murderers, but help those who are already crazy to commit crimes. And influence normal people to be more aggressive, but not murderers. So violent games are not good for people.
@@nop4064 Violent games are not good for people. But neither are violent movies, music, active sports, etc. Getting told they are having a launch break after you stood in a bank queue for an hour is even more conducive to making a person violent and so are many other things in life. Drinking water is not good for people either, all the people who did drink water died in the end. The question shouldn't be if violent games are good or bad for people, but how much of a bad influence they have relative to other things people do?
Maybe you are right about crazy people being on the edge, and playing violent games pushing them over the edge. But you have to at least consider that without video games they would have listened to some aggressive screaming music, watched some crazy violent videos, or did any other activity in life that is emotionally stimulating and/or destabilizing and would have gone over the edge that way.
At some point, you will realize that fixing a billion things that have an effect on people's emotions is just not the right approach. We have to treat the underlining problem instead of addressing the symptoms -- get some mental health help for crazy people instead of going from industry to industry and making everything they produce fluffy and childproof.
Soda is bad for your teeth. So is stomach acid
@@0IIIIII Yeah, soda is bad for your waistline as well. But I didn't give that example to argue soda is healthy, I brought up soda acidity experiments as an example of flawed experiment/study methodology. My point was not that games or soda have no negative effects on anything. My point was, -- there is a mountain of bs that is generated because of flaws in studies and statistical manipulation, and unfortunately bs spreads through news much better than boring but accurate scientific results.
guys, water causes steel to rust, you really wanna drink that?
No
Simple as that.
I've been playing shooting games since I was 10 and never have I thought about killing people
Nope
Ok boomer
But seriously you are extremely wrong
Who is? And why? Be more specific.
Central Intelligence Agency remember no russian
@Central Intelligence Agency yes, keep attacking the straw man.
You knew right out looking at the two researchers faces which one supported video games as violence incubators and which one did not
Phlegethon I was hoping the one on the left would break stereotypes
There is no “debate,” the psychology is unanimous that video games don’t cause violence. Quit trying to find scapegoats and fix the actual problems.
You're wrong. Firstly, there's no such thing as unanimous in the scientific community. Secondly, there is a consensus, but it goes exactly in the opposite direction of what you claim. If you'd watched the video you'd see that it's actually a very reasonable and nuanced piece of journalism, and doesn't "scapegoat" anything.
@@derpmansderpyskin I'm seeing your comments and I'm thinking you're the only one here with a functioning brain and actually WATCHED THE EFFING VIDEO before going keyboard warrior. People. I can't count how many times they said here that games do not cause violence! But aggression? Yes, and I can agree with that much. "Ragequitting" is a term because it's someone getting mad at video games and becoming aggressive. Not violent, they're not out hurting anyone. But unnecessarily overly upset over a video game? Yes, it happens. Acting like it doesn't is sweeping issues under the carpet and doesn't help anything. I love video games as much as anyone but I'm also not about to shove my head in the dirt just to protect them. So in conclusion, yes, games can and do often cause *aggression*, but *not* outright violence. There's a difference.
What "problem" are you referring to? All the problems?
Everything we see, affect us. Saying that violent game have no negative effect on players, is a big big lie.
So maybe it not cause violence. But it participate to increase frustration, negative thoughts, and inner violence. Which not contribute to a better society.
There is a lot of no violent games. We all have the choice to choose between them.
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@@nop4064 I think after Grand Theft Auto (and I'm talking about 1 here), that was when games turned really weird. Before that Abuse was probably the most visually visceral game I'd played but they were aliens. When you start exploding men's brains in car doors you notice the thrill of bloodlust and find it good. After a while I got so bored of FPS games and now violence literally makes more bored af. I lived through the 80's and Die Hard and Beverly Hills Cop 2. Violence is a drug the west is hooked on like Japan isn't as a matter of fact.
Complete BS. I have played violent video games since I was a kid and I never hurt anyone in my life. I like peace. All my friends growing up played violent video games and they all are non-violent people.
This whole video:
Me: Ok Boomer
Ok dumb
Also we are angry cuz we lose or very frustrated not cause violence
Bottom line: there is no rhyme or reason behind this “debate”. It’s just a bunch of old men who think they know the cause of violence. If games are so damaging and terrible then what about movies? Remember, just like guns, it’s not the games it’s the people who play them.
Plus, video games were the cause of violence though out human history, all that murder, genocide ect. was all video games fault back in the days were knights roamed the castle walls... Smh
abro amg exactly. It’s sad.
7:55 WHO ADDED FIREARMS TO MINECRAFT 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ 😂
I don't not believe video games lead to criminal behavior or violence. Its just an excuse just to get money
Fun fact: Ed Gein was an avid gamer. His favourite game was Minecraft. That's how he learn to craft his own furniture and house.
America: argues that video games result in violent mass shootings.
Rest of the world: Let me get this right, your gun laws that allow anyone to own a gun is okay, but an imaginary virtual fighter game is a no no.
Ok America.
Exactly what laws would you put forward to help? Besides banning guns completely...
Criminals probably get their guns illegally though.
@@wudderbottles not letting the crazy get the guns. Zero IQ comment
@@wudderbottles background checks and mental tests aswell
@@cj4840 yes because that doesnt exist lmao
There is no debate. Art is a reflection of reality, not the other way around, and video games are art. So too is music and so are paintings and movies. Games reflect the reality of the world. That doesn't mean they create that reality - it's already there.
JESUS HAS SAID!!
I'm sure this isn't a non-bias comment justifying your devotion to games. Sure, I guess I'll believe you.
I played Stardew Valley yesterday, I now have a strong urge to commit multiple war crimes and genocide in Slovenia.
Japan: plays more video games than the US
Also Japan: has less than half the crime rate of the US
Init XD
Yeah, it's stupid. Also China has barely any games, but plenty of crime
If they don't do violence in video games then they will do violence in real life.
Yep that's true
BS.
@Picolas Cage I guess you are married to Kitana as well.
It doesn't start with the video game, it's starts with the person playing the video game.
Atom M or whoever's raising that person playing the video game.
exactly, they are trying to avoid to enforce responsibility on society to raise humans who are actually responsible and normal human. Entitlement and self centered personality needs to be eliminated within children else they will become the kind of individuals who see themselves as victims and can't comprehend that not everything in this world will be according to their wish.
I bet most of the people who disliked this video didn't even watch it. They read the title and instantly disliked it. This was actually a well constructed video with a rather positive narrative towards video games.
spot on, and some of the comments here are truly stupid, ignoring every nuance that the video included.
Been playing violent games for almost 20 years. I’ve only been in a couple of fights non of which I started all of which I was only defending myself.
Here we go again.
Bullying at school, ragging, abusing, extra pressure from school , parents, social pressure, work pressure etc are jokes
Meymey oh no! Ill have pressure in the process of growing up? Whatever should i do?!!?!!?
Damn I'm lucky cuz i dropped out of school. :-\
violence? but im playing with my friends in roblox, taking care of my animals in minecraft, beating russian mafias to death in hotline miam-
oof ded
This is what my parents told me After playing Tetris 99
I learn about genocide in school but you dont see 100% of teens commiting a war crime
I have played “Deer Hunter” on my iPhone a lot. In the game, you shoot all different kinds of animals from prairie dogs to elk, bears, jaguars, lions, rabbits, meerkats, nilgais, cassowaries, kangaroos, crocodiles, ostriches, zebras, deer (of course), coyotes, wolves, dingoes and others. You use pistols, rifles, AR’s, shotguns, bows and arrows. In real life, I am a vegan animal activist.
Red dead is making me want to steal a train and tame a wild horse
What's hilarious is that video games actually reduce violence. Because if there are way more people that just stay inside playing videogames all day, that means they literally spend less time in public. I mean look at the young Chinese boys. Those nerds couldn't hurt a fly lmao, they just sit in front of their computer all day.
Btw, you guys should actually watch the video lmao, I like how this kind of clickbait is on literally every video on this site, but since it's a touchy subject for nerds they just auto-dislike it. In the end they definitively say that there is no proof that video games cause violence.
@George Hennen Oh really? Sure buddy.
Yes. I just diced my sister using the Mortal Blade.
SHINOBI EXECUTION
My mum was reluctant in letting me play bully, because she thought I would do similar things in real life, like giving prefects wedgies and storming the girls’ dorm and stealing panties. 😅😅😅
LOL
I remember the last time I booted up stardew valley, I instantly bashed in my cousin's head and commited countless war crimes after.
lmao
phew it was just games
'fortnite', and 'violent'? ok boomer
boomers lol. Fortnite is what will cause eternal innocence in kids
Abort nite lol
while video games aren't likely to cause the violence based on the statistics, calling someone a boomer is probably going to result in being beaten.
@@JeffBauReal Yeah
Bruh boomers don’t understand that video games don’t make you violent
I find it hilarious how they used a Minecraft mod to test this
video games doesn’t cause violence
Yeah 😡
If people can’t get out their frustrations in a virtual world, they’re going to be more likely to do it in real life. If anything, video games subdue people and make them more complacent. People who go out and commit mass shootings aren’t the same lazy people sitting on the couch playing Fortnite. They’re the people who fear for their life or feel backed into a corner because they’re bullied at school, abused at home, or overbearing societal pressures
@Alex 2017 it's all down to mistreatment
yeah, that's the irony of the video game research, when you feel like killing someone you play fps games, when you feel like punch someone in the mouth, you play boxing games or fighting games, but i will recognize though, that video games does have negative influences over a long period of time, the younger the kid is the higher the negative influence
I'm hoping to add to the topic you brought up about frustration and why video games may help alleviate some of it.
Say you are a 16 year old kid and you had a rough day at school. You got bullied or got a bad grade. Relieving stress or frustration through say, fortnite is an acceptable coping mechanism. A more appropriate response would be to journal or talk to someone about it, whether a parent, counselor/therapist, or even a friend. But it's normal to want to escape the world in a video game.
What should not be happening is craving to shoot people, or see parts of their brain on a metal pipe. There is a distinction between playing the game like advanced lazer tag and being that one kid who uses Mele attacks in lazer tag.
I am open to discussing this. I myself play video games, but am also aware of the addictive properties of it, as well as the desensitization to violence etc. Video Games create.
People need to start being violent towards the hundreds of thousands of organized gang stalkers in the United States which are all connected with secret societies and organized crime and directed by European royals and nobles.
@@AhuwahZeus boy, what part of the dark web did you just come from?
7:56 why is a recording of minecraft with mods used instead of a recording of the default game?
That whole thing was absolutely ridiculous. What parent would even have a gun around for a 7 year old to pickup and immolate?... that speaks more on the bad parenting
imagine how much more weird and graphical content was in that mod pack e.g blood etc and more deadly weapons and they only showed a snippet of what the full experience would have been like. personally i thin that after the kids had the gun in the game they werent violent they maybe just wanted to see what it would be like to experience it in real life out of curiosity, not inflicting harm on a person but the feel of it and the experience of shooting a gun
i get more agressive watching this than playing any kind of game for the last 25 years.
lol
I’m gunna save you 20:00mins. No, no they do not.
It’s pretty dumb to say that video games cause violence. Politicians may say that to get votes from parents (like that stupid shut down policy in South Korea). just because there is an incident of someone who is extremely violent played a violent game... that doesn’t mean games equates to violence. When we look closely into that person’s life there is so many risk factors involved like bad lifestyle patterns, unemployment, housing issues, financial issues, and mental health etc. a single factor doesn’t make someone a violent person. That’s pretty stupid.. parent who abuse their child either physically or mentally probably have higher risk factor then of video games. Parent shouldn’t worry about video games, they should reflect on themselves first. USA should work on gun control then video game regulations... so dumb
Me: kills a sheep on minecraft
My mom: VIOLENCE!!!!!
🤣😂🤨
Very well done video. I am not an expert of psychology, violence, or anything else. I AM an expert on my own experience with video games. I'm 33 and I've been playing games since 1991. I don't want to write an endless thing nobody will read but here we go. A lot of my aggressions and outbursts growing up were often linked to playing, but it was a result of failure or getting my butt kicked by other players, causing me to say offensive things, break controllers, etc. But I have never hit another person or even considered violence. I really think a lot of anti game people are people who have ZERO experience with games. They think they are empty calories with only negative consequences. I play much more constructive games these days, like management and building games. But violent ones still take up a large part. I don't play shooters as much, not because of moral reasons, but because I'm not good at them. As a result, I get a lot less aggressive. I'm also older now. I think it would be foolish to say that games don't desensitize or encourage a response in real life; I think ALL MEDIA has that effect, ESPECIALLY the news. But there is a big difference been armed assault or robbery and Stephen Paddock premeditating the killing of dozens of people. That requires something in the brain that most of us do not have. To my knowledge, he was a gambler, not a video gamer. The Columbine kids just hated society. To say they did it because Mortal Combat made them do it would be an egregious oversight. But it needs to be discussed. And I DO think parents should take responsibility for their kids and restrict both time and content based on age AND overall maturity and behavior of their kids.
Did.. did y’all watch the video?
I know, right?
They definitely did not. They did exactly what was said in the video. Judged it based on the Title of the video 🤣
its biased heavily though. thats why we hate it.
I watched the whole video, still disliked it. There is no debate here.
@@a13xp52 thats not a reson to dislike it
No it's just the mental capabilities of some people and maybe they need help but dont blame video games.
If anything, blowing the heck out of things or beating the heck out people in games like my favourite Grand Theft Auto relieves stress.
This comment needs more votes. Seriously!
This video shows that many still live under a rock
It's just a lot easier to blame video games than to confront real issues in society.
a man who always angry and ripped his office paper when he angry, talk about game violence??
please give her a mirror. her brain is rusty.
video games have helped me with depression, stress, anxiety etc !
Games have never made me violent. Rather, they have helped me relieve stress and have given me the ability to relax after having killed a lot of NPCs
Games dont cause violent
Game taught me to plant tree and to help homeless
And rpgs taught me to make good decisions and to do good things for people
I grew up playing violent video games and I still haven't committed a crime, maybe just maybe some people have irresponsible parents who never disciplined them during their formative years
No they do not. That's like saying does Hollywood cause violence? Millions play FPS/GTA everyday. I have yet to hear something when out there and commit a violent crime because of a video game. Anyone who commits a crime, was already crazy before playing video game.
People who commit crimes and violence out in the streets probably can't afford to stay at home and play online video games.
Imagine the media being terrified that football players would be tackling people on the street because that’s what they do in football
So for a majority of ya’ll that are writing in the comments; I urge you to practice some patience and watch the entire video. I think a lot of you might change your tune after that because CNBC here is actually agreeing with you that video games don’t cause violence. Literally, the last line of the video is:“But there is not research that playing a violent video game makes them a school shooter”
All this video is doing is giving a thorough look at the debate over video games and violence. They never make the claim that games cause violence or that we should ban them. The most they ever do is cite multiple studies that show that games make aggressive behavior more likely, but not violence. They even took extra care to note how these studies have been misinterpreted and used by the media to scapegoat other causes. They also pointed out that these studies have their critics and that there’s a lot of room for error on them.
I understand that for decades games and gamers have been demonized by a lot of groups that don’t know much about the medium. However, that doesn’t mean that everyone who chimes in on this subject is out to attack video games. Maybe if we want to show that we’re not actually violent and toxic we shouldn’t get so aggressive/dismissive and raise our pitchforks the second we THINK we’re about to hear something we don’t like.
BoomDaBoom Im literally so confused on why people are mad in the comments. The person who made this video actually says videos games don’t cause violence multiple times.
Yeah but theirs clear bias in the video.
@@DeJaBarclay Not mad. Annoyed
They should be putting all their efforts into banning loot boxes instead, since people are developing a gambling habit at a young age.