Violent video games should be banned among high school and college students.

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Violent Video Games Should Be Banned Among High School and College Students.
Given the current technological advancements, there are plenty of fun activities that children can participate in. Among them is the playing of video games. Such video games come in different versions, and some of them tend to be violent. The violent games are the most loved by most high school and college boys since they are a leisure activity. The developers of such games have no control over the impact that they bring to the players. Therefore, the playing of violent video games should be banned since they encourage bullying, theft, and hinder sound decision making.
College and high school students are still learning how to control their emotions, and therefore, violent video games can encourage them to bully others. The frequent playing of such games might result in a student believing that they have the power to treat other students in a violent manner. The violence in the games takes away the emotion of sympathy from an individual, thus resulting in them expressing violent behavior. Bullying comes along with different types. The kind of bullying resulting from the playing of violent video games is where a student forces another to perform a particular task. It is through such video games that a student might end up feeling more superior than the rest of the students. As a result, such students tend to believe that they deserve to be respected and served as a master (Li, Qingyi, and Tyrone 305). Such bullying is mostly evident in high schools since the students rarely know how to control their emotions. They are in the teenage stage, which requires an individual to have a lot of patients before they can learn how to control their emotions. In addition, high school and college students tend to have more respect for the students who belong to the popular group. Such students believe that any other person who does not belong to their class ought to obey their orders. Therefore, this results in cases of bullying. It is through the playing of video games that the winners turn out to belong to a particular class in their school environment. The losers of such games end up being the victims of bullying since they have to obey the orders of the winners. Hence, to avoid such kind of bullying, it is best to ban violent video games among high school and college students.
As well, the violent games ought to be banned because they encourage theft among students through betting on the players. It is clear that violent video games are not only played for fun, but students also make money from them through betting. Such betting can be addictive, especially in the case where a student wins consecutive games. As a result, the student ends up doing anything possible to get the money for betting. Among the ways through which they can get such money is by stealing. The students will not only steal from their parents but also from their fellow students. It is the responsibility of every learning institution to nurture students into observing the societal norms. Stealing is ...