Videogames

a) According to the film, what are some pros and cons of playing videogames for individuals and societies?

b) According the film, is there any evidence that digital games can encourage aggressive values and anti-social actions in the real world? Do you agree?

c) Should governments have the right to ban certain games? Why or why not?




Having fun actually is the main purpose for people of different ages to play videogames. People get happiness when they immerse themselves in games and escaping from the real world. They can do whatever they want and don't need to consider about the morality problems, for example, shooting or killing others in various ways. I think game is a good way to reduce the criminal rate as people could release their pressure and fulfill their crazy dream by playing vediogames. Though sometimes game is treated as the helper of wasting time, but when we look this issue as a whole, which means from the perspective of the whole society, I believe game contributes a lot and definately play a possitive role. If there is no game, some people may go crazy as their thought of being crazy and insane once has no way to become true. Everybody knows crazy people are dangerous.

Yes, there are evidence demonstrating the aggressive values and anti-social actions because people play the digital games. A teenage boy took a gun to school and shoot many times. He shoot at people's face which even killers would not like to do the same thing. I agree that some games may arouse the ugly human nature and make people become more violent. I think violence is part of human nature and for most of the time, it's hiden for the sake of morality or reputation. Then there has violent games, people who are addicted into it too much to tell the difference between games and true world are more likely to act violent. So it's better if principles of morality could be put into the game and become part of the game so that people who play violent games could aware of right and wrong. Anyway, I think a much larger number of ciminals will emerge if there's no violent games as I mentioned in the 1st paragraph. So it's not that bad even if anti-social actions take place some times.

Certainly government should not have the right to ban such games. We should consider violent vediogames help maintain the peace of our society. It offers a way for people to satisfy their desire of being violent. When we notice that only a tiny number of people acting unormal after palying violent games, we should know most of people having the awareness of difference of games from reality and how to behave just in the real world. So it would be nice if vediogames could get a free developing environment.