Tech-Fund Debate

Tech-Fund Debate 245.6 million. That’s how many videogames were sold in the US in the year of 2012, versus the 162 million books sold in 2012. We live in a day and age where technology is at its prime, and everyone is using it for almost everything. Videogames have come a long way since when our parents would sit down and play a game of Donkey Kong. They have become more graphic and high tech. Influencing and promoting violence as if it is acceptable and there is no punishment for it. It teaches our generation that it is admissible to waste countless hours playing a violent videogame that is all but a disadvantage to us in the long run. Videogames are promoting violence, lethality of playing these games, long term effects, and the time consumption.
  

Video game is about bullying behavior in a school setting. There are plenty of psychological brutality and physical violence. The study found that the majority of young male subjects regularly played violent, M-rated video games. What they didn't find was a significant correlation between playing these games and a general increase in violent behavior. Furthermore, Kutner and Olsen found that the motivation for playing video games for most kids isn't a result of reclusive or antisocial tendencies. Kids usually play video games for excitement and escape from boredom and stress. They also note that kids in the study were capable of recognizing and separating real-world violence from fantasy in-game violence. Video games contribute or cause an increase in violent behavior," A research review done by NCTV (1990) found that nine of twelve research studies on the impact of violent video games on normal children and adolescents reported harmful effects video game playing has not been implicated as a direct cause of severe psychopathology research suggests that there is a short-term relationship between playing violent games and increased aggressive behavior in younger.     


Also, video games are very lethal. There have been numerous deaths in America and in other parts of the world that have been advocated by video games. Video games are very violent and can encourage kids towards violence or desensitize them to death and killing people. Kids today think that going around with guns and killing people is fun. People that have caused school shootings have said, “Video games showed me how to do this.” Do we really want our youth to know how to kill people? No, we don’t. Also, the addiction to video games could cause people to do things that are just unreal. For example, Tyrone Spellman is one of the worst people you’ll ever read about. A man in love with his Xbox, Spellman went insane when his 17-month-old daughter, Alayiah, accidentally pulled the cords out of the wall. Rather than ensure the child’s safety or just fix things and move on, Spellman cracked her skull repeatedly, killing her. He got up to 47 years in prison for the crime. Another time there was a couple so consumed up in video games that they ended up neglecting their 3 children, to the point where they were in conditions no kid should be in. Conditions of being naked and covered in their own feces, because the kids were not old enough to take care of themselves. You can see from these examples, that video games are lethal to the people’s mind and their health.


There are many long term effects on playing video games such as addiction. Playing long amounts of video games can get you addicted. Large amounts of kids are playing violent video games, and some are able to recognize the difference between fantasy and reality, but some immerse in the violence and it makes them prone to rash decisions. Video games can ruin your relationship with others, because you become so consumed. These games reward kids for violence and teach them that it is okay and acceptable to act that way in real life. “Playing video games could be compared to smoking cigarettes. A single cigarette won’t cause lung cancer, but smoking over weeks or months or years greatly increases the risk. In the same way, repeated exposure to violent video games may have a cumulative effect on aggression.” People who play prolonged amounts of video games may see the word as a more violent and hostile place. Investigators discovered people who played a violent video game for three consecutive days showed increases in aggressive behavior and hostile expectations each day they played. They also found that those who played nonviolent games showed no meaningful changes in aggression or hostile expectations over that period.


   Playing long amounts of video games can get you addicted and it is hard to stop playing them. Especially Teenagers spend more time playing games, which denies them there sleeping time or doing other activities. The time some spend in playing games may jump from few to 10 hours a day, which can be used for something more productive. There would be great outcome. Consuming up to 16 hours in playing video game might cause mental break downs. Here are the list of video games that consumes people time, Call of duty, god of war, resident evil, the fallen lords, super Mario 64, metal gear solid, tomb raider, black ops, kill zone, pro evolution, Army of two, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, street fighter, infamous, uncharted, demons soul, prince of Persia, the last of us, grand theft auto, beyond, sky lander , Mario cart, doom, street jam and so on. This list of games is highly addictive and time consuming and can limit a human understanding and the ability to engage in other school or productive activities. Kids frequently spend too much time playing video games alone can foster social isolation. Children who spend more than ten hours on a video game mostly won’t perform as well in school as kids their age who spend less time on video games. Setting limits on video games is extremely important to consider, and checking the total amount of time you spend in front of all electronic screens such as: video games.


In spite of objections from public opinion, many students can't draw themselves away from video games. It seems that the more they are prohibited from playing the games, the more they are tempted to do so. Many students indulge themselves in playing these games. Video games are harmful to both the individual and society in many ways. First, they endanger the young people‘s health. Sitting in front of the computer for hours on end is bad for the player's eyesight as well as his entire physique. Secondly, they distract the young people's attention from their work and study. Absorbed in the games, the player often forgets to go to work or class. Sometimes even if they are at work or in class, they are still thinking of the games they played or are going to play after work or after class. As a result, they quickly fall behind others in their work and study. Thirdly, they lead young people to moral degradation. Some young people are especially interested in games that are filled with violence. If they play these games a long time, they may also settle disagreements through violence, which may give rise to higher crime rate. Therefore, it is time we took effective measures to solve this problem. On the one hand, young people should be made fully aware of the danger of video games. On the other, illegal video game houses should be eliminated, and software producers should be encouraged to make more beneficial video games in the future. From what we have discussed above, we can safety arrive at the conclusion that video games are harmful for teenagers.