Teaching Kids to Kill

Connections: A connection you can perceive from this text is a social connection. A social connection is made throughout the passage by containing the idea of kids adapting the idea to kill using video games. Video games are a great source of pass time and are mainly used by boys, so if a video game can portray killing, shooting, and targeting than a kid can easily learn from that idea. Video games such as Mordern Warfare or Call of Duty contain a horrific scene for children and by children playing these games it teaches them to kill.

Challenges: A challenge you can make from the text is that video games harm the mindsets of EVERY single kid. In theory a video game can also be the basis for a lot of teaching, if it is used in the right manor. Children should not even be allowed to play these  games but teenage boys who do play theses games like my brother for instance learn the difference from mass killings and having the will to kill and it just being a video game. These video games can be used to teach that killing people aimlessly is not a joke, and it creates serious damages.

Concepts: The text is portraying the idea of that video games harmfully effect kids. I do agree on this idea because it can harmfully effect any kid and push them into becoming something that they aren't; but not all kids. The article describes many statistics and realistic dates of kids who learned about the will to kill and acted upon that will. Another key detail would be how they train their army or soldiers and how devastating it must be to witness or even go through that human brutality.

Changes: The changes that are represented by this text are that globally people should start to recognize the types of effects violence causes; mainly too children. Media is a very strong outlet throughout the world and using that outlet to pass on acts of violence or aggression is unbelievably wrong because if a child cannot watch their favourite you-tuber playing a violence based video game without feeling the need to express violence towards someone in reality then something must be wrong and the world needs to begin to get their priorities straight.