prepare and submit a paper on are video games immoral and do they promote violence in our society.
Violence in our society has increased significantly over the period of time. people have completely forgotten the values which ones made a peaceful world. This has happened because of a lot of reasons, one of the biggest reasons is the violence portrayed in movies and especially video games. The demand for violent video games is constantly increasing and the producers of such games have found this to be a very lucrative business. The gaming industry is booming, Kinect which was launched by Microsoft for Xbox 360 recorded astronomical sales figures earlier this year, when SONY released their PS 3 people users just could not get enough of it, there are other gaming consoles like Wii, Nintendo and so on which have almost become part and parcel of our lives, there have been several studies conducted on the change of human behavior because of playing violent and immoral video games and some shocking results have been brought to our notice by the scientists.
Violence and aggression increase when one plays violent video games, this is why the ratings were introduced, but these days no one cares about the ratings, kids play games that they should never be allowed to play, this is why we witness numerous knife and gun crimes on the street, movies, and video games are adversely impacting our society.
Several parents discourage their children from playing violent video games because these games depict graphic violence, in games like God of War and a few others there are several explicit scenes which explicitly show blood and other unimaginable acts of violence, God of War is a game series which is incredibly popular, this game has been played by several kids, the game box clearly states that the game is only for adults but several children feel that the rating is nothing but dubious. Such games trigger off a lot of unwanted emotions in children, parents should always ensure that kids stay as far away as plausible from such violent games. Killing is an unforgivable act in our society, it is certainly immoral and against the law to kill a person, we have started enjoying the sinful act of killing and this is surely immoral. .
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