Video Games Are Causing Violence In Children

This debate will have 3 rounds 1. Representing a case that fully proves why or why not video games are creating violence 2. Attacks/Rebuttals 3. Why one side has clearly one the round and should be voted for. I will now affirm the Resolution: Video Games are Causing Violence "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll." Shigeru Miyamoto Contention 1: Parents are Disregarding the Game - Now, must of us grew up playing video games and wanted a game that had a lot of violence in them. And since we were not old enough to buy it, our favorite grandparents or parent(s) got the game for us. In this generation, it is without a doubt that video games are getting much more violent. However, the exposure of this violence has to do with parents, and how they decide to raise their kids. It is clearly put on the back of a violent video game "M" for mature rating: strong langue, intense violence, sexual themes, and drug abuse, etc. Therefor, if a child does cause harm, the parents are the ones to be to blame as they bought the game for their child and are responsible for the outcomes of what happens to their child. Don't blame games for violence in kids or young adults, blame the irresponsible parents for that act of violence. According to a KOTAKU article, 2/3 of parents don't even bother looking at the game's rating. And believed that the games' age rating even mattered when purchasing a game. As you can see, it should be ultimately the parents fault if their loving angel had did something bad. http://kotaku.com... Contention 2: Correlation Does Not Prove Causation - This is the most logical and most proven philosophy ever, and has yet to be refuted. This philosophy basically states that just because you have a bigger shoe size doesn't mean you are a better runner. Things like this are completely logical and don't prove anything special, such as I have a size 10, but my dad can run way better than me and has a size 9. When it comes to video games, violence cannot simply be directly related to playing too many violent video games. I myself play a lot of violent video games, assassins creed, black ops, GTA, and others yet feel no compulsion to go and shoot out a super market or stab random people on the street. If a child plays a lot of call of duty, it does not mean that he is going to try and kill someone at school. It just doesn't relate. Many people after the Sandy Hook Shooting blamed violent video games on the shooters behavior because he tended to play them a lot. However that just wasn't the case, he was mentally unstable in the first place. Therefor, if my opponent wants to address this issue, he/she must EXPLICITLY show how video games do in fact, create violence in children. http://www.princeton.edu... http://www.pbs.org... (When reading this article, please read the FULL and Complete thing) Contention 3: No sufficient Studies -This argument will embody the fact that, regardless of how many studies that show video games (especially violent ones) are causing violence, they are completely false as they lack the correct variables and correlation to even prove that there is a direct link. Again from the pbs.org link above, regardless of the famous Ohio State University study on violence in video games (130,000 people surveyed, the variables weren't controlled and the subject results were skewed) the study was a complete fallacy and failed to make a direct link to why video games are causing violence. Now, lets start off with the fact that we are not addressing "aggression" we are explicitly addressing violence and should be the base of all studies shown in this debate. Studies on video games causing violence follow the same path, AS CORRELATION DOES NOT PROVE OR IMPLY CAUSATION. I must affirm because of my three points.