Science disagrees on you with the harmless part. It is shown that violent video games desensitise people with regards to violence, just as violent movies do except there is a categorical difference interactiveness.
I don't like that fact either but to ignore facts because they don't mesh with my politics is bad.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29475379
(tl;dr: Germany censors harmless depictions of gory violence in video games.)