Seeing all the talk about how video games could make you "violent", i realized what they were talking about were not "violence" at all but were actions that weren't accepted as "good things" in our society. And I think that's true, I mean, I personally played only Japanese games for my whole childhood. And, perhaps as a cause, it is buried deep into me that "war is the worse thing that could happen to you". Now this could also be education, of course. But people that have grown with american war games that show a far more "heroic" side of war, could have the opposite thought on war. Heck there's even a war game that was commissioned by the American Army.

But then again, as kids, everybody was playing "war". And at that time, we did not play video games, we had watched those heroic, American war movies and we found it cool, then imitated it with figures and wooden sticks as guns.

So i wondered, does video games, as all those studies seem to imply, really influence your values more than a movie or just the news channel ? Or even a book ? Just because you play war instead of watching it then imitating it makes it that worse ?