Pros And Cons Of Simulated Violence
Role Playing games with simulated violence are perilous for kids. At St. Ann’s private school in New York, they have a game called killer. A simulated killing game, where they use water guns to try to “kill” other students who are participating in killer. Although killer may be fun for a lot of the kids it definitely has some risk for the student. For example student are breaking the law, being reckless to others, and acting like fake killing someone is worth celebrating just so they can win the game.
In order to win, a couple of students are breaking laws. Willis Cohen wanted to win so much, that he had his teammate hack into a remote computer and change the caller I.D. to call up their target and see if he was home or not. Not only …show more content…
Cohen hopped a neighbor’s fence and went through his neighbor's house. He then went into a taxi. The taxi driver refused to roll the window up, so Cohen got shot with the water gun and probably got water all over the taxi. He was being very disrespectful to his neighbors and the taxi driver. He could have caused damage to the taxi because of his reckless behavior.
Lastly, why role playing games with simulated violence should not be played by kids is because they think it is okay to fake kill someone. They don’t only think it’s okay, they also celebrate. The games could make kids be more comfortable around violence, so maybe later in their life they could end up actually hurting someone. Simulated games can motivate kids to actually try hurting or killing someone. The kids that play killer think it is exciting to fake kill someone but others would think differently.
Overall, simulated violence games could put kids in dangerous situations and make them experience consequences. Many people play these games for fun, but there are other healthy choices you can do instead of “killing” people. Go hangout with you friends at the park, don’t plot on how you are going to shot someone with a squirt gun when they are coming outside of their
In order to win, a couple of students are breaking laws. Willis Cohen wanted to win so much, that he had his teammate hack into a remote computer and change the caller I.D. to call up their target and see if he was home or not. Not only …show more content…
Cohen hopped a neighbor’s fence and went through his neighbor's house. He then went into a taxi. The taxi driver refused to roll the window up, so Cohen got shot with the water gun and probably got water all over the taxi. He was being very disrespectful to his neighbors and the taxi driver. He could have caused damage to the taxi because of his reckless behavior.
Lastly, why role playing games with simulated violence should not be played by kids is because they think it is okay to fake kill someone. They don’t only think it’s okay, they also celebrate. The games could make kids be more comfortable around violence, so maybe later in their life they could end up actually hurting someone. Simulated games can motivate kids to actually try hurting or killing someone. The kids that play killer think it is exciting to fake kill someone but others would think differently.
Overall, simulated violence games could put kids in dangerous situations and make them experience consequences. Many people play these games for fun, but there are other healthy choices you can do instead of “killing” people. Go hangout with you friends at the park, don’t plot on how you are going to shot someone with a squirt gun when they are coming outside of their