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Just like porn gives sexually frustrated people with a potential to rape someone a way to release tension without hurting anyone, video games can serve the same purpose with regards to people with a potential to kill someone. Let them kill virtual monsters in the latest Doom game (incredible game, by the way) and feel good about it.
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Funny story - these experiments have been and continue to be conducted! The findings are basically that violent video games, not videogames overall, do increase violent/antisocial behaviour. Here for example is a metaanalysis that states "The evidence strongly suggests that exposure to violent video games is a causal risk factor for increased aggressive behavior, aggressive cognition, and aggressive affect and for decreased empathy and prosocial behavior". I could probably pick out softer analyses, for instance this one calls the effect 'minimal' but even then concedes the effect does exist.
So in summary, yes, video games do cause violence but only a subset (violent videogames) and it's also worth bearing in mind that this isn't unique to videogames and the strength and nature of the effect isn't exactly pinned down yet with a huge amount of certainty.
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