Why Do Violent Role Playing Games Cause Violence?

Violent role-playing games are a hotly disputed subject within the close-knit communities of parents, educators, and video game designers. Parents argue that they are degrading for their children and educators tend to lean towards the angle that their students do not benefit from the influence of games with violence in them, or ban elementary-school level children from pretending to fight during recess because of, they claim, safety reasons. However, these types of games are educational and beneficial for children, especially if in future life they plan to serve in the military or in any high-ranked government or business position (for the same reasons that businessmen often read Sun Tzu 's The Art of War). They can teach valuable life lessons, they provide an outlet for violent thoughts and feelings, are entertaining, and can stop people from committing real homicides.
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Although it is a common belief that violent games cause violent thoughts and thus cause people (mostly young men, per a recent study) to commit homicides or massacres, the truth is that multiple studies have been conducted and more of the results have been in favor of homicides being carried out by people who already harbored violence within and did not play many violent video games. People who play violent video games are less likely to attempt murders. "This…digital blood o*** must have some kind of effect on [life.]" says staff writer for TechHive Evan Dashevsky. "There is data suggesting it does, however…it…may directly contribute directly to making society less violent… According to [economist Steve] Lewitt, potential criminals aren 't committing crimes because they are spending so much time playing violent video games." (Dashevsky 1) Because budding murderers are spending