[narf poit chez BOOM]

Then you are not looking hard enough. It allows people to live out such actions in fantasy, mitigating some potential desire to go out and live them out in reality. EVERYONE without exception has many fantasies about doing illegal stuff (a lot of them might well happen in your subconscious, especially while asleep, but they are still there). Expressing them in a video game is preferable to expressing them in reality, eh?

having a bad temper, i know there's been times when going onto half-life and virtually blowing something to pieces has helped. at the same time, those times are few and far between. most of the time, what helps is calming myself. so, i can't see much good there, and, as is perhaps more correct, in most cases, for most people, most of the time, it's bad. children shouldn't play it, those with criminal tendency's and not enough self control shouldn't play it and i really don't see the point for the average person.