Name: ビデオゲームを暴力のせいにするのは間違っている理由｜NYTオピニオン (Why Blaming Video Games for Violence is Wrong | NYT Opinion)
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Invading your living rooms, storming your phones, even

“These video games  dehumanize individuals.”

when American politicians shared thoughts, prayers

“This was a maybe a video game to this evil demon.

Even the president urged us to stop the glorification

“the gruesome and grisly video games that

Let’s debunk this whole “video games causes violence”

I’ve been reporting on video games for eight years.

I’ve been a lifelong video game player.

I have amassed nearly two million subscribers

The violent ones, the shooter ones more specifically.

I know I’m just one gamer, but I’m not a threat to society

and neither are the millions of other people

Let’s take a look at the world of evidence.

American video game sales per person are on similar levels

to countries like South Korea, Japan, or Germany.

But our rate of violent gun deaths is 10 to 100 times

Even within America, there is zero empirical evidence

that video games are linked to mass shootings.

Decades of research from the American Psychological

Association have shown there’s no link between playing

Now, it’s true that some research shows a relationship

but aggression is also linked to lots of things, including

Now, maybe you’re thinking, what about Columbine.

Didn’t the two shooters in that also play

movies, they read books and digest the news, real or fake.

As one A.P.A. expert put it, “The data on bananas causing suicide

issued a statement discouraging politicians

and journalists from trying to connect video games

and shootings precisely because they feared

the rhetoric would distract us from addressing issues

that we know contribute to real-world violence.

So why, against the objections of science and ethics,

do politicians still insist on deflecting our attention?

censorship of movies because they could “cause evil.”

Film didn’t become a form of protected speech

just when politicians turned their energies

comic books. Now fast-forward to the paranoias

Solutions are hard and we like simple answers

And it doesn’t take much to get disgruntled parents

and Fortnite addiction to believe that video games are evil.

The fact that politicians are so removed from video game culture

is another reason we should ignore their deflections.

“Shut your pie hole.” And just like books,

video games are actually an art form protected

The Supreme Court made that clear in 2011

when Justice Scalia reminded us that violence is not

It’s as old as the plots of Cinderella and Snow White.

Gamers don’t really have an issue deciphering

But politicians seem to have lost themselves

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