RioShooter
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Everyone has problably heard how playing violent video games can desensitize an individual to violent behavior. This is always presented as a negative effect of playing video games. However, for anyone who owns a firearm for personal protection this is a positive. I wonder how many times good guys have been shot because they hesitated to shoot the BG.
The following is an excerpt from a website condemning video violence:
Many, many studies have shown a definite correlation between the degree of violence in video-game viewing and the degree of aggressive behavior in the viewing children. In his book, Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill (Crown Publishers, New York, 1999) Lieutenant Colonel David Grossman, a psychologist at Arkansas State University and past specialist as a "killologist," points out that willingness to kill another person is not a natural behavior, but one that has to be taught by repeated desensitization and exposure to violence. He goes on to reveal that part of teaching soldiers to kill demands a conditioned response so that shooting a gun becomes automatic. According to Colonel Grossman, the Marine Corp uses modified versions of grossly violent video games (like the ones that allegedly motivated the Columbine carnage) to teach recruits how to kill. These are used to develop the "will to kill" by repeatedly rehearsing the act until it feels natural. Obviously, this technology is much more dangerous in the hands of kids than among soldiers and police. Grossman refers to violent video games as "murder simulators."
Website address: http://www.askdrsears.com/html/10/T101200.asp
My question is: Would it be a good idea to play games such as "Delta Force" , which is a first person shooting game, to become desensitzed to shooting another human? Do you think it would make a difference in a real violent encounter?
The following is an excerpt from a website condemning video violence:
Many, many studies have shown a definite correlation between the degree of violence in video-game viewing and the degree of aggressive behavior in the viewing children. In his book, Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill (Crown Publishers, New York, 1999) Lieutenant Colonel David Grossman, a psychologist at Arkansas State University and past specialist as a "killologist," points out that willingness to kill another person is not a natural behavior, but one that has to be taught by repeated desensitization and exposure to violence. He goes on to reveal that part of teaching soldiers to kill demands a conditioned response so that shooting a gun becomes automatic. According to Colonel Grossman, the Marine Corp uses modified versions of grossly violent video games (like the ones that allegedly motivated the Columbine carnage) to teach recruits how to kill. These are used to develop the "will to kill" by repeatedly rehearsing the act until it feels natural. Obviously, this technology is much more dangerous in the hands of kids than among soldiers and police. Grossman refers to violent video games as "murder simulators."
Website address: http://www.askdrsears.com/html/10/T101200.asp
My question is: Would it be a good idea to play games such as "Delta Force" , which is a first person shooting game, to become desensitzed to shooting another human? Do you think it would make a difference in a real violent encounter?