Name: ビデオゲームの暴力にまつわる議論 (The Debate Behind Video Game Violence)
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Today, 65% of American adults and nearly all teenagers play video games.

They can, and do, show incredibly detailed violence.

And since their beginnings, video games have come with an implicit

assumption that they're probably doing something bad to us.

77% of parents believe media violence, including video games, is

contributing to America's culture of violence.

But what do we actually know about how violent games affect us?

Psychologists have been studying this for decades.

But right now, the research community includes a small but vocal

subsection convinced that the perceived scientific consensus linking

violent games to aggression is completely wrong.

Alongside moral panics and conflicting research, huge amounts of money

have been made selling video games, violent or otherwise.

In 1976, the industry was already making $25 billion annually.

Depending on what scientists find, there's a whole lot to be gained, or

lost. Brad Bushman and Christopher Ferguson are perhaps the best known

researchers representing each side of this dispute.

They are both psychologists who have spent years researching video games

and violence. They use similar methods and do similar experiments.

But they've wound up on either side of a line drawn clearly in the sand.

So why do these researchers disagree so strongly, and how did we get here?

So you can't look at at anybody without pointing your

In 1976, video game company Exidy released a game called Death Race.

To play it, you put your hands on an actual steering wheel.

You drive around a car and murder anything in your way.

You hear the screams of your victims and their gravestones litter the

screen. Soon after its release, there were calls to ban it.

There was outrage and many were worried about what it was doing to their

OK, so death race did come out in 1976, that's four years before Pac-Man.

Its graphics are primitive and barely recognizable, but the game resulted

in what was perhaps the first widespread panic about violence in video

games. And while that may seem laughable now, those concerns didn't go

anywhere. Do violent video games make for violent kids?

Officials say they are responding to complaints from parents that children

have skipped school or stolen money to play the games and made a nuisance

of themselves. Outrage exploded again in 1992 with the release of games

Parents are often the first to ask, could this, lead to this?

Mortal Kombat featured especially violent deaths and Night Trap showed

Cold blooded murder is making Mortal Kombat the most popular video game in

history. Kids relish their victory and their bloody choice .

Should they pull out their opponents heart or simply rip his head off just

to see a spinal cord dangle at a pool of blood?

There was no rating on this game at all when the game was introduced.

Small children bought this at Toys "R" Us and he knows that as well as I

do. In 1994, the Interactive Digital Software Association, now called the

Entertainment Software Association, founded the Entertainment Software

The ESRB introduced a rating system similar to the one that had been used

Last March, we promised you our industry would develop a rating system

that would put the controls back in the hands of consumers, and especially

parents. The system we present to you today redeems on that pledge.

While there are absolutely popular nonviolent games, undeniably violent

games like Call of Duty, Counter-Strike, PUBG and Fortnight continue to be

hugely successful. Epic Games alone, the publishers of Fortnight, made a

Huge games like Fortnight or Call of Duty or World of Warcraft are created

by organizational behemoths with massive budgets and scores of employees.

According to John Staats, the first level designer ever for World of

Warcraft, there's just too much at stake to be willingly creating

If you've worked in the gaming industry, you're also hyper aware of the

responsibility that you have because I mean, it's a class action lawsuit.

It's a big thing. Games are as hard, they're hard enough to make as it is.

You're talking hundred million dollar budgets.

So if there was really any danger, they're not dummies, they would

definitely be avoiding any potential damage.

You actually have to have the money guys who are actually really calling

the shots. And they're no dummies either.

I don't see any game companies really taking the time to think about it or

care about it unless it comes close to affecting their bottom lines.

But politicians, concerned parents and the media are thinking about it,

and that alone can have real-world consequences.

Walmart is announcing it is temporarily removing advertising displays for

violent video games following the recent mass shootings.

Recently, when President Trump implicated violent video games in mass

shootings, shares of major video game companies fell sharply.

We must stop the glorification of violence in our society.

This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now

commonplace. So the question is, are violent games actually doing

The internet is full of both people with a vested interest in violent

games and conflicting narratives about them.

There is zero connection between entertainment and behavior, and that's

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