I'm 15 and my parents are still very strongly against me playing games with any appreciable amount of violence or mature content. Most of the games I play on Steam aren't really that violent at all (I play games like Unturned, Portal and Don't Starve which only really have cartoon violence that's not that excessive at all) but once recently when I was trying to play Team Fortress 2 (hardly one of the most violent games out there) my parents wouldn't let me play it because it was "violent".
I don't think they think games will make me violent but I would be unsurprised if they believed the studies trying to relate games to aggression.
They said that it would "affect my character development" which probably means something along the lines of inadvertently placing violent thoughts into my mind.
They also think it's "unhealthy" to play any games with violence.
Games that are rated 18+ (in the UK - basically the same as M17+) are played by lots of people far younger than 18 and it's not as though I am 7 so I don't need to be "protected".
How do I convince my parents that mature games are fine and won't have any negative effect on me?
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