[DMEC] Essay Quotes: Games and Violence
While there were only 14 winning essays, the majority of the over 130 essays offered some insight into and perspective on the role of digital media amongst today's teens. The following is a collection of some of the best quotes around the topic of Games and Violence.
Matt M., Louisville, Kentucky:
Arnold Schwarzenegger recently passed a law in California stating that violent games are not allowed to be sold to children under the age of 17. This law is coming from a guy who has portrayed one of the most deadly characters in the movie The Terminator. Obviously the “Govenator” didn’t know that there is a rating system which says in bold letters, MATURE (for 17+). …People today, like the Govenator, can’t see the violence in the real world, because they are caught up in the violence brought up in a virtual universe. I’m sure that there are plenty of crimes being committed besides a 10-year old playing Grand Theft Auto.
Kayla W., Athens, Georgia:
All in all, in my opinion, video games do cause violence in kids who play them. …this is just like smoke. cigarettes and getting lung cancer. Not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer and not everyone who plays violent video games becomes a violent person.
Brittney S., Fort Valley, Georgia:
Blaming violent media for all violence is definitely not my intentions… [But] when teenagers openly admit that their violent act was a result of scenes they picked up from a video game, it’s time to address the situation. A line has to be drawn.
Stuart D., Tocharaeh Wake, Teen Second Life:
Violent games do not make a person violent, The person makes him/herself violent by the people they interact with.
