http://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/teamkenan/your-angry-birds-addiction-is-good-for-you/ Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:18:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/teamkenan/your-angry-birds-addiction-is-good-for-you/#comment-5 Bethany Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:07:40 +0000 http://devilsdilemma.wordpress.com/?p=197#comment-5 I think the WSJ brings up some good points, as do your post! I've always found it odd when people blame, as you so aptly put it, the "root of all evils", on videogames (substitute: rock and roll music, hip hop, Eminem...name your social scapegoat du jour). Such a view lets us look past larger social and cultural issues and instead blame an external factors. Moreover, I liked the point that video games can provide positive influences. Sure, playing Angry Birds for five hours a day might leave some things to be desired but video games can provide a community that otherwise might not exist, or that couldn't even normally communicate with each other due to language or cultural issues. I can't say I'm sold that video games are the best thing ever for all of us but I have spent a fair share of time on FIFA soccer myself and I don't think its done me any immeasurable harm. I think the WSJ brings up some good points, as do your post! I’ve always found it odd when people blame, as you so aptly put it, the “root of all evils”, on videogames (substitute: rock and roll music, hip hop, Eminem…name your social scapegoat du jour). Such a view lets us look past larger social and cultural issues and instead blame an external factors. Moreover, I liked the point that video games can provide positive influences. Sure, playing Angry Birds for five hours a day might leave some things to be desired but video games can provide a community that otherwise might not exist, or that couldn’t even normally communicate with each other due to language or cultural issues. I can’t say I’m sold that video games are the best thing ever for all of us but I have spent a fair share of time on FIFA soccer myself and I don’t think its done me any immeasurable harm.

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