Anti Game Violence Ad

This comes from a campaign to "educate" people about violence in video games (www.gameover.info). Their website seems to not exist any more, but I found these images on my search of propaganda images to review.

Here they use fear to persuade us that violence in games will inherently make our youth violent murderers. The images are rather graphic (more can be found at http://www.pictureorama.com/2008/09/cool-anti-game-violence-propaganda.html ) and seeing youth boys covered in blood or dressed in military gear is disturbing. In the one posted above, they tell us how shooter games create a brutal and manipulating virtual reality.

I am biased here, because I think people are using games as an escape goat. I do agree with the ad in that parents should be careful of what their kids play. But games are not the sole source of violence children receive. All of the media nowadays is filled with it! Placing the blame on one kind of entertainment (it is the newest form, so it is easy to blame it) seems stupid.

Is the ad effective? It definitely makes you think about it. Do we really want a 8 year old blowing up people in games? Will they turn into monsters because of this? It does make you think, although they leave out a lot of other facts on the topic of our youth being desensitized by violence.