Television, the internet and videogames. The process of elimination told us that one of them had to be responsible for bad behaviour amongst youngsters, new research published earlier this week at the Institute of Specious Reasoning confirmed videogames’ role in the growing youth problem. Of the 1500 teenagers tested, 5 out of 10 admitted to enjoying playing the game which featured violent content. Game creators contest that fictional violence is a perfectly acceptable means toward cathartic entertainment and that beating a prostitute to death is not at all ‘wrong’, people who enjoy such graphic imagery should be strung up!The violence does not just stay fictional as these so called ‘entertainers’ would have you believe, there have been literally several cases of teenagers admitting that videogames where wholly responsible for their crimes! Videogames’ influence can be seen in almost all youth crimes, the youths involved owning or having played or simply knowing of the existence a piece of electronic gaming is as good as a direct admission of videogames’ accountability.
“These videogames are putting almost no effort into raising our children to be decent citizens! It’s disgusting that they refuse to admit responsibility for where they’ve gone wrong, trying to blame everyone but themselves.”
Community projects to try to lower gun and youth crime have even been targeted by the foul corruption of gaming. Church communities within Manchester have been trying to help disillusioned youngsters who are stuck in gangs full of group solidarity and are confused and warped by poor values, “They join gangs with an identity, hanging round with other people like them for a sense of community and security, trying to justify their actions with what they have been told to believe. Obviously it’s very difficult to find any common ground with them.”
The clash with gaming’s influence finally occurred when the church’s building was featured in one particular game, staging a bloody battle within its walls. The rector was appalled, as the fighting didn’t portray the true views of the church.
“The church is not a place you expect to see violent imagery!”




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