Entertainment is essential to bring people together. It diverts people from a demanding life and amuses them in their leisure time. Entertainment can take various forms including music, movie, sport, drama. Usually, entertainment is joyful, pleasurable and fun. However, we can see a controversy about violent video games recently. In the article, “The Government Should Stop kids From Buying Violent Video Games,” the author Timothy F. Winter supports the government should prohibit the sale of ultraviolent video games. In addition, what we are talking about the ultraviolent video games where underage children are able to shoot a policeman, related to sexual assault and brutally beat. For him, the main problem is ultraviolent video game are harmful
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In this article, Timothy F. Winter reports “the overwhelming weigh of scientific research that these games can be harmful to children… more than 3,000 studies linking a child’s consumption of violent media to a child’s behavior”( Winter para.4) We can ascertain the fact that how the video games have been impacted on our kid’s unmoral behavior. For instance, when I was child I was used to play video games with my brother including violent video games. I thought the most enchanting places of playing violent games is by awarding points or by allowing players to advance to the next game level. In addition, in some games, I were rewarded through compliment such as “Nice Shot” when I killing an enemy and I could hear those verbal praise frequently. At that time, most of the vulnerable children including me, had not realized those violent games directly reward violent behavior. Initially, we just considered playing violent video games as a kind of entertainment. However, after being exposed to violence day by day, underage children can become emotionally numb to violence, it’s much easier for children to engage in violent act. In the article, Timothy F.Winter reports that people playing violent video games are actively involved in the undertaking of the violence such as choosing whom to kill, beat, rape or urinate on rather than sitting back and watching violence. (Winter para.5). Children are sponge, soaking up every verbal and nonverbal interaction said by Aas Don Brown. Children are vulnerable to change their mindset and do whatever they learn from surrounding which is love to simulate. For example, sometimes we could hear some kind of kids blurt out naughty words to other people and they do not recognized that verbal phrase whether good or bad. In fact, they just listen to people around them and repeat it. Similarly,
In this article, Timothy F. Winter reports “the overwhelming weigh of scientific research that these games can be harmful to children… more than 3,000 studies linking a child’s consumption of violent media to a child’s behavior”( Winter para.4) We can ascertain the fact that how the video games have been impacted on our kid’s unmoral behavior. For instance, when I was child I was used to play video games with my brother including violent video games. I thought the most enchanting places of playing violent games is by awarding points or by allowing players to advance to the next game level. In addition, in some games, I were rewarded through compliment such as “Nice Shot” when I killing an enemy and I could hear those verbal praise frequently. At that time, most of the vulnerable children including me, had not realized those violent games directly reward violent behavior. Initially, we just considered playing violent video games as a kind of entertainment. However, after being exposed to violence day by day, underage children can become emotionally numb to violence, it’s much easier for children to engage in violent act. In the article, Timothy F.Winter reports that people playing violent video games are actively involved in the undertaking of the violence such as choosing whom to kill, beat, rape or urinate on rather than sitting back and watching violence. (Winter para.5). Children are sponge, soaking up every verbal and nonverbal interaction said by Aas Don Brown. Children are vulnerable to change their mindset and do whatever they learn from surrounding which is love to simulate. For example, sometimes we could hear some kind of kids blurt out naughty words to other people and they do not recognized that verbal phrase whether good or bad. In fact, they just listen to people around them and repeat it. Similarly,