Chapter Fifteen Violence Begets Violence

“Violence begets violence.”

—Exodus

“We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games. We are worried that theyare murdering their classmates because of video games.”

—Tom Bissell, Journalist and author of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

“Studies of children exposed to violence have shown that they can become: ‘immune’ or numb to the horror of violence, imitate the violence they see, and show more

aggressive behavior with greater exposure to violence.”

—American Academy of

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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