Games Could be Hazardous to Your Health

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When i play for example war games online like Fear Combat and others i feel exhausted physical and phycological mostly about two hours of continuosly playing because i already vent all my energy and feelings against a virtual oponent and i dont want to shoot anyone more, so at the end these games just calm down people with stress and boredom (i dont want to kill anyone i just like to shoot and be in a simulated war situation, im not crazy to take it to real life situations) but for people that are sick this maybe a way to vent their insane feelings against others...what do you think?
These games are making people to calm down and not the oposite.

 

[blackbeastofaaaaagh]

That reminds me of an idea that Stanley Kubrick stole from me while we were wasted on the front yard smoking weed and discussing stuff.

Gaming could make you crazy and dangerous if someone kept injected you nausea medication, kept your eyelids open with hooks while someone kept your eyes moist with drops and you were forced to watch games that showed wholesome family friendly fun. The aversion therapy aught to make a person a killer of all that is good in this world.

 

[gm0n3y]

And I'm guessing that somehow nude statues with milk coming out of their breasts and giant ceramic dildos fit into this.

 

[HaraDragon]

After reading some of the commentary throughout the posts, it seems to me as if the government is slowing moving towards a facist state, in the guise of a gov't just wanting what's best "for the children." The US is starting to set up the same sort of hotlines that have been in place in Europe, for a while now. You think your parents are abusing you because they won't let you do whatever you want, when you want, give us a call. Your neighbors believe in approriate discipline for their children that you disagree with, give us a call. You think your neighbor is a terrorist or un-American, give us a call.

Seriously, it's starting to get out of hand. The government is defining what is or is not good parenting. It would seem to me that parents know what is best for their children, because each child is different. Perhaps religious or social values differ from area to area. Instead of encouraging community and "good family values" they are encouraging people to rat each other out at the drop of a hat. I don't like how my neighbor, Jimmy, cuts his bushes. I'll turn him in as a terrorist, anonymously; that will show him!

There have been many places where this was encouraged, the Soviet Union, Italy/Germany/Japan (pre and post WWII), Venezuela, and a miriad of other locations. It starts small and snowballs. I personally think the US is heading down the very path. I think it's all about control... it really is.

I understand that there are exceptions... sometimes your parent really is abusing you. Your neighbor might actually be making dirty bombs on Sunday (everyone has a hobby). If there ARE bad things happening, make them known. Trust parents to be good parents by allowing them the freedom to do act appropriately when it comes to their children. If they turn out to be really bad parents, then act on it.

I'm reminded of another argument that some make quite frequently. "Guns should not be allowed in homes that have children." A kid could shoot themselves, true. However, I grew up in a home with several handguns, rifles, shotguns, etc. I NEVER once thought about pointing a gun at someone, or playing around with it. I was taught that a gun was a dangerous item. Whenever I wanted to hold one, all I had to do was ask my father; he would show me how to clear it AND make sure it was cleared before I could handle it.

By pretending something doesn't exist, whether it be guns, violence, sex, etc... we do not prepare our children to deal with it. We leave them blind to the concept so that when they are faced with it, the outcome, as it is in many situations, is catastrophic.

That's another 10 cents worth.

 

[azxcvbnm321]

You got it Trinix, if governments help the weak and punish the strong, then why wouldn't the strong just become weak so they could be taken care of? Why bother to work hard and make more money if it's all taken away and given to people who can't or won't work hard? That's why there can never be communism in the real world, we all would just stop working and demand others to provide for us. Of course, SOMEONE has to keep on working to provide, and eventually the system collapses due to massive poverty and starvation. Or else the government has to intervene and force people to work at gunpoint. Yet because we're all going to make the same regardless, we'll just go through the motions of working and not try at all. Again, massive poverty is the result.

This experiment has been tried again and again, even on small scales such as communes that try to be self-sufficient. The same thing happens in each, some people start working less hard. The people who do work hard get angry and they stop working hard too. In the end, the commune has to break up or else people will starve, there just isn't enough to go around because everyone drops to the lowest level of the laziest person.

Now if you reward people for their work, then the lazy person becomes "poorer" than the hard worker. But he's actually better off because he gets to live in a society where hard workers and smart workers do the best they can, he'll be given some small services and get to use the public lands and services that get built up by the harder workers. That's why the poor in America are considered UPPER MIDDLE CLASS by purchasing power compared to the entire world population according to the UN. So our poor in the US are actually rich in world terms thanks to the capitalist system. Yes we have extremely wealthy people, but is that a bad thing or good thing considering the poorest of our poor is still rich compared to the average person living in the world today.

In the US, no one starves or goes without food, in fact there is too much food, we all have to keep from getting too fat. That's luxury and something the real poor living in Haiti or Somalia can only dream of. Too much food, everyone (that wants one) with a roof over their heads? Yes our homeless are crazies, shelter is available, they just choose to wander around and since they're free people, no one can force them to stay in a mission or make them responsible enough to share an apartment with a few roommates. Sounds like a pretty good system to me, far better than the poverty routinely found in communist countries like Cuba or North Korea, and better even than the socialist countries in Europe.

When I went to Europe, I was shocked that France and Germany were considered First World countries. The small apartments and conditions of the buildings are horrible compared to the US. And you have to pay for public restrooms, ketchup or condiments at restaurants, and even napkins? All that is free here, we have so much people can just take it. Incredible how no one will copy from the world leader but will take suggestions from second or lower place countries. It's like a C student telling the A student how to get good grades, or copying a test off of the C student when you could copy from the A student. Insane.

 

[gm0n3y]

@azxcvbnm321,

You make it sound like having more than you need is a good thing. The US has been wasting the world's resources for decades now while a large portion of the world aren't sure if they'll have any food tomorrow. Yes your great American imperialist / capitalist system is perfect! Americans get fat and lazy off the backs of the poor in other countries. I'm not suggesting that I have a better alternative, I'm just saying that to blindly think that pure capitalism will make the world a better place is very naive.

Looking that UN's list of countries with the highest living standards (called the Human Development Index), the US is ranked 15th. Of the 14 countries that are better to live in than the US are Canada, Australia, Japan and 11 European countries.

All I'm trying to say here is that mixing some socialism into your capitalism is a good idea.

 

[blackbeastofaaaaagh]

azxcvbnm321,
Well written, but I would like to comment:
I do agree with your reasons for pure socialism's guaranteed failure. However, at the same time, I do not endorse the other extreme: "laissez faire" economics. Money is power and power gets you money. Some safegards and regulations do have to be in place to prevent Carl Marx's prophecy from kicking in.

Also it is simplistic to judge a populaces quality of life purely on the size of their houses and how much food and other goods they can acquire with their income. Japan has the highest per capita income (of any industrial country anyways) yet score the poorest in the several psychiatric studies for happiness. The USA also scores near the bottom of most of these tests.

As to whether the US model is an A or a C, that is yet to be determined, what with the recent mortage crisis and the collapse on Wallstreet. Many would say that we seemed very prosperous for the last 25 years because we were living on borrowed money.

I read an interesting, if not controversial, article in MONEY comparing the USA to France. Our govt. is set to become just as big as theirs, once it has to buy up all those assets in failed banks, failed mortgages and other industries. Our taxes are also set to be just as high (~ 55%). Don't forget, it was not too long ago that the top earners in the US were paying 90% tax for the the highest earning bracket (that changed, for better or for worse, with Reagan economics). However the French will still get to enjoy free health care, max. 38 hr work days (studies have repeatedly shown that in the IT sector, if your workers work more than 40 hours then your productivity drops), 3X the vacation days, and affordable higher education. It seems that we will, just like the people on the other side of the Atlantic, be taking our bitter medicine, except they get to enjoy its benefits as well.

On a side note:
What would you rather do if you got to go really bad. Use a really filthy public restroom or pay 50 cents and get to use one that is beloved patriot and span and cleaned every hour or so.

 

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I think France charge for their ketchup and stuff cuz the country is expensive and the extra costs are not included like in america in fast foods (u really think that companies will not charge you ketchup, is already included in the price but they not mentioned), second, neither system is perfect because everyone with power get corrupt in order to reach higher probabilities of being alive and or also to maintain their status or way of life, comunism fail in rusia cuz the corruption of those who has power, but in those days you can make a line for food and not starved (comunism) but they now are capitalists and no more waitings lines for food, now u literally die if you dont have a job, is like my country in peru here you dont have benefits like in usa, when you are unemployed the goverment helps you to survive like for 6 months or even finds a job for you, u just die here, you are in your own, in usa people gets corrupted by companies by given especial bonuses and free golf membership to judges in order to obtain benefits or change legislation to survive among other companies (companies are like any human being trying to survive no matter whats in the way), so we need in the end a system that allows us all to ensure the first step in the piramid of maslow evolution (covering cost for food and cloth) second once our survival is not in stake nobody can be forced or pushed to do anything in order to survive, then we need that the system dont allow saving money for anyone(so no one can corrupts the other) then we all receive a basic bonus for food, cloth, to rent a apartment maybe then we receive additional credits to be use exclusive change be us for other goods we need like cars, houses, computers, in other words luxuries or items not needed for our survival, we work to improve our technology and science nothing else. How we prevent nobody maybe works for making food and what about the energy problem, well this system is maked for the future when robots can take charge of all our food chain and create more robots with no IA that can create and mantein this robots... energy well the fusion machine will helps a lot here using just hidrogen( the most abundant element in the universe) to obtain all power we need ( by 2020 the fusion can be possible in large scale) right now korea already have a prototype that works making the fusion energy a reality, so i really hope the future can be more and less like this...

 

[Guest]

This guy should worry about regulating losers like tele evangelical nut boy ted haggard.

I am one of the first gamers started at 10. playing pong, the atari 2600 and on and on still playing games for 34 years. I also grew up watching a rabbit dropping anvils on the coyote. remeber boys and girls that cartoons are bad for you too. im 44 yrs old and just beat fallout3. I hold a good paying job have a family and grown childern. and I vote! I do not have a record nor have I done anything violent to my fellow human beings. prodigit80 you are blind. this is just like what the tv nazi's said about cartoons when i was a kid and now you cant find a good cartoon to save your life. Califonians must see thru this bull or the video game market will be destroyed the same way.

Again this dumbshit needs to worry about important government worries like tarp oversight or evangelical nut boys fleecing or humping their flock. Not how the masses entertain themselves