Help me answer the question whether videogames cause violence

[Legendary_W]

Of course videogames don't cause violence, gamers are too busy playing as to commit a crime.

Nah, now seriously. Games, although some are violent and kind of gore-ish, most of them involve a "good guy", namely your main character, fighting because of clearly positive moral reasons. Let's say, Gears of Wars. You're shooting the shit out of horrendous creatures and cutting them in half but that's because they are a threat to the world and they messed with innocent people. That's what made "Hatred" so controversial, that particular game had no good guy fighting for moral values. The storyline involves someone wrongdoing for his own pleasure. Hell even mass effect, although you could choose between paragon and renegade, renegade was simply being a dick more often than not, and it usually led to negative results. Moral of the story: Be a good kid and everything will turn out fine. People only think of the killing, but they don't think the WHY of the killing.

It'd be nice if you shared how you found a relation between games and violence, though. Although I can see a possible relation, since someone mentioned stuff like a kid becoming agressive after being interrupted while playing a videogame. I didn't think of that TBH, I was thinking of the games themselves.