Jonie Lauria: It's bad if it's taking over your life. If you have a life outside of video games and you play, not so bad. But if you're telling people off when they interrupt your playing or if someone asks you, wat do you do? oh i play video games. Then its bad.I think it's also bad, when kids have a sick day just to play world of warcraft.Excuse me! But I wasn't attacking one in particular. I could say it about every MMORPG or single play roleplaying game.The reason I said that is because its true. I love how you only picked up on the World of Warcraft problem. Clearly you have an account. Wanker...Show more
Norine Lomonte: I like how Chewy used his answer as a personal attack on one video game in particular.Video games, video game design, video game marketing...none of these are the issue. If kids are playing video games 'too much', its the parents' fault for letting them. If an adult is playing games 'too much' its their life, stop involving yourself in it. It i! s NOT the job of the public NOR the government to regulate our day-to-day activities. The government may intervene when a law is broken, but thats as far as that goes. This huge debacle within the last decade as to whether 'video games are bad' or not is laughable. So I pose this question in response to yours:Who has less of a 'life'? The individual playing world of warcraft for 8-10 hours a day and enjoying himself, or the person spending a few hours a week or more TALKING about the guy who plays world of warcraft?But to be more to-the-point on the way you've worded your question in particular- 'Are the violence in video games that supposedly corrupts our youth to blame or is it bad parenting?'You wouldn't blame drugs for corrupting youth, you'd blame the parents for allowing the drug use. You wouldn't blame alcohol for corrupting youth, you'd blame the parents for allowing the alcohol use. So why blame video games and NOT the parents? I usually try to refrain from compari! ng video games to drugs and alcohol, but lately it seems socie! ty is placing gaming at the same level as these 2 *PROVEN HARMFUL* and *ILLEGAL TO MINORS* activities. Its an unfair bias, because video games have NOT been proven harmful, and addiction to video games is not even a REAL addiction even after careful observation and study by qualified professionals. Video games are also legal for sale and use.As far as I'm concerned, the people that blame ANYTHING but the parents for any percieved or actual problem in today's youth... those people are only hurting the future of children everywhere, and giving parents a scapegoat to evade their parental responsibility....Show more
Horace Escue: its like everything else in life you need 2 things, moderation and perspective. things in moderation are fine, too much of anyitng is bad, example if all you ate was carrots and nothing else you would have a lot of health problems, and perspective comes from detachment and being able to see things for what they are, before video games there was ! movies, and tv before that there were books, and other stories, and back in the day the Romans would feed people to lions, yet they are the father of American ideals. when you play a violent game or watch a violent movie or read a horror story, there are people who realize it is entertainment and those who dont, like when the war of the worlds was read over the radio and people thought martians were attacking and ran out of there houses with shotguns looking for the invasion.there are billions of people who see violent acts of fiction all the time and never act upon them, the cases of people acting as such are rare and are show by the media to sensationalize.ask yourself, before video games when people were being murdered and mutilated in the Colosseum for entertainment was that more acceptable than watching fake reproductions....Show more
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