Re:No evidence to support link between violent video games a...
by arca_vorago on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:53PM
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As a combat vet I would even go the opposite direction, having a cathartic release in virtual form can often lower desire for violence levels. Sometimes I just need to launch chivalry and chop some heads off ya know what I mean?
Games like insurgency and arma actually really helped me with my now under control PTSD, my theory is that I was doing CBT immersion therapy on myself.
"I would question whether anyone that conflates the two has ever had to inflict injury on another human."
Indeed. If you don't mind me asking, what martial art(s) do you train in?
Re:No evidence to support link between violent video games a...
by zrb05292 on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @03:38AM
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You are probably aware but in case not I’ve read in the past where researchers used special video games as a therapy for PTSD. Something about how the brain isn’t able to tell the difference between real danger and virtual danger so it’s a sort of safe immersive therapy (I’m explaining very poorly). http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cyber.2011.0003
Convincing the average human to do violence to another takes a _lot_ of effort. Real violence is nothing like games, and has a viscerality that games cannot prepare one for. I would question whether anyone that conflates the two has ever had to inflict injury on another human.
If games made people violent, the military would send people copies of GTA V. Yes, the American army have their own game, but that's a recruitment tool and not a violence-desensitiser.