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Whoa, I just wrote an essay about almost the exact same thing. Okay, it was challenging the idea that T.V. causes violence, but it's close enough.

Thats because Rated M stands for Mild.

 

~AA

Here here!

 

Now I must train to assasinate the president of the United Stated by playing the Hitman series![/sarcasm]

I wish parents were smarter. That would solve a lot of these issues if they just had some common sense.

 

TAK

Unfortuneatly, there are a few flaws with your rant.

 

First a M rating means that individuals 17 and older can buy the game, and if you're 17 you're a minor. Therefore, M rated games are targeted toward minors. Now I know that there is only a year difference between 17 and 18, but 17 still means you are a minor.

 

Second, the problem with violent videogames is not because they train people to become murders; there is the possiblity that it will desensitize people to the violence, especially young people. That means that they become used to the violence and killing, which is bad.

 

Third, violent videogames can give a person a basic understanding of how weapons work; like this:

 

'If I take this gun, aim down the sights, and shot that guy in the head, it will kill him.'

 

Those are the problems with violent videogames, but that can all be avoided if the player is mature enough to handle it. Oh wait! M stands for mature. How ironic.

I beat you to the essay. I wrote an essay about the same thing, except it was more wide-ranged and was finished 2 months ago.

 

Eh, that rant was weird.

 

But still, I did say that companies are working to tone these down. Want GTA, get Chinatown Wars. It's less explicit.

 

And Tafu's right. Kids who are exposed to this will eventually adapt to it, since early childhood is the time when people get used to things. See this, and they'll go bad.

 

And one thing I want to point out that you missed is that you don't have to kill. You could go buy a car and just be a good civilian and beat down some criminals. Or you could get a car and make it like an NFS game. Free Roam. That's why it's called sandbox.

 

But I had my essay wider-ranged. From brain-numbing (false) to obesity (again false). Plus, you'll see gamers make better surgeons and drivers.

I actually don't get the ESRB's rating system. For example, Halo Reach. A great game with amazing graphics, solid storyline, and incredible multiplayer. In the campaign, it has extensive swearing, but not even meriting a Mild Language rating, but at least a Language rating. Yet, it is only rated M for Blood and Violence. Yet games like Call of Duty Black Ops, with an option in the Options Menu allows you reduce graphic content at will still gets Rated M for Strong Language, Blood & Gore, and others. How is that right?