Video Games do not Cause Violence

Since you had no arguments to rebuttal, I will not rebuttal in order to create a fair debate. This round will be separated into 3 main sections: Definitions Explantions Contentions Conclusion sources DefinitionsViolence: "Behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something" [1]Videogame: "A game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a monitor or other display." [2]Influence: "The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself"[3]Cause: "A person or thing that gives rise to an action, phenomenon, or condition" Explanations Because of the vagueness of this debate, we need to further understand how to distinguish "causing violence" from "influencing violence". This debate is if videogames cause violence, not if they influence violence. So influencing is when you have and effect on someone, whereas causing is when you give rise to an action. So let us give examples. If you were to influence, or convince someone to eat a strip of bacon, it would be influence. However if someone punches someone else because they were fighting for the strip of bacon, the bacon caused the punch. The reason I explainened this is because it will have a great effect on this debate, and both our further contentions.Contentions Everything can cause violence How video games cause violence Video games can be used to hurt people So I have 3 main contentions for this round, to save other contentions for the later rounds. To begin, I would like to explain how the debate topic is " Video Games do not Cause Violence". So if 1 person creates violence due to a video game, it still means that video games cause violence. Anyway, to get back to the point of this contention, everything can cause violence. A hand can cause violence, a book can cause violence, anything. Video games are not exceptions. Once I punched my cousin because I was mad at my video game. The video game was the cause of me punching my cousin, therefore the videogame caused violence. So videogames do cause violence. Now to get into further understanding, I will explain other ways on how video games cause violence. Well as we all know, humans learn the most when they are children. 32% of gamers are children, which is quite a large number. [5] Children learn alot from what is around them, and media is included in such. Anything they see can be the cause of their aggresion. So if they are in the perspective of some guy who kills thousands of people, they will be feeling the same way, and cause violence. These video games can be the cause of violence, so videogames cause violence, and also influence violence. Now for my last argument, let us imagine such a scenario. With 7 billion people on earth, with the number rising, the odd of such a scenario occuring is quite possible. [6] So basically, if let's say a person get's mad at someone for winning a video game, and starts being aggresive, they may want to hurt someone. So if someone was to pick up the video game, and slap it into someone's face, it would be violence. Violence caused by the videogame. So the videogames caused violence.Conclusion In conclusion, in some scenarios, videogames cause violence. So I pretty much already proved my point. Sources:1.http://www.oxforddictionaries.com...2.http://www.oxforddictionaries.com...3.http://www.oxforddictionaries.com...4.http://www.oxforddictionaries.com...5.http://www.theesa.com...6.http://www.worldometers.info...