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I wrote an academic essay on the subject of video game violence, and its effect on young children for University.

I came to the conclusion, that generally speaking, the evil or violent behaviour that could lead to pre-meditated murder already lies in the persons psyche. Nurture can play a role, but mostly its nature that causes it.

Scientific studies have shown that many mass murderers have had similar brain cat scan results, which in some cases was down to their genes, and other times was even due to brain damage caused by knocks to the head which could have happened when they were very young.

Theres also been lots of tests where random people were shown neutral images and had their brain activity, pulse rates and other things measured whilst viewing them. Then they would show violent images and take note of the changes. They would then often do the same test on people that played violent video-games more than any other genre (and also people that liked violent/horror films) and saw that their response to the violent images were less significant to the random subjects, showing dissensitisation.

Anything can cause dissensitisation though, we see violence every day in films and games, but more importantly on the news and in real life, so to blame violent movies or games for people murdering others is quite stupid, but to blame the parents can also be as equally wrong.

Generally speaking in my opinion, and from investigations, it seems to be nature rather than nurture/real life experiences, hobbies and interests that creates psychopathic killers.