Everyday, young men across the world are spending hours killing, maiming, and engaging in all manner of violent anti-social behavior—virtually.
This vast digital blood orgy must have some kind of effect on society, right? There is data suggesting that it does, however it may not be the effect most would have expected. As it turns out, the steady parade of console-fitted gore-tainment may directly contribute to making society less violent.
Well, at least that's one theory.
There have been numerous studies attempting to find a link be question of whether violent games do, in fact, correlate with real-life aggression. And the findings have been annoyingly inconclusive. Indeed, the crime rate in the US has sharply decreased as video games have continually upped the viscera factor.
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