Comment Re:I need help (Score 1) 617
So, I really don't see MMORPG's as being either better or worse than TV, Coffee, Cigarettes, or Boozahol.
Consider the stay at home parents who slavishly watch their five soap oprahs a day.
Consider your own starbucks addiction, the $70+ dollars you drop on Latte's a week.
Consider the guy who spends 3-8 hours a day in the bar after work.
Consider the really smart kid in the back of the class room who's failing his classes because he reads all day instead of paying attention or doing his homework.
The problem is not the item, rather it is the combination of an addictive personality, and an intense desire to escape reality.
For those people who don't have an addictive personality, who don't feel a need to escape their own lives, WoW isn't dangerous. For those who do have these problems, its not a question of IF their lives will get ruined, but which thing they will use to ruin their lives.
Consider the stay at home parents who slavishly watch their five soap oprahs a day.
Consider your own starbucks addiction, the $70+ dollars you drop on Latte's a week.
Consider the guy who spends 3-8 hours a day in the bar after work.
Consider the really smart kid in the back of the class room who's failing his classes because he reads all day instead of paying attention or doing his homework.
The problem is not the item, rather it is the combination of an addictive personality, and an intense desire to escape reality.
For those people who don't have an addictive personality, who don't feel a need to escape their own lives, WoW isn't dangerous. For those who do have these problems, its not a question of IF their lives will get ruined, but which thing they will use to ruin their lives.
