Robby Dosier
English 2
4th Hour
‘Video Games Make Society Less
Violent’ by Brandon Nadeau, is about how crime rate has decreased since video
games got popular in 1995. Jack Thompson believes it has increased though and
will stand by his word. Although Thompson
isn’t all that correct with the crime rate being a new record low every year.
Video games do not increase crime
rates.
Video games show children or
teenagers that it isn’t cool to kill someone. Brandon Nadeau, author of ‘Video
Games Make Society Less Violent’, says that “Since video games became a
mainstream industry, around the time Playstaion came out in 1995, the violent
crime rate has decreased singnificaly” (273). This is obviously very striking
to some people, but no to me. It really isn’t surprising at all, because I play
shooting games, and I never to myself that would be cool to do in real life.
Actually people that watch violent movies are more amped up then gamers. Gamers
were asked to play a game on hours on end. Nadeau said that the results “showed
the players were more friendly and amicable, as well as slower to rile, than
before the game was played” (273). When the researchers did the test with the
violent movies the viewers were the exact opposite than the games. This tells
me that when the gamers are involved with the game, or control it , makes it
easy for them to see it isn’t cool to take someone’s life away, even if it is
only a video game.
