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Equivocating alcohol with video gaming is ridiculous. One is a toxic chemical that has physical, neurological effects on an individual and easily kills tens of thousands of people a year. The other is watching and interacting with pixels on a screen as you're doing at this very moment.

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The dose makes the poison.

Emphasizing the physical effects of alcohol, and reducing the mental effects of any human computer interaction to “watching and interacting with pixels on a screen” isn’t the right way to go about it.

There’s a difference between checking your feed and doom scrolling, there’s a difference between playing fortnite with friends, maybe even a little too late into the night, and compulsively grinding.

The dose makes the poison.

Indeed, the effects is not the right way to go about it. Perhaps looking at the health statistics (and car accident statistics due to alcohol) would be a better way to compare the severity of the two problems

Well, at this point we might as well blame social media feeds (which we can also call pixels on screens) for killing more people than drunk driving, at least in 2020 and 2021.

It's well known that gambling- and gaming addictions exist.

And more and more online games use psychological tactics to encourage spending.

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