Video Games Cannot Be Blamed For 'Corrupting' Children.

I will be playing the role of devil's advocate for this debate. Pro states in his debate that the corruption of youth is not at the fault of the video games or the industry that produces these games, but it is in fact at the fault of the parents of these children. Though this could pass as a legitimate argument Pro's reasoning are as one would say "broken"To directly quote Pro:"I was in a Game store last week, and saw children as young as 14 discussing what games to get. One of them bought Bioshock 2, another bought GTA Vice City, and the third bought Prototype 2, all with their parents permission. I own or have played all 3 of these games, and they are definitely not suitable for children of that age, hence the age rating."Pro later states:"games that are rated 18+ are all aimed at people in that age group. Anybody who is younger than that that is playing such games is only doing so because their parents, or their friends parents don't care about the age rating." (just a small nitpick but ESRB's mature rating is 17+ not 18+[1])Pro's argument is simply as goes "Because the parents allow their kids to play these 17+ games which according the the official ESRB website contains topics like "May contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content and/or strong language."[1] the parent are responsible for their children's corruption. Following this logic Pro has fully admitted that video games are responsible for the corruption of youth, yet he insists that its the parents fault for allowing their children to play these games. With or without parental consent, playing these games do in fact corrupt their kids. It is completely irresponsible to blame the parent in this situation, the games that contain this content in the first place is the source of corruption in youth.Now for my main argument/sIt has been proved in multiple studies that video games have influenced or directly caused violence in not even youths but people in general, I will be using recent studies from 2013, in which video games are shown as a link to increases of aggression[2] Brad Bushman, a professor at Ohio State University who specializes in communication and psychology directly states:"People who played a violent video game for three consecutive days showed increases in aggressive behavior and hostile expectations each day they played"The study was conducted by Bushman and fellow researchers form France and Germany, they gathered a group of 70 French students and told them they would be participating in a three-day study of the effects of brightness of video games on visual perception (although this was not the case)The students were randomly assigned to play a violent or non violent video game for 20 minutes for the three day period, afterwards they were put in multiple excersizes to test their level of agression. The results showed those who played the violent games expected the others around them to act agressive towards them and were shown to act agressive towards others according to Bushman.The study also showed those who played the non violent games showed no changes in their level of agression or hostile expectations, the study also showed that the those who played violent video games decrease pro-social behavior, such as helping or cooperating with others, and decrease feelings of empathy and compassion for others.It is quite obvious rather we like it or not that violent video games do have an effect on some, and can be a link to violence. I await Pro's arguments/Sources: [1] http://www.esrb.org... [2] http://seattletimes.com...;