If you were to take a look at the hastags, the post claims that it is satire. In more or less different words, taking a sarcastic stance to prove a point. This post is not trolling, it is mocking those who WANT such things as the original poster said due to the so-called fact that violent videogames implement violent tendencies within children (which has been disproved many times over by researchers and other posters within this thread). ....Am I the only one who noticed this? Haha

I know you're just trolling but what the hell, I'll bite. [b]Scientific research has shown a causal relationship between violent videogames and an increase in youth aggression?[/b] This is one of those theories that has been posited several times in research papers on “Media Effects” an area that has so far produced over 300 studies into the effects of media violence, the majority of which have been inconclusive. Several though claim that there is a direct link between violent video games and increased aggression amongst youths, but as Henry Jenkins (Director of Comparative studies at MIT) points out in his essay on the subject; “Many have been criticized on methodological grounds. In these studies, media images are removed from any narrative context. Subjects are asked to engage with content that they would not normally consume and may not understand.” Furthermore the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Vol 31(10), Oct, 2001 concluded that Playing a violent video game did not increase the aggressive moods of children. In fact compared to a paper and pencil games the opposite was true, violent video games actually increased the positive moods of children. Unfortunately this leaves us with quite a problem, as most research papers do not explain their methodology in anything like the detail that would be required for the reader to obtain an objective viewpoint, of all the studies published all that could be concluded was that they found a correlation (not a causal relationship) that simply shows that aggressive people tend to like aggressive entertainment and that feelings of isolation, anger and powerlessness often pre-exist a compulsion to enjoy violent media including but not limited to video games. To use a bad analogy, it's not owning a gun that makes you want to kill people, it's wanting to kill people that makes you want to own a gun. [b]Video games are responsible for an increase in youth crime?[/b] One for the Daily Mail readers and luckily one that is easy to debunk as nothing more than a myth. In America at least the rate of juvenile violent crime has fallen over time to a 30 year low, in England youth crime has been reported to have steadily increased over the past 15 years, however the CIVITAS factsheet on youth crime in England and Wales states: “Genuine concerns remain about trends in some categories of serious offending involving young people – notably an association between the use of weapons, gang membership and drug dealing in major cities. There is, however, no evidence of any increase overall in youth crime in the past ten years – or in the proportion of serious or frequent young offenders.” It’s worth noting that violent youth crime is responsible for a relatively small percentage of the crime statistics, first time offences are down 21% and the largest (in fact disproportionate) increase is in young female offenders. If you take a closer look at the available crime statistics 25% of boys and 40% of girls claim that they have experienced violence in the home. Of prisoners aged between 16 – 20 around 85% show signs of a personality disorder of those 10% show signs of psychotic illness. In 2007, there were over 1,000 self-harm incidents among children aged 15 and 17 within the custodial system. Boys in prison aged 15-17 are eighteen times more likely to kill themselves than in the community. Over the years with the increase in tabloid journalism, the demonisation of different subsets of youth culture has become prevalent in our society, this is not to say that there isn't a problem with juvenile crime, but there is an awful lot more that should be considered and examined before laying any portion of the blame at the door of video games. The largest causes of juvenile crime appear according to the majority of independent research to be caused by social and economic forces, to blame any form of entertainment for a perceived yet unsupported increase, does seem in this case to be nothing more than scaremongering. [b]Video games have a desensitising effect on the people that play them?[/b] Again this is as much down to flawed methodology in the research producing a flawed conclusion, media reformers have been campaigning for years that playing violent video games can cause a lack of empathy for real world victims, however as Jenkins states; “A child who responds to a video game the same way he or she responds to a real-world tragedy could be showing symptoms of being severely emotionally disturbed” As Eric Zimmerman (Game designer and play theorist) explains, play is distinctive from reality, he theorizes the principle of the ‘magic circle’ that children enter when at play, this allows the same action in the play world to hold a different meaning than that of the same action in the real world, as Jenkins points out “Media effects research, which often uses punching rubber dolls as a marker of real-world aggression, becomes problematic. The kid who is punching a toy designed for this purpose is still within the "magic circle" of play and understands their actions on those terms.” Which does little but prove that violent play of one kind does not lead to anything more than an increase in violent play of another kind, what it fails to show however is a causal link to anything within the real world. [b]Scientists are impartial and only point out conclusions based on the outcome of their research?[/b] Whilst I wouldn’t go as far as calling shenanigans on any particular paper I did find it interesting that (as is true in many areas of study) several primary researchers seem to be producing many of the studies suggesting a link between violent video games and aggression. Now as I have always understood it, the role of any scientist is to remain agnostic until such point that the research demonstrates an alternative to this viewpoint. However the frequency with which certain names appear on these papers suggest that there may be an argument that some researchers may be starting with a conclusion that they want to arrive at and then (subconsciously even) carrying out research to validate this conclusion. If you take a look at Anderson's paper 'An update on the effects of playing violent video games' 30th Oct. 2003 he points out that their has been considerable research into the effects and impact of exposure to media violence, he then references research that has been carried out on the subject by, Anderson and Bushman 2001, Bushman and Huesmann 2001, Huesmann and Miller 1994, Anderson and Huesmann 2003, Anderson and Bushman 2002a, Bushman and Anderson 2001 and Anderson and Bushman 2002b, out of the 23 papers used as research Anderson himself was responsible for 10 of them. In a science brief written by Anderson; Violent Video games: Myths, Facts and unanswered questions 2003, Anderson cites 10 different reference papers 8 of which were his own works. There is also an argument to be made that studies that show the positive effects of videogames are less likely to be published. Evidence for publication bias in video game violence effects literature: A meta-analytic review by Ferguson, Christopher J.; Aggression and Violent Behavior, Vol 12, 2007 concluded that there was a definite publication bias for experimental studies of aggressive behaviour and that studies demonstrating that video games cause violence are more likely to be published.

Damn bro I never seen such "Try Hard Trolling" are you bingeing?

I think if it detected them, it could overheat the console enough that it exploded, causing instant death so they are no longer a threat to the general public...

hasn't the whole violent video games argument thing been proven invalid due to the misconception of causation vs correlation?

I'm 14, I play violent shooters yet I'm a pretty nice person. I help others, ignore idiots, and much more intelligent then other kids yelling "IM GOING TO KILL U U KILLED ME OMFG" Maybe I'm older than what I'm told.

I am totally with you, Mister Longface. And reading the butthurt comments by kids in this thread (where they should not be allowed, as well) is proof that you are right. I would suggest a short Gandalf-video clip running automatically on detection of an underaged player: "You shall NOT pass..!" and - poof - the screen turns black.