8 Dumb Things Video Games Have Been Accused of Causing

From cancer to good old fashioned insanity.

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Books, comics, and television—billion dollar industries loved by all, but at one point in time were collectively vilified and feared by parents everywhere.

So it’s no wonder that the more recent addition to the entertainment industry, video games, face scrutiny every day for ostensibly dooming our children’s future and molding them into fat blobs with horrible hygiene. 

Video games are designed to take our money, destroy society, and train an entire country of gun toting psychopaths to go on senseless rampages.

These are just a few of the claims to “back up” those theories.

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Games cause rape.

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Games convince people to shoot everyone.

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Games are sex simulators.

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Games are like cocaine.

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Games give kids dementia.

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Games convince males to have sex without protection.

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Games make people antisocial.

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Games cause cancer.

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