Video Game Pop Culture Misunderstanding
Our society isn't safe for our children anymore because of drugs and alcohol abuse, sex, violence, war, playing video gamesÂ…Playing video games? This is the last straw; some video games are made the focus of controversy when much better things can be argued over. Well, don't get me wrong, some of these games show horrific acts of and much less to our kids. Also in 1992 "A recent survey found that 92 percent of U.S. kids--ages 2 to 17--play video games, and their parents bought 225 million of them last year to the tune of $6.4 billion." (Sider 79).What's here to argue is that violent video games do not cause violence among children, but the blame for violence should be on the individual and people who should have taught the individual better. If kids are not able to see the difference between reality and fantasy, then they really can't be blamed for committing acts they see in a game and then imitating, not fully understanding the......
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