"Hey son, why do you play these martial art games so much? Don't you remember what happened a few years ago to the kid in our neighborhood?" I stuttered for a second "Yes?" Mentioning old incidents over and over always make people irritated. It really annoys me when my relatives or my parents say video games are bad, especially those that aren't suitable for the young, developing mind. I've been playing video games for twelve years; I have my own reasons and passion to play games for such a long time. I know the majority of people have their own special thing to do too, probably for the rest of their lives if possible. Like me, I want to play video games forever. But there are problems involved with video games that I encounter all the time; one phrase I hear all the time: they are not worth to spend time for, and they are violent and lacking of the education. How do I tell people that games aren't like that?.
Technically, blaming video games is not wrong if the users that play games that contain mature contents are six years old; therefore, the fault is one hundred percent due to failed parenting and not the games'. The most common issue when people mention video games is violence, more precisely we should call it "gaming aggression". It is really hard to create an experiment to prove the link between video games and real life violence. Dr. Brad Bushman, a University of Michigan psychologist who studies the effects of media violence, states, "While the general public equates aggression with violent behavior, actual violent behavior has never been measured "for obvious reasons. We can't have people assault, rape, or murder someone in the lab. " ("Violent Video Games Do Not Cause Aggression. ") Word choice in sensitive issue, like about gaming, does make a difference when a research article is published widely for people to read. If someone tells me that I am aggressive, I usually take it one way; I would shove everything out of my path to my goal; someone might get "hurt", not necessarily physical injuries or anything, but that is not against anything outside of standard rules, life or in the game; therefore, it is an acceptable behavior.
