Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting
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Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting::Video game addiction. Sigh. Big sigh, even. Like, the biggest of sighs. We've talked about claims that video game addiction is a documentable affliction in the past, as well as the pushback that claim has received from addiction experts, who have pointed out that much of this is being done to allow doctors to get…
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It's like when parents go after the drug dealers than blame their own kid for doing drugs.
It's also like when you ignore that video game makers research and develop how to make their game as addictive as possible and ignore an entire thread talking about it. Oh wait...
Because it's never the responsibility of the user.
Uh... it's pretty generally accepted that selling drugs to kids is bad. It's also illegal. Do you agree that it should be illegal? And if so, doesn't comparing the two support the idea that the games should be regulated?