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Originally posted by ARTelevision
yatzr, what I fail to understand is the refusal to accept that much of what is foisted on children these days is deleterious to their best interests. No one is interested in taking adult-oriented content away from adults. No one here, anyway.
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I refuse to accept it because I've played video games for the past 16 years of my 20 year life, and I KNOW that it was never deleterious to my best interests. I give credit to video games teaching me to be a logical thinker, to do things in a systematic way (as well as teaching me to think "outside the box"). I now (well...always have) excel in math and logic. I easily get A's in all of my college calculus/difeq and math based engineering classes. Maybe I was born with those skills, but video games definately helped tone them. So I say that video games are not mind-dulling (although, since this again is only personal experience, I'm sure it will have absolutely no bearing on your opinion). They challenge the mind to think more than any other media. Even the most violent games challenge your mind to come up with the best solution. I fail to see how that is harmful to a child as long as they know it is not real life.
I know nobody is trying to take adult content from adults. But when I give my kids a video game, I don't want people yelling at me that I don't know my kids' best interests. Video games (no matter how violent) are not going to hurt my kids. What would hurt my kids would be my not taking the responsibility to teach them what is right and wrong and show them that video games are not real life. I understand this. People that attack video games do not.