Regarding the WHO game addiction disease decision: To me, it has always seemed that any psychologically engaging activity can lead to behavior that's typical of addiction. Singling out games is interesting - I'd say they're better at engaging the brain than the competition.
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A side thing for anyone with legal know how - what are the impacts of it being categorized as a disease? On stuff like social security? What if an employee struggles to perform because they play too many games, would that being a disease impact labor law?
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if you're talking about what i think you're talking about, we've been discussing it at my uni recently, and most people just find it odd it's more likened to drug addiction and gambling rather than anything else, and it could absolutely lead to alarmism, causing parents to panic-
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and send their kids of to be 'cured' of non-harmful behavior.
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it's a shame you don't speak Spanish (as far as I know) I'd love to show you an embarrassment of a news report they did here about game addiction
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I've used video games to escape real life problems in likely unhealthy and addictive ways, I don't view acknowledgement of such this is inherently bad. Studying the issue can help therapists, etc learn how to better help patients who use them in not-healthy ways.
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