Child Psychologist Defends Violent Games
Posted February 8, 2008
News from GamePolitics:
Dr. Frank Gaskill, child psychologist, does not believe that violent video games are to blame for violent behavior. He says that many of these beliefs are based on, “fallacious assumptions, personal biases, political posturing and weak science.”
He also compares video games to comics saying that “In 1955, the U.S. Senate blasted comic books… Half a century later, violent video games are the comic books of our day.” He goes on to explain that “Correlations are just relationships between two variables; you can never say one causes the other. We could say that during the season when ice cream sales increase, shark attacks also increase. But we could not say the more ice cream you sell, the more you cause shark attacks.”
He makes some very interesting points, all of which can be read on his blog.
Read the Full article here: Child Psychologist Scoffs at Video Game Violence Arguments
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yups.. i agree that violent video games do not make violent people. however, games that says bad words will teach children to use bad words…
I agree. Still, it is up to parents, or the mature individual, not politicians to decide who can buy the violent games.
It always happens though, people always feel the need to point the blame somewhere else. Why should the game be blamed for the kids violent behavior if the kid was already a nutjob to begin with? These people seem to think that violence was invented along with pong and space invaders.