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Young People Who Play Video Games Have Higher Moral Reasoning Skills (inews.co.uk)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Young people who play video games, including violent titles, display more developed moral reasoning skills than their non-gaming peers, a study has found. Researchers from Bournemouth University asked 166 adolescents aged between 11 and 18-years old about their video game habits and questions designed to measure their moral development -- the thought process behind determining what is right or wrong. The children and teenagers who said they played more video games from a wide variety of genres had increased moral reasoning scores, including titles containing violent content. Violent games were found to have a positive relationship with moral reasoning while mature content was more likely to produce a negative one, the report published in published in journal Frontiers in Psychology found.

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  1. Finish them off? by sycodon · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just ran this guy down in my 1969 Mustang. Should I steal his stuff and finish him off, or give him a Med Pack and send him on his way.

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    1. Re:Finish them off? by lgw · · Score: 4, Funny

      The boys in blue are a giant heavily armed gang and you generally don't want them gunning for you.

      Nah, you just drive through a car wash and it's fine.

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