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Most kids can’t have fun without playing video games at least once per day
nowadays. And it can be useful as it can be a learning journey for your child and giving them early on experience and many fields to choose from. But this could also be harmful as games that contain gore and violence which could reflect a false image to the children playing those type of games. To add on, some kids even rage while losing in such games. Because of such a great danger should all video games with violence be banished by the government?
Video games are inspired from real life, even if they are fictional; They use either human characters or human-like characters to aid the storyline. Which would make some kids would set unrealistic expectations for the children. Children also tend to follow online trends which could be setting these fictional characters as idols or worse as divine creatures that they should worship. Which could lead to violence or gore to be influenced on the child as he grows up and becomes a teenager and has a better understanding of the world. A child can even be isolated so much in the immersive experience of video games to the point they become introverts and get bullied at school due to it written in the public and approved Journal of Youth and Adolescence. To conclude the fact that video games are inspired from real life could set unrealistic expectations to the children.
Secondly not only are video games being inspired from real life cause a lot of problems to the children; But also, the media pushes the children to extreme limits. As the article Financial Inclusion, Household Decision-making and Child Health Outcome in Nigeria, says that 2 in 3 children have a device that they use freely which makes children explore. Go on YouTube that leads them to twitter that leads them to adult like conversation, normalizing blood and violence in their minds. As many cultures also forbid the use of blood in games or non-humans like Chinese culture. To summarize social media can cause violence to be normalized in children’s minds as well as many cultures like Chinese forbid the use of blood in games.
Thirdly nowadays there are ratings on game. E being for everyone, E10+ being for everyone over the age of 10, T being for Teens, M being for mature and A being for adults. This is to warn parents before purchasing a game that their child can’t play the game without supervision; 84% of games actually give correct ratings. But, only 73% of parents look at the ratings when purchasing video games that’s away from the other from parents who look at it and find it mature or adult and give it to their children normally. It isn’t illegal but it still exposes the child to gore and violence which could lead to a gang like life or even jail time. To conclude, there are correct ratings on games but parents who don’t focus on that or are ignorant could lead for their children having trauma or cause a troubled life for the child.
Finally, Because of such great danger should all video games with violence be banished by the government? As stated in the first body all games have human or human like characters which could lead to them being idols or kids even worshipping them which would both be culturally, morally unethical and could cause kids to get caught up in violence or gore. In the second body it shows that 2 in 3 kids have a device to play games on which is dangerous as a lot of social medias contain adults talking which could normalize the idea of violence and gore in their underdeveloped minds. In the 3 rd paragraph a lot of parents let their children play such high age rated games without supervision which could cause idolism to the characters or even having trauma.
