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Originally posted by ARTelevision
Yeah, I just think the impassioned defense of this stuff is silly.
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Would you say that a passionate defense of ones ability to look at adult entertainment is silly too? I'm sure you'd agree that most adult entertainment is incredibly mind dulling. Are you saying that you'd have no problem if some pandering politician decided that porn/erotica are the next great corrupter of our society? You'd just sit back and say, "Well, he does have a point." Or would you formulate an argument counter to that and claim that there is some value in adult entertainment?
What's silly is the idea that videogames by themselves can have some sort of deleterious effect on anyone.
It seems like you just want everyone to admit that videogames have no inherent value to society as a whole. The fact that many of us won't you attribute to some sort of intellectual dishonesty. If you're going to take that position tell me what leisure activity does have value to society? If i were to claim that you were dulling the minds of society and causing more harm than good how would you refute my statement? How would you do it without being silly?