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> The America diet This is super vague. > while I don't believe that video games are "rotting our brains", kids have become much more physically sedentary ove
by dagenix 7y ago
> The America diet
This is super vague.
> while I don't believe that video games are "rotting our brains", kids have become much more physically sedentary over the past 50 years with lots of measured negative consequences
But where is the evidence that video games are a decline in physical health? I could just as easily blame couch cushions that are too comfy. But that doesn't mean that we should make children sit on the floor.
> Smoking
This isn't a moral panic, at least not as it relates to any particular generation of children. Each generation has smoked less, not more.
- darkpuma 7y agoDo you earnestly expect anybody to believe that video games play no role in sedentary lifestyles?
- dagenix 7y agoDo you honestly expect me to believe your claim without any citations other than it sounds reasonable to you? There are millions of things that have changed in the last X years - just picking one of them you don't like and blaming it is lazy.
- robjan 7y agoI don't understand why you are taking this personally. It's pretty established that video games can be addictive and when someone is addicted to something they usually neglect other parts of their life. It's a big enough problem that the WHO have defined "Gaming disorder" in the ICD https://www.who.int/features/qa/gaming-disorder/en/ https://www.who.int/features/qa/gaming-disorder/en/
- solveit 7y agoSomething can be harmful at the extremes while being beneficial on average. Actually, almost everything we do falls into this category. I don't find it at all obvious that video games have been a net harm to humanity even if we restrict to physical health.
- claudiawerner 7y agoNobody is arguing that video games are a net harm to humanity, but I'm interested in knowing just what benefits you think video gaming confers versus things which haven't been identified as addictive, such as reading books. The fact is that we can't give video games a carte blanche simply because most people deal with them well. Alcohol is usually fine for most people, like video games it can confer benefits (e.g. social ones) but that doesn't mean alcoholism is a bogus thing to worry about.