Group Reflection

I think the one thing our group can agree on video game violence is the fact that children cannot be exposed to violent scenery or obscene material so early in their lives. Parents being angry with the content in video games from the 1990's, 2000s, 2010's, and today is redundant becasue of the ratings on the covers that say who this games appeals to, children, 18+ teens, and adults. The simple actions of looking at the back of the cover should be easy. Parents need to supervise their children and what they watch, say, or play. Without supervising, it enables the children to play as many violent games as they please. Thus, their growth and development hurts them because of the effects from the violent and obscene material. Parents must check on what their kids are watching, or playing to make sure they can grow up to live healthy and active lives. We agree that parents need to be aware of the video game their child plays, and that children should not be exposed to violence early on in their lives. Children are growing, and anything like violence can be potentially bad for their mental health. One disagreement that we had as a group while working on this project was the belief that video games should be banned around the world.

After some careful group reflection, we all agreed that it is absolutely wrong for counties to outright ban video games. Countries such as China and Iran outright ban video games, and in our eyes, this is wrong. In the United States, we are fortunate to have many freedoms that other nations do not. We do not believe we should go down the road on debating whether or not certain video games should be banned. To us, that is not a conversation worth having. It would set a bad precedent for other forms of media to be banned. The United States should never be a place where it is considered a possibility where media is censored, and as for the people who say that violent media should be censored for the sake of children's exposure to things, than this is what our group would say. It is up to the parents of kids to monitor what kind of media their children are consuming. Wanting the government to step in and do that for you is not a good course of action. 

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