Jack Jones's Nonintrusive Argument

Thus, Jones developed a nonintrusive argument which portrayed his opinion on the idea clearly making a strong case for violent media. He beautifully used illustrations from his own life and the lives of people he knew as a way to show how violent media has helped him in life. Also, his use of facts which arguably weakened his argument because the only facts he provided were from his own life stories; however, Emmons stated, “A 2004 study in the Journal of Adolescence showed that video games, because of their physical activity and be-the-character interactivity, desensitized kids to violence even more than TV. However, other studies have failed to show a link between violent video game exposure and aggression” (Par 14), so really most of the