Wednesday 5 October 2016

Gaming ethics

Impact of computer games on society







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Negatives


concerns such as excess playing time


Overplaying is a huge issue if you play too much. Playing too much can lead to to many problems both mentally and physically. Physically it can damage your eyes and you will be left physically unfit, mentally playing to long can cause social isolation which could resolve in your family being concerned for you. In very rare cases people have died from playing too many video games but they would have played for a very long time:    

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/tragic-teen-gamer-dies-after-6373887
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/19/world/taiwan-gamer-death/

social issues


social problems can occur when the person playing games does not go and talk to anyone or go outside. The will get more and more anti social making it harder to become a normal member of society. This will also affect them mentally as they might think that what is on there game can be done in real life, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Petric

These types of events are very rare and do not happen very often.

Benefits


There are many advantages to playing videos games and they are very useful and sometimes life saving. There are many uses for people around the world and they can be used for soldiers in the army for training help. People reaction time is also faster which can help avoid an accident because they are faster than the average person. Video games have had a massive impact on the world and 



http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/playing-war-how-the-military-uses-video-games/280486/

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