InDormal Fiction (InFormal Diction)

For my blog, I will discuss the nature of video gaming on society.

Video gaming has had a wide sweeping effect over the world, particularly on my generation. Many people I know enjoy video games and play them very often. I would like to now unravel the myths and speculations that, "Mature" rated video games have a negative effect on youth and teens. Mature rated video games are not evil and will not corrupt the mentally stable.
             For one, I want to state that I think only the mentally able should play these types of games. Most teens around my age are able to handle these, so I will be talking about this age group and these types of children. The reason why I think that mature games are okay to play is because they are a good venting technique. We can let out our frustration with just going through a level, and maybe beating a few people up in the process. I mean some of it can be rather violent, but if you are able to watch an, "R" rated movie, is it not respectable to ask that video games be the same situation? Sometimes I feel as though the rating company takes teens for granted. No mentally stable teenager is going to get a gun and go on a murderous rampage just because he played a violent video game. If it does happen, I believe that the parent is guilty of that, but that's another tale for another time. I just mean that a parent should know if their child is not capable of the capacity that is mature video games. Feeling this way, I would like to further explain my idea of venting through video games.
               We, as a population, were built off of violence. Could we have really survived if the cavemen had not made weapons and hunted? No. So why is it so wrong to tap into that primeval  instinct once in a little while, in a completely non harmful and non violent way? I honestly do not see why. It's in our history to be violent, and while I may not agree that it's right to be violent all the time, I think that some times we, as human beings, feel angry and frustrated and have a need to be violent. So, we should settle it in a non violent way, and I think to deny teens of that is completely wrong and will probably just end up not even working in the favor that people going against mature games for teens are reaching for. Don't deny us the right to be ourselves, as humans.