PERSUASIVE ESSAY

Videogames are the most famous entertainment activity in the XXI Century. About an 80% of the children have videogames at home. It is considered one of the best businesses, because everybody desires it. Playing video games is very fun for everybody; there is a lot of variety and different types of video games. There is PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, Wii, Game Boy, PSP, Computer games, and so on. Something they all have in common is the fact that they all game violent games involved, which mean that all the children that play video games are involved into violence. Shown by studies, that provokes consequences to the children’s mind. Boys from ages 7-18 play this games quiet often, instilling slowly violent thoughts in their minds. Children that play these games are shown to be more aggressive, to have violent reactions and tend to be anti-social. Some get scared, paranoiac and insecure. Any video game that contains violence should be banned from sale. There are one of the reasons why in the U.S teen violence has increased so much. The teens and children spend more time watching TV, or playing video games than they do inside a classroom. Games like Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Battlefield and 007 are clear examples of violent video games. The goals of these games are to kill as many people as the player can and therefore go to a “higher level” or to” pass the missions”. Unconsciously this sends a message to the players, that with violence they will achieve things easier, and so is their behavior. The children are victims of the hidden message that TV and video games give them and their mood is modified into aggressive and sadist. Violence is attractive to anyone, humans enjoy watching others suffer, yet is wrong. The producer of the video games’ only interest is to sell, and they sell by making the games about violence, they don’t care if the child or teenager that buys it will become an assassin after playing their games. School shooting has become a common event in the U.S. and violent TV and video games have taught the criminals how to use the weapons, making them professionals murders. By age 12 the average child has witnessed at least 8,000 murders and more than 100,000 other acts of violence on television. “The 14 years old killer in the Paducah, Kentucky, school shooting had never fired a real pistol in his life. Nevertheless he fired eight shots, five of them head shots, the other three upper torso shots, killing 8 children. Where did he get the skill and will to kill? Most likely from violent video games and media violence, pared with a lack of adult guidance.” If these games are banned, the violent mentality could probably reduce significantly. Video Games inventors could create games that involve some kind of educational subjects or moral values. To change a corrupted society we have to start at the mind of our young ones.