Because a flight simulator 'helps' train pilots that doesn't mean violent games train kids to be violent. For someone so content on thinking he's correct in his opinions you sure do show a lack of understanding fallacy.

Pushing the x button does not teach me how to change the clip of an assault rifle nor does pushing the triangle button make me less likely to care about taking another person's life in the real world.

Even children understand that they are communicating with algorithms and not hurting real people, a lesson you should learn yourself.

All these fancy associations have agenda and thus regardless of how respectful and knowledgeable they seem their point is moot. TESTS AND STAT BUILDING ARE PERFORMED WITH THE OUTCOME ALREADY DECIDED.

70% of violent criminals have tried coffee or still do coffee therefore coffee is a drug that creates violence in our beloved society and should be banned. You know how absurd that sounds to us coffee drinkers?...That's how gamers feel when they read things like that which you and these associations have stated.

I respect your views and your right to have them but it's that line of thought without any effort towards critical thinking that creates most social ills, not computer games.

This argument will carry on for eternity. It's no-one's fault it's just that people are not taught how to think, they are taught to react from a list of lineal 'logic' <--- Paradox magni =P

I guess we can ban games and watch youth crime decline into myth, after all this problem only appeared when games were created.

P.S I wonder why taking a kid hunting and letting him put a bullet through an animal's head isn't a murder sim?