Freitag, 3. April 2009

Playing ego-shooter games.

Lately it has been a very popular question: Should ego-shooter games be banned? Or is it okay that kids play these games?
In our time children don't have to deal with real war. But it´s human to be interested in it. Many people say that they don´t like wars but if you look, you´ll see that many films and games use war topics. More than a half, I would say. The most famous are ego-shooter games. Scientists say that these games perhaps teach kids to use force of arms. They explain that children learn to shoot at people they don´t like. And so this rampages at schools can happen. On the other side there are scientists who say that these games won't have any influence on young people. It´s only the person itself or his social environment who makes them so cruel.
Another problem is that little children under 18 years play these games and become scared of them. Nightmares and depressions are the consequences, but this problem is easy to solve. Children shouldn´t play these games.
I think the solution is very simple. Kids shouldn´t play ego-shooter games. Adults should have the ripenes so that they can think clear of these games and minimize the influence of these games to their kids. They must keep their children off these games until they are old enough to understand the problems wich come along with games like this.

Somehow the attraction of these games totally eludes me. Do you think these games are also fascinating only at a certain age? Should teenage boys be banned? Pretty good comment!

1 Kommentar:

Captain Cook hat gesagt…

Well done! I have a question though: a lot of stores sell age-restricted games to minors without checking their IDs. What could the society/ the parents do to deal with this problem?