Comments on: Why Shouldn’t I Play Violent Video Games? http://ldswhy.com/qa/why-shouldnt-i-play-violent-video-games/ Questions and Answers Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:34:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Rickymon http://ldswhy.com/qa/why-shouldnt-i-play-violent-video-games/comment-page-1/#comment-2770 Rickymon Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:15:15 +0000 http://ldswhy.com/qa/?p=859#comment-2770 This is a very interesting subject...! Im sure violence and gore would have some effect in our youth brains However there is always a life and death factor in all games, all video games has a certain ammount of lifes to play with, and in my experience kids find inmortal characters or invencible characters boring because it doesnt have any challenge to be an inmortal character, u will win anyway. If u think about some board games like strategy games, paint ball, cowboys role playing, and even chess is based on war and conquest, take prisoners, take the queen and kill the king. Perhaps in the near future chess boards would have tinny guillotines for its prisoners. Some inocent video games for kids like Gunbound are about to kill themselves and then u see a little spirit comming out of its tinny characters and even Mario Bross needs to kill the dragon at some point. SO, die, die, die, will be a part of our vocabulary at some point and I am pretty sure that it doesnt mean anything else than: I want to win. I'm a 40 year old gamer, I have been in the deepest and darkest dungeons of hell and have killed dozens of mythical creatures, using weapons that not even schwartzeneger would be able to have... And I am still here, instead of having bad feelings to my online enemies, I have made good friends from all over the world. Even when I have researched the gamming world intensively, I do not remember having bad feelings like rage or hate or any other after a game session. Because it is just a game. Some other games makes u think, some other estimulate ur creativity, and I think that it is a safe Computer based entertaiment compared to chat, facebook, MSN, HI5, secondlife, and other online friendship interfaces. No parent will leave his family for a mythical creature. However u could save that time to ur family. Of course there will be some psicolgical cases where violent video games would be very very wrong. However for those even watching the A team would be wrong. That "oversized me" documentary revealed that those levels of glucose on our public schools food, was one of the causes of violence and depression. Another thing we need to realize is that we cant be so indiferent to war and things related to this. We do not know if we always will enjoy our lifestyle, I dont believe that the Millenium will come as if it was xmas. We know problems will appear and we will need to fight for our country and our families, we will need to defend them, we will suffer persecution, even our dear Prophet J smith gave away his life with a gun on his hand, and saints from the time of restoration needed to deal with this in a daily bases. If the end is near, this gamming issue would be the least of our problems. This is a very interesting subject…!

Im sure violence and gore would have some effect in our youth brains
However there is always a life and death factor in all games, all video games has a certain ammount of lifes to play with, and in my experience kids find inmortal characters or invencible characters boring because it doesnt have any challenge to be an inmortal character, u will win anyway.
If u think about some board games like strategy games, paint ball, cowboys role playing, and even chess is based on war and conquest, take prisoners, take the queen and kill the king. Perhaps in the near future chess boards would have tinny guillotines for its prisoners.
Some inocent video games for kids like Gunbound are about to kill themselves and then u see a little spirit comming out of its tinny characters and even Mario Bross needs to kill the dragon at some point.
SO, die, die, die, will be a part of our vocabulary at some point and I am pretty sure that it doesnt mean anything else than: I want to win.

I’m a 40 year old gamer, I have been in the deepest and darkest dungeons of hell and have killed dozens of mythical creatures, using weapons that not even schwartzeneger would be able to have… And I am still here, instead of having bad feelings to my online enemies, I have made good friends from all over the world. Even when I have researched the gamming world intensively, I do not remember having bad feelings like rage or hate or any other after a game session. Because it is just a game.

Some other games makes u think, some other estimulate ur creativity, and I think that it is a safe Computer based entertaiment compared to chat, facebook, MSN, HI5, secondlife, and other online friendship interfaces. No parent will leave his family for a mythical creature.
However u could save that time to ur family.

Of course there will be some psicolgical cases where violent video games would be very very wrong. However for those even watching the A team would be wrong. That “oversized me” documentary revealed that those levels of glucose on our public schools food, was one of the causes of violence and depression.

Another thing we need to realize is that we cant be so indiferent to war and things related to this. We do not know if we always will enjoy our lifestyle, I dont believe that the Millenium will come as if it was xmas.
We know problems will appear and we will need to fight for our country and our families, we will need to defend them, we will suffer persecution, even our dear Prophet J smith gave away his life with a gun on his hand, and saints from the time of restoration needed to deal with this in a daily bases.

If the end is near, this gamming issue would be the least of our problems.

]]> By: Natalie Robison http://ldswhy.com/qa/why-shouldnt-i-play-violent-video-games/comment-page-1/#comment-1406 Natalie Robison Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:37:57 +0000 http://ldswhy.com/qa/?p=859#comment-1406 I had the unique opportunity of teaching a group of youth at a local juvenile detention center. In my preparations to teach I happened upon an article describing the addictive nature of smoking. I learned that the nicotine in cigarettes stimulates the nervous system creating an initial high; however, once the body becomes accustomed to the nicotine the nervous system goes haywire if it doesn't get it. The only way to calm the frazzled nerves is to smoke another cigarette. This is how addiction begins and at this point it becomes very, very difficult to quit because the body now NEEDS the nicotine just to feel normal. What does this have to do with violent video games? I asked the youth at the detention center what there favorite video games were. They all started talking excitedlty about these awful games, describing in great detail the most graphic violence imaginable - each trying to out do the other. I continued my lesson by trying to help them recognize how the playing of violent video games causes feelings of anxiety and aggression which can lead to violent behavior. One teenage boy raised his had and disagreed with me saying that when he is upset and anxious he plays violent games to calm down. I was reminded of how smoking has become an addiction when it is needed to calm one's nerves and immediately saw the connection with this young man and his reaction to violent video games. Out of all the youth in the room, he was the one I was most scared for because the only way he knew how to calm down was by using violence. Knowing this about him, what do you think would happen if he got upset with his girlfriend? How do you think he would calm himself down? You got it - with violence! Now I don't know for sure what happened that ended him up at the detention center - but based on his response, I have a pretty good idea. And I'd be willing to bet that he'll continue to end in detention until he's behind bars for good. Why? Because he has already demonstrated his addiction to the chemicals released by the brain in response to violence. Do violent games affect you? You bet they do!! I had the unique opportunity of teaching a group of youth at a local juvenile detention center. In my preparations to teach I happened upon an article describing the addictive nature of smoking. I learned that the nicotine in cigarettes stimulates the nervous system creating an initial high; however, once the body becomes accustomed to the nicotine the nervous system goes haywire if it doesn’t get it. The only way to calm the frazzled nerves is to smoke another cigarette. This is how addiction begins and at this point it becomes very, very difficult to quit because the body now NEEDS the nicotine just to feel normal.
What does this have to do with violent video games? I asked the youth at the detention center what there favorite video games were.
They all started talking excitedlty about these awful games, describing in great detail the most graphic violence imaginable – each trying to out do the other. I continued my lesson by trying to help them recognize how the playing of violent video games causes feelings of anxiety and aggression which can lead to violent behavior. One teenage boy raised his had and disagreed with me saying that when he is upset and anxious he plays violent games to calm down. I was reminded of how smoking has become an addiction when it is needed to calm one’s nerves and immediately saw the connection with this young man and his reaction to violent video games. Out of all the youth in the room, he was the one I was most scared for because the only way he knew how to calm down was by using violence. Knowing this about him, what do you think would happen if he got upset with his girlfriend? How do you think he would calm himself down? You got it – with violence! Now I don’t know for sure what happened that ended him up at the detention center – but based on his response, I have a pretty good idea. And I’d be willing to bet that he’ll continue to end in detention until he’s behind bars for good. Why? Because he has already demonstrated his addiction to the chemicals released by the brain in response to violence.
Do violent games affect you? You bet they do!!

]]> By: Kia http://ldswhy.com/qa/why-shouldnt-i-play-violent-video-games/comment-page-1/#comment-1355 Kia Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:26:36 +0000 http://ldswhy.com/qa/?p=859#comment-1355 This talk by Elder Bednar last year was very good to help me understand why we should not. http://www.lds.org/broadcast/ces/0,7341,538-1-61-1681,00.html This talk by Elder Bednar last year was very good to help me understand why we should not.

http://www.lds.org/broadcast/ces/0,7341,538-1-61-1681,00.html

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