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Originally Posted by August
Quite a few people in this forum have dismissed the whole idea that video gaming could have a negative mental effect.
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I do not dismiss it. I just do not put too much trust in political or other administrative instances to assess when something has become addictive and when it still is not an addiction. In Germany, once or twice per year somebnody steps forward s and says video games kill the souls of out children. And then they com e up with stereotypes and examples that ride 15 years behind the actual time - and wonder why they are not being taken serious.
Its too often a clueless gang of pseudo-experts wanting to establish the standards by which to judge these things.
At the same time, the anti-social consequences of excessive use of Facebook and Twitter and what it means if the avertgae Joe, so they say, looks 150 times per day at his smartphone and does so almost by reflex, is being ignored.
There are dangers, no doubt. I only have doubts that it is the right people wanting to go after them.