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You can’t call negative things gaming. You can gamify anything, but if it’s negative you can’t call it gaming. Gaming is always good and never causes any problems. Plenty of research shows that gaming is good. Please stop villainizing gaming. Gaming is good. If it’s negative, just call it what it is. Gambling, addiction, radicalization, etc all are just that. They have nothing to do with gaming. Gaming is good. Media has no affect on people.

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> You can’t call negative things gaming.

Tell that to the government of Canada.

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-197.ht...

Words can have different meanings in different contexts.

> You can gamify anything

Actually gamifying is as predatory as gambling so what's your point again?

Don’t call it gaming. Gaming is good and has nothing to do with gambling. What is your point?

Ok look. If you put poison in food, it ceases to be food. It’s just poison at that point. Calling it food or even poisoned food is only an attempt to besmirch the good name of food. Food is always good for you. Any food that’s not good for you by definition isn’t food and no one can mistake it for food and any attempt at calling it food is just dishonest. Even having a discussion about food safety is nothing but a slippery slope to ban food they don’t like. Food is good.

You are about five hundred years late to this argument.

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