I feel like the "video games don't promote violence" stance is pretty well-defended when I'm not sure if it necessarily should be

Part of that might be how proponents against the above stance seem to be understood as "if you consume this media, you will do violence"

I just think it's kind of silly to recognize that media of all kinds effects us in many different ways--Including making us feel a wide range of emotions, but instantly reject the idea that being tasked with consuming violence for hours doesn't impact how we view violence at all

thanks to Kerry for linking me this, this is a video that I agree with a lot and wanted to have here for other people to view too. It's about what I was talking about in this thread, but explained much better.