Violent Video Games and Ethics

Title: Violent Video Games and Ethics
Category: Social Sciences / Sociology | Words: 723 | Pages: 3.1 (approximately 235 words/page)

Violent Video Games and Ethics

Violence in video games and whether or not it influences people to act violently in the real world has been a topic of heated debate as of late. I can see how killing somebody in real life is unethical, but how can playing a game be unethical? I don't kill people in games. Killing means permanently ending someone's life; that doesn't happen in games. When I hit the reset button, everyone is alive again. I …showed first 75 words of 723 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 723 total…why single out video games? Should we not also ban the violence in newspapers, television, movies, the internet, sports, books, and song lyrics, as well as all violence on the streets and violence during war? Why do people always blame video games for society's ills? Ban all video games and people will still be violent, it's just far too convenient to blame video games, especially when religion or morals come into play. By Derek Iverson

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