‘Video Games Make Society Less Violent’

Robby Dosier

English 2

4^th 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.