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I know criticism is rarely nuanced online, and it can unhelpfully trigger people's fight response. So I hope this doesn't come across as vicious, but: > people
by sago 8y ago
I know criticism is rarely nuanced online, and it can unhelpfully trigger people's fight response. So I hope this doesn't come across as vicious, but:
> people do get disable kids all the time
struck me (a profoundly disabled person) as very dehumanizing.
I regularly trade quality for quantity of life. Socialising in ways that allow ways of relating I otherwise cannot access is not 'alternative medicine', it is living.
I respectfully suggest a bit more humility. Listen to disabled gamers before you firm up your opinion.
- stan_rogers 8y agoWhen the point being discussed is parental strategies and choices, referring to the parent rather than the child isn't dehumanizing.
- thanatropism 8y agoBut as you see from responses and down votes even raising questions is frowned upon now. (Racists and other bad-faith actors may have ruined the "can't even raise the question" routine. It's unfortunate -- we're quickly losing the ability to think critically; and you know what the great men have said about the unexamined life.)
- dizzi90 8y agoThere is lots of room for cognitive dissonance here. The article hardly claims that gaming is a universally GoodThing(tm). Rather that it isn't universally a bad one. In my reading, nuance seems to be the very point.