Kids playing Gta

Thanks for responding, Cookie. I'll begin my rebuttal. "Gta can effect a childs future a LOT!" This has never been proven. There is no evidence for this claim, but as it is more a lead-in to your argument, I'll stop there and move on to your other claims. "I know kids in school that play GTA AND they are always getting in trouble fighting and may be expelled!" OK, this is probably true, but your logic is incorrect for a couple reasons here. 1) This is anecdotal evidence. There's no proof that this is really the case, and even if it is, this is only your experience; other people could have wildly different experiences. Just because you know a couple kids in your school that this happens with, it doesn't mean that every person who plays GTA gets in trouble for fighting and/or is expelled. 2a) Correlation does not imply causation. Let's say that this anecdotal evidence is true. Some kids in Con's school who play GTA are getting expelled or suspended. This must mean that GTA is causing them to be suspended, right? Wrong. There are a variety of other factors, almost too many to count, that could and do have an influence in these children's behavior. They could have abusive parents, or lack self-confidence and bully others to make up for it. This is most likely the case, as they probably play other video games that contain content just as graphic as GTA if not worse. GTA is not the only cause, even among video games. 2b) This also brings up another issue having to do with correlation not implying causation: whether or not violent video games lead to violent behaviors in the real world. There is absolutely no evidence to show that people shoot up schools or stab people or do a variety of other nefarious things because of violent video games. Sure, the vast majority of these people play violent video games, but there are far more people who play these games and don't do these kinds of things then there are that do. Also, all these people who do violent crimes all seem to bathe, brush their teeth, and drink water. Does this mean that bathing, brushing your teeth, and drinking water cause these violent crimes? Obviously not. So do violent video games influence bad behavior or violence? No. Nobody who has never thought about killing someone before picked up a copy of GTA V, popped it in, saw the graphic content, and thought, "Well, that seems like a good thing to do in real life." True, these games might give people ideas about how to kill people and might influence one or two crazy people to carry out their insane plans to harm others, but the vast, vast majority of the people who play GTA aren't insane and are not influenced in this way. Censoring something that has so much entertainment value for so many people just to prevent one or two insane people from engaging in violent acts is not the correct thing to do. These people will most likely just find some other catalyst for their violent feelings or get access to these games through a black market. By censoring the games, you'd only be hurting the people who you don't need or want to hurt. "It takes over their lives and can change their whole personality!" Again, the only evidence for this is anecdotal. There is no evidence nor any studies (to my knowledge at least) that point to this conclusion that playing Grand Theft Auto changes someone's entire life and personality for the worse. "Heres an example. Lets say there is a really nice boy called Thomas....He is never happy and can't get a single question right in school!" This example is pure hypothetical. I could say the exact opposite, like so: 'Let's say there is a really nice boy called George. George is 17 years old and he has lots of friends! George's parent's buy him GTA V for his birthday. George really likes this game, and remembers to play it responsibly by taking reasonable breaks! When his parents tell him to stop playing, George realizes that they are correct and that he has been playing for unreasonable amounts of time, so he plays outside! When his friends call for him he politely and respectfully returns their calls! George becomes a star athlete because he spends so much time outside. When he goes to school he is nice to his teachers and classmates works diligently! Eventually George becomes the most popular person in the school, is always happy, and gets perfect marks on all his exams!' It doesn't prove anything.