Violent Video Games in the Twenty-First Century The Truth...

â€Å"Public policy is being fashioned on an anvil of fear† (Kim 65). Fear is a form of societal control when harnessed for such a purpose; when abused, it sets moral (as well as immoral) panic to the public mass. When fear is harnessed for good intentions, as in religion, the fear of God and Hell promotes moral behavior. However, in the case of the Columbine Massacre, fear was spread like wildfire across the nation, catapulting it into the panic that would come to point fingers at any half-truth. The nation would come to see a cause for teen violence where there was none. Fear, in this case, would result in one of the many half-truths that are still heavily debated to this day. Although this half-truth regards video games resulting in teenage†¦show more content†¦When the assumptions mentioned afore are questioned, the facts start to present themselves. Although children and teenagers spend a vast majority of their time each week playing video games, these games help them in unique ways, especially in the area of optical care. Professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester, Daphne Bavelier has proved through an intensive study that action (typically associated with violence) video game players improve their ability to perceive fine differences in contrast by fifty-eight percent (Sherwood). Bavelier sights options that would usually be required for such a change, like eye surgery – â€Å"somehow changing the optics of the eyes† (Sherwood). In the seven hours and five minutes children and adolescents spend every week (Report Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8-to 18-Year-Olds) playing violent video games, on average, is actually the opportunity they need to achieve spectacular eyesight. 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