[user104658]

Originally Posted by Christmas treeza

Thank you for you opinion, you have chosen to ignore the findings of the studies I posted then?

The finding of the study was that the more one plays video games, the less they are affected emotionally by that video game or other similar video games. That's it. That was the entire scope of the study. It says absolutely nothing about the effect of video games on real-life violence or empathy.

Why? Because no study has EVER shown a link between video games and increased real-life violence, or reduced real-life empathy. There have been HUNDREDS that have tried to show this link and yet, there are none that have ever demonstrated it and - in fact - several studies have "accidentally" shown links between video gaming and reduced real-life violence.

Do you think you are the first person who has assumed this link and wanted to prove it? People have been making this claim for years. It's not under-researched, the world is not lacking for people trying to prove this entirely baseless "games make people bad!" hypothesis, and yet no one has managed to drop that "bomb shell" study, because the facts and the statistical results just do not back up the prejudiced assumption.