German Researchers Find the Missing Link to Violent Behavior
Two German researchers may have found the missing link between violent video games and violent behavior, and the answer may not be what you were expecting.
Renate and Rudi Hänsel have concluded that the Pentagon is to blame, for all the violent video games in the market today. For training purposes, the Pentagon often creates games such as America’s Army, in an effort to best prepare soldiers before being deployed. However, many of these games are accessible to the general public; and this fueled the surge of violent video games in the mid 90′s.
“During the nineties the killing simulators, employed for hand to hand combat in the US army and police, were released by the Pentagon to be sold for private use on the public markets. As a consequence the computer and video game industry that had co-operated with the Pentagon from the very beginning, boomed. Since then the so-called killer games have wreaked havoc among children and youths.
The US army’s electronic training programs for killing people must be taken back to the US barracks, where they came from. They have to disappear from civil society altogether. They may be appropriate for the purpose of national defense or fight against crime; they have no place, however, in children’s rooms or in living rooms.”
So, the real question is, how do you feel about this? Do you believe that the Pentagon should really be blamed? Post your thoughts in the comment section.
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18 Responses to “German Researchers Find the Missing Link to Violent Behavior”
huh…….well everyone is entitled to their own opinion…no matter how wrong they are
That’s not research.
I know what the missing link is between Video games and violence is. It’s the same missing link between T.V. shows and violence. And Books and violence. News and Violence. Guns and violence. Banana fruit pies and violenece.
It’s actually 3 things.
1. Is parenting and relationships
2. Is our frame of reference.
3. Us
There ya go. Now where is my grant money?
See a frame of reference is all your life experiences and how they play a point in your decision making skills. Example if you live in a war torn city… chances are pretty good you won’t be a buddhist. IMO.
Parents make a lot of direct and indirect affects as well. If your parents are cheating on each other… Or abuse each other, or read a lot, you’re more likely to follow their examples whether good or bad. Also if you don’t have steady human relationships either friends or lovers etc… that has major effects on your self as well.
Of course I’m an atheist, a gamer, someone who looks up porn all the time, but I don’t drink, I only smoke cigars a few times a month at most, I drink even less often cause i keep forgetting to… Plus I haven’t had sex.
My parents had sex when they were young, they were drinkers, they are smokers, etc… I ultimately defined my own path by making my own decisions. I don’t see how this stuff is that hard… I mean if we continue to treat people like shit in this world and to be grumpy mcgrumps all the time good things will stop happening good people will cease to be good, etc…There’s a whole host of things that can lead anyone to acts of violence. To say that any 1 party has any sort of bearing is to be a flat out lier.
If a parent isn’t paying attention as their 10 year old kid is playing a game going “Die die die die die die die die die die die fucker die die die.” then don’t act surprised if he kills someone when he’s freaking older. Parents shouldn’t be letting him play M for Mature FPS games with that sort of mindless vulgarity especially at that age. I’ve seen it before.
We want to blame everyone else in the world but ourselves… How about we just start to be personally responsible for once and say “Ya know what? The video game controller didn’t open up, have cables dig into my skin, override my neural sensors, and then send electric signals that forced me to do something. I did the act myself personally”
Is it really that difficult? I’m tired of people blaming everyone they can as long as they can shelter themselves from their own blame.
Haha. Yes! It’s all the governments fault!
Probably. Shady governments are everywhere..
I honestly have no thoughts. I so very much would like to comment, but I am dumbfounded. I will, however, say that I hope Renate and Rudi are funding their own research.
This is what happens when you have free speech in the US. People with a voice can say anything and lots of other people who don’t care to do the research themselves to find out if these two are who they say they are and if they rely did any in depth research instead of anecdotal evidence that they present in there results. So far the conclusions only have what a lawyer calls circumstantial not hard evidence. So those people that would convict some on hearsay (he said vs she said) evidence just jump on it so take it as it is.
Hate mongering against the US Military…
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I think MakaiOokami is the missing link.
hahahah this is such a joke
@ FiftyQuid
lmao!
dude this is complete crap. every paper i have written in college has had something to do with how bogus this is. it is more likely that violent people seek out violent video games than violent video games make people violent. this is total bullshit.
The Pentagon made me do it!
It is true that the Pentagon has funded some video games for training soldiers, but I would love to see their data that led them to this conclusion.
I heard once that the pentagon killed people, and then made a game about it. Then they sold it .
then they killed more people
That is Freakin proposterous yeah the origin of all the worlds violence is the Pentagon’s fault.
I’m a bloody American and I do not condone violence…….
I encourage it.
this article sounds like a bad joke to me.
Well it was the people’s fault to buy it.
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it actually comes from Previous aggressive or violent behavior, Genetic (family heredity) factors Use of drugs and/or alcohol , Combination of stressful family socioeconomic factors (poverty, severe deprivation, breakup, single parenting, unemployment, loss of support from extended family) and Brain damage from head injury.