Video Games increase child violence

We are talking about human kids, and not rats. You can't watch how a kid behaves, ask him if he plays violent games and come to the conclusion that games cause the aggressiveness. The proper studies, and you showed some, are done by using EEG, standing for Electroencephalogram. Electroencephalography (EEG) is the recording of electrical activity along the scalp. EEG measures voltage fluctuations resulting from ionic current flows within the neurons of the brain. This technique is used in cognitive science, cognitive psychology, and psychophysiological research. In simpler words, EEG tests show the activity of the brain. There are many studies that have been done, and i there are some above, and are easy to find too, that use EEG to see if kids that play violent video games have any negative effects. What EEG shows is more blood flow to certain parts of the brain. Scientists say there is no link, or the statistical evidence is insufficient. I would like you to tell me what you get from the following link:http://b-i.forbesimg.com... My opponents words: "People's thinking is like so: Oh, tests (I'm talking about EEG experiment method) shown that the kids that play video games (violent ones actually) have increased blood flow in the part of the brain associated with copycat activities, therefore they become more aggressive and prone to copy actions from a violent video game." is an invalid claim here as I am dealing with real experiments conducted by scientists. Scientists will tell you that there is no link between violence and playing video games. Humans work like this. From an early age almost every person understands at one point the difference between fiction and reality. Kids that play video games realize it is just fiction, and thus don't affect them in real life for the most part. If any kid gets aggressive through playing video games then you may want to get it checked out. I would like you to explain what you mean by violence. If you are the guys that think that school shootings are directly linked to kids' exposure to violent video games, i'm sorry, but this is 2013 and you should be informed better. Generally the whole video games cause violence thing is agenda driven. I won't say that playing video games that show violence will not change you at all, because it's all an experience. There are other more important and common things that connect to child violence, and often a kid will be living and growing under those circumstances, though media only refers to violent video games. Like peer pressure, poverty and the way kids grow up, and even more. Check it out before you bash video games: http://goodwin.drexel.edu... The graph that i showed you before (http://b-i.forbesimg.com...) is connected to the above argument. In america, crimes happen all the time, but countries like Germany, France and more have way more sells in video games, but still the crime level is pretty low. Can you tell why that happens? Kids growing up in poverty, under heavy stress and pressure by pears, schools and their own parents or even society, health problem, and the the how easy it is to find a gun in the US. i think that my opponents argument "All in all I don't feel con has really attempted to try and make a strong case for his stance at all. He has merely just tried to refute my sources, with absolutely no back up, references, cited sources etc." is not that true after all. My opponent said this: "A complete and unfair manipulation of my argument. My opponent then made another complete fallacy by claiming that people from his school who play video games turn out to be less aggressive than the ones that do not play video games." Saying that i misleaded his argument? Erm, do you even read the sources you post? They talk about video games causing all that stuff, including arguments with teachers. I think you are starting to realize the absurdity of your claims or you are just posting sources without reading them properly. My opponent has said multiple times that i haven't given him any sources, repeating the same argument over and over again. I think i can fix this really easily. Also, my opponent's sources have insufficient information, thus i don't accept them as evidence. Your second source of the irish times talks about researchers, and even a 12 year old can be a researcher, that say they have found a strong link between violence and video games, but they don't show the way the measured it. Probably the just polled some kids and made a conclusion. I will not accept this as valid proof. My opponent cleverly skipped my question: How do you know that kids that play violent kids weren't already a bit more violent than the rest of their peers, and so they were attracted to violent games. It's the same reason why boys are not attracted to girl's games, and so violent kids won't be attracted to games about sport or love stories. After some research, sources and media (based on a howstuffworks.com article) say that mister Dylan Klebold and mister Eric Harris that shot 20 people and killed 13 in a school shooting would play a lot of video games like Wolfenstein 3D and so and so forth. What the media is saying is that violent video games were the cause of their aggression. It's a rational statement, but quite wrong. These people did not see something on a video game, so they said they should try it out on Monday at school. These kids have been proven to be mentally unstable. If you are mentally unstable to that level, violent video games is just the drop that spilled the drink. (i hope i wrote this correctly). Let me give you a rational question. If you yourself, mister QandA, went on and played games like Call of Duty or GTA for a month, do you think you would be able to shoot a person with no second thoughts? Do you think that playing violent games would turn you into a mad on-frenzy serial killer? I don't think so. And if that was the case, thousands of school shootings will take place every week all around the world. And if we didn't stop violent video games, in a couple of years everyone would be walking on the streets with an AK-47 mowing down people. It's not gonna happen and you know it. Conclusions are drawn because of other causes of violence. Check out my link above that talks about the real main reasons kids become violent. What your studies won't show is if those kids didn't have any of those problems, and just played video games. If there is an official study, by an official scientist (and not researcher) that would make a study on kids that do not suffer from any of those problems and just played video games, and it would be proven that indeed violent video games cause aggression, i would step back and call it a victory for you. Until you find for me a proper science research, i won't accept it, as i know it's agenda driven and covered by tons of other reasons that increase child violence. Thank you for round 2.