Violent Video Games Cause Behavior Problems
Violent Video Games Cause Behavior Problems
Name: Muhammad Abdullah Asif Khan
ID: 11221010
SEC: 03
COURSE: ENG102
Date: 4/3/2012
TERM PAPER
Imagine yourself in a scenario where you are killing fifty zombie pedestrians ruthlessly one by one with a chain-saw in front of a food court. Red hot blood is gushing from their open cuts with a gurgling sound which engulfs your mind in a trance from which you cannot get out. Wait! It’s not over yet. One zombie avoids the swipe of your blade and reaches you. Its white teeth glisten in the moonlight as it is coming closer to your neck and you open your mouth to scream! Quite an intimidating scene, isn’t it? It subdues even a guileless person’s mind with an overwhelming sense of violence and a sort of primitive pleasure and the seed of this sort of sensation lies within the deep recesses of our mind. It’s a scene from a popular video game called “A Night of the Dead” which is quite popular among thousands of children and teenagers. Just think for a moment what kind of mental damage this game could inflict upon the unripe minds of children who don’t understand the difference between right or wrong. What kind of sense of morality they would grow with if they continue to watch these kinds of violent content over and anon? As preposterous it seems it is the real picture of today’s almost every youth with a computer at his disposal. The rapid aggression of technology made it easy for the youth to lay their hands on such things as violent video games for passing their leisure hours. They pass their idle hours killing unreal persons in a virtual world while fidgeting with their controllers. The important thing which they don’t know is playing these games essentially leads them to such a miserable situation where they are going to experience a drastic change in their behavior such as growing aggressive through watching violent contents, reenact them in their real life which often leads to crime and become so engrossed in
Name: Muhammad Abdullah Asif Khan
ID: 11221010
SEC: 03
COURSE: ENG102
Date: 4/3/2012
TERM PAPER
Imagine yourself in a scenario where you are killing fifty zombie pedestrians ruthlessly one by one with a chain-saw in front of a food court. Red hot blood is gushing from their open cuts with a gurgling sound which engulfs your mind in a trance from which you cannot get out. Wait! It’s not over yet. One zombie avoids the swipe of your blade and reaches you. Its white teeth glisten in the moonlight as it is coming closer to your neck and you open your mouth to scream! Quite an intimidating scene, isn’t it? It subdues even a guileless person’s mind with an overwhelming sense of violence and a sort of primitive pleasure and the seed of this sort of sensation lies within the deep recesses of our mind. It’s a scene from a popular video game called “A Night of the Dead” which is quite popular among thousands of children and teenagers. Just think for a moment what kind of mental damage this game could inflict upon the unripe minds of children who don’t understand the difference between right or wrong. What kind of sense of morality they would grow with if they continue to watch these kinds of violent content over and anon? As preposterous it seems it is the real picture of today’s almost every youth with a computer at his disposal. The rapid aggression of technology made it easy for the youth to lay their hands on such things as violent video games for passing their leisure hours. They pass their idle hours killing unreal persons in a virtual world while fidgeting with their controllers. The important thing which they don’t know is playing these games essentially leads them to such a miserable situation where they are going to experience a drastic change in their behavior such as growing aggressive through watching violent contents, reenact them in their real life which often leads to crime and become so engrossed in
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