In todays society experts believe ‘games’ are the cause of violence and that they should be banned, but theses games in no way promote violence onto impressionable teens . Furthermore, games that have violence should not be banned from teenagers.
Everyone has memories as a child of playing freeze tag. Well a similar game is played between high schools except it involves water guns and high intelligence . This game is commonly referred to as assassination, it is a game in which high school students, have teams and as teams there goal is to “take out” other students with water guns (Martin,High-Jinks: Shoot-out,2009).The catch is that school is the safe place, and the point of the activity is to teach students the real world is harsh while school is the safe place (Martin,High-Jinks: Shoot-out,2009) .These types of games should not be banned from schools.These type of games DO NOT teach violence as some will argue. These games promote strategical and tactical skills which can benefit them in the future. They gain these skills by being required to devise a plan in which they must stake out a target(s) and “take them out”,outside of school before a deadline.
Another game that is a cause for concern are video games, GTA-V is an example of one, many argue it is negative and has devastating effects. This is because you can drive through stop lights,commit vehicular manslaughter, crash and die and start over after the screen says “wasted”, get in ridiculous gunfights and still walk away. The other option is to just go clothes shopping,play darts, or hunt deer. We are given large number of possibilities, and the freedom to make outlandish regrettable decisions in an alternative version of reality. Most people however can see this for what it really is: a way to escape the world. This virtual world allows people to blow off steam and release their feelings safely. Even though some claim GTA is responsible for crimes, they would be wrong because that would mean the over 18 million people that buy that game would be committing unrealistic crimes, which their not (Kain,Do Games Like 'Grand Theft Auto V' Cause Real-World Violence?, 2013).
However GTA V has strong sexual content which many argue is negative on children. Which it is, considering how high quality the speech and video quality in these games are. The type of sexually content portayed is graphic visual content in a strip club, and descriptive conversations with prostitutes (Usher, GTA 5 First-Person Videos Feature Controversial Sex Scenes, 2014). This type of exposure is bad for teens, but however these actions are optional in this game and are not forced onto teens. Also this games comes with a parental advisory on the front which states there is sexual content, as well as other things, which a parent would notice when purchasing the game for their child under the age of 17.
Games should not be banned from teens because of the negatives, but kept because of the overwhelming positives in them. Games like Assassination and Grand Theft Auto V promote strategic thinking and precision, therefore shouldn’t be banned despite the concerns of vigilant parents. Theses ‘games’ can also give teens, skills they may need in a career, such as quick thinking and the ability to stay calm in a stressful situation.
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Susan (Susie) Parker a born and raised St.Louisan, she is a vigorous writer and a soon to be millionaire, hopefully. She hopes to live in Arizona and travel the world. She currently is a student and aspiring business owner or lawyer.
Great evidence. I agree with you all of the way
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