And I've seen video games cause people to destroy their lives.
What else should we arbitrarily ban based on this criteria? It doesn't seem to hold up to much scrutiny.
What else should we arbitrarily ban based on this criteria? It doesn't seem to hold up to much scrutiny.
Sure video games can be unhealthy. Maybe I'm weird but I would much rather prefer my son plays video games 8 hours a day than watches adult content 8 hours a day. Let's stop pretending like they're comparable.
Isn't it the end result that matters? Presumably you'd like your son to become a functional adult. Neither of the scenarios you describe there sound like that to me (excepting perhaps "professional competitive gamer" but somehow I suspect most parents don't really approve of that outcome either).
It's no worse than reading a lot of books or watching a lot of TV shows, activities that are not disparaged as much.
That's the context of this entire discussion though, that these things are being banned…