Billy Hoyle

I know I'm pretty wet behind the ears around here, but I think everybody involved in this discussion can agree that a violent video game is not going to make a well-balanced, healthy, and mentally stable young person go out and committ a violent act upon another human being. It's my opinion that exposure to violent images could trigger a violent reaction in a person who has a predisposition for committing some type of violent act. Whether that's true or not, I can't say.

I believe the issue about parents being able to control what their children view is kind of a non-issue. Like Kong said, there are ways kids can get involved in things without having their parents know about it. The smarter the child is the more likely the child will be able to con his or her parents. A lot of kids with good parents do some pretty messed up things. Many factors play a part in those particular things, but bad parenting is not always one of them.

In reality, probably the worst thing a video game can do to a child is cause them to have a decreased amount of exercise and physical activity which could in turn lead to poor health in general. This, of course, probably does not happen to the majority of children who play video games, but I think it would be easier to find a correlation between those two things as compared to video games and violent behavior...anybody agree?