Stop Blaming Video Games
Not a day goes by that I don’t read about some parent group or religious congregation talking smack about video games and their negative results on society. Honestly I’m just tired of it.
I remember back in the day when rap groups were being attacked for their violent & explicit lyrics. Well now the focus is and has been video games for over 20 years now. Don’t get me wrong, society may still blame rap music, TV shows, movies for all the things that go wrong in the world, but video games has been bumped right up into that field of “menace to society”.
Here is the bottom line, if a person cannot tell the difference between a video game, movie or TV and reality, then they have an issue. And one that needs to be addressed immediately. Regardless of what this very person might watch or play, they will never comprehend the difference between fiction and fact, reality and fantasy. That is the sad truth.
We need to start looking at the other factors that play a huge part in what a person becomes. Mainly family and how a person is raised. I know for a fact that my children (when they are old enough) will be allowed to play video games because I am raising them to be good individuals who make a difference in society and not menacing, violent people.
Parents, churches, all of the people that point blame at video games,need to face up to the fact of their involvement in the problem. Stop pointing the finger at something that is an easy scapegoat and take responsibility for your own actions.
We can also blame those poor mostly insane individuals that see certain things taking place in games or movies and think it’s ok to do it for real, but again where is the family helping this kid to discern between reality and fantasy? How did he/she get to be this way?
It’s time to for our entire society to take responsibility for what goes on around them. We are the only people who can make a difference. No video game or movie is ever going to fix that or create problems for us. We do it. Society does it. So let society step in and fix it.
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