I got this from EdTechLife, but here is the direct link.
To me, it seems that the kids feel that they are desensitized to the events in the game and that in some manner they are immune to it’s influence. Granted, it’s difficult to see what the impact might be, but to my mind, the level of desensitization in society in large part will only increase with this sort of game available to kids. Because just as we’ve seen what has happened as people of my generation have started making movies and ads that are far more explicit for lack of a better term than in years past. This and other effects of the slow “adultification” of childhood are slowly starting to be seen elsewhere as well.
I may be a bit naive, but I think we should try to protect some elements of an innocent and obviously naive childhood in order to foster kindness in society. I’ve seen in my own experience that some of the people in my extended family have raised their children in this manner and they have a world view that can see lines of good and bad very easily and not always inline with their parents and I’ve seen kids that have grown up saturated with violence that are not likely to ever really know about where lines are.
Granted this is a broad brush.
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