YouGov poll suggests 61% of Brits feel games cause real world violence

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SlayerRondo said:

Kasz216 said:

SlayerRondo said:

Kasz216 said:

Cubedramirez said:

DJEVOLVE said:

 

The NRA does not have a point actually. The top ten nations in terms of violent video game consumption contain nine of the least violent nations. America is the exeption to this and guns are the outlier along with an extreme crime rate.

Also using guns has been shown to increase violent tendancies temporarily just like video games but to a greater degree, not to metion the increased ability they provide for these outliing killers.

The causal link between violent media and actual crimes does not exist like the clear link between guns availibility and mass shootings.

But I still oppose gun restriction along side video games restriction as I believe freedom comes at a cost we should be willing to pay. It is just the absurdity of people who support the second amendment comming after thoose who support the first.

You are joking right?

Videogames are expensive, therefore, they are most consumed, violent and non, in richer societies which tend to have less crime.

Actual causation and correlation goes a hell of a lot deeper then that.

 

Nor am I talking about "temporary violent tendencies" analysis.  I'm talking about culture.  As in a persistant state of people being more violent due to culture being more violenet.

First of all starting off with "You are joking right?" will not sway me to back off and is a rather pathetic attempt to do so.

Secondly video games are not nearly are expensive as you would claim them to be as rather than no games poor nations revert to increased video game piracy to compentate for lack of income. 

We can also see a clear correlation between increased video game consumption and decreased violent crime rates over the past few decades. 

I agree that American culture has always been more violent than others but that egg came long before the violent video game chicken.

I asked if you were joking because the confounding variable in what you said was extremely obvious.

Also, as for videogames not being that expensive... again are you kidding?  Videogames are extremely expensive.  Espiecally in third world countries where the consoles cost 2-3 times what they'd cost in USD despite salaries being 3-5 times later.   You can't piracy your way through that.  Which is why videogame consumption is so low in poor nations.

As for violence and decreasing crime rates.... again that's far to simple a correltion, ignoring actual reason violent crime is down.  (Abortions if you believe outliers.)   The same exact thing can be said with guns... and actually can be said better because they've done studies involving individual US states.  Allowing the ability to see the differences among the same nationallity of people with different laws.

 

As for the last part... I didn't say videogames caused american culture to be more violent.  It sure as hell is part of the culture of violence though.  You'd be ignorant to think otherwise.