chocoloco said:
Truthfully, he only played the game for a minute and it was a younger brother who gave him the controller, but I dont think that short of exposure would harm a child from such a short experience. Yes, adults sould keep very young children from great exposure to such violent games. Yet, the media would complain about certain games just to make an interesting story or arguement to get viewers. They really don't care about the isssue they just want viewers/money. I am a psychology major and I took developmental psych were they talk of this and I think short exposure leaves little signigficant results to a young developing mind. Still I'm no expert. We better not seriously derail this guy thread. LOL |
I agree when you say that media exposure from this kind of issues is more about viewers/money than actual concern. Unfortunatly, that sometimes has backlashes to some gaming markets, especially here in Europe, where some countries even go to greater lengths to ban those type of games.
In your case, a short exposure will most likely not leave even a slight recordation for the child, I had thought that he was allowed to play a great session of it, so i'm sorry for my previous comment
Also, as Xbbjf9s has put it, violent video games aren't the most violent experience a child could have. There's lot of violence in today's world, and most of it isn't even put into a physical manner. Psychological abuse and forms of conditioning are severely more damaging to a developing mind than any video game.
I'll take your advice on not derailing this member's thread any further I just think that this issue should be debated more often, as the only time we hear about it is when the media does a biased "study" on it.
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