We can either destroy all the video games in the country, or we can watch our kids destroy their IQ's and that will be the beginning of the end of our country's future.
2007-01-29 06:14:54 · 5 answers · asked by Thomas P 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
It's amazing, the ignorance surrounding video games.
It's really all about how you use them. Please indulge in my example. I am an avid player of World of Warcraft and while this game DOES contain some mature themes, I have no problem showing it to the youngins because it gives me an opportunity to teach them something.
First, it allows me to show them the difference between fantasy and reality. Here is an entire world, a universe, created on a computer screen where thousands of people simultaneously interact in dozens of ways. Pure psychology. Nonetheless, I can explain that the World of Warcraft does not exist but is a form of entertainment for me and millions like me.
Second, I can use it as a teaching tool for the children. I am charged with a holy crusade to rid the fantasy world of the undead. I have to slay 10 undead warriors before they slay me. So I count, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10. Instant gratification! I have slain the required 10 warriors while teaching the youngster to count to ten. AND I've introduced the child to the age-old fantastic concept of the undead. A literary experience for the ages included in the writings of Bram Stoker, Anne Rice, Laurell K Hamilton and countless others!
It's up to the parents, the guardians, the learned grown-ups of the world to use EVERY tool they have as a learning device.
Video games are here to stay. It's all in what you do with them.
2007-01-29 06:27:47 · answer #1 · answered by Chyvalri 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The connections here are implied, and not necessarily true for all kids. First, not every kids plays video games. Second, there does not seem to be any proof that playing video games necessarily destroys your IQ. Finally, even if this were all true to some extent, there is nothing to prove that this would cause the ruin of the country.
2007-01-29 14:36:22 · answer #2 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I know its a stupid statement by a politician designed for its perceived impact value it is dumb all the way around the dial. The politicians dont seem to want to complain when the armed forces use video game type simulations to be sure our fighting men and women are ready to take expensive equipment on the battlefield or into the air though. The fact is until we as a society send the clear message to these fools in Washington on both sides of the aisle that they need to be more concerned with our security and our borders than with what we choose to do in our own living rooms they will continue to waste our time and money with ridiculous legislation and infighting that serves no purpose other than to get them reelected and raise our taxes. Enough is enough.
2007-01-29 14:30:22 · answer #3 · answered by crawler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats funny sounds like its from a crazy/unreliable source. I'd rather have a kid that plays video games than one that does drugs.
2007-01-29 14:24:05 · answer #4 · answered by KT! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why are you obsessed with fallacies? The Fruedian explanation would be that you are actually obsessed with phallicies and are therefore homosexual.
2007-01-29 14:23:33 · answer #5 · answered by Am I. Incognito 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋