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...... Like many of the earliest video games, modern computer games feature themes of purposeful violence and even callous murder and assassination. However, instead of shooting two-dimensional birds out of the sky or submarines and ships from below, todays games depict extremely realistic video graphics combined with themes such as driving vehicles over human beings, blowing the heads of police officers in uniform, as well as every imaginable way of killing through explosions, beheadings, stabbing, and shooting
Anecdotal evidence began suggesting a connection between exposure to depictions of violence on television, computer, and especially violent video games and very serious real-life violent incidents. Numerous studies have been carried out to determine the degree to which exposing children to violent images contributes to measurable increase in violence and aggression in personal development. There is significant disagreement between some of those studies, with some suggesting specific correlation while others resulted in opposite conclusions. Some experts believe there is a direct causal relationship between violence in video games and violence among children. Others discount any connection and liken concerns about it to those of parents who worried about music and dancing in the 1950s......

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