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  Video Games, should there be a two hour limit per day?

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  Video games are the bane of this generation. No child should spend more than two hours per day on them. I will grant two hours for fun and then no more.

  jerry-book started this discussion 1 year ago. ( reply | permalink )

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  Linus Rian~can't wait to go HOME!!!~ 

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  I agree too and it should not be only children even teenagers and adults in some cases are addicts and something should be done about it!!!.

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    Vamperay 

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    True, they attract quite the range of users. But they are no more then a pastime, and should be treated as such. It is true that in some cases they can be abused but is that not true as with anything? I think that if the child teen or adult is productive in every other sense then they should be free to do as they wish with their well earned free time. But all users have to be careful not to fall in to the trap of overuse, be able to see when their pastime has developed into an addiction that is taking over their life. Two hours seems a bit harsh as a maximum, but I would say that when you start going more than 5 hours every day you should take a step back and get a hold of your bearings.

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  call girl, no phone ♥ 

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  Lol, yeah. Video games affect your eyesight for one thing, and also sometimes causes you severe damage and of course has affects on your mental health. Plus, there's only 24 hours a day, children should learn to use them sensibily.

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    Vamperay (edited)

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    Sensibly yes, but say that it is the end of the day, a child has finished all of his or her schoolwork, and all of his or her friends are going online to play a multiplayer video game together. Would you deny that child the chance to converse and "spend time" with his or her friends when otherwise he or she would be laying at home under the antisocial rock most likely doing nothing but staring at he ceiling? And if I remember correctly play dates last longer than two hours

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  [Lizzie] "Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage." -Ray Bradbury 

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  Okay, if you're a kid and spending WAY too much time watching T.V. and playing video games, the parents can limit that, but come on; I really hope no one here is suggesting we impose a national limit on video games or something. I know America's obesity crisis is REALLY a crisis, and staring at a computer screen for hours on end cannot be healthy for one's eyes, but I think that it should up to the child's caretaker(s). Adults, on the other hand, don't need a limit; they can make decisions for themselves, whether good or bad.
  (And know this, because, for this debate, it's a very important piece of information: I'm NOT a "gamer.")

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    Vamperay 

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    It matters not if you are or are not a gamer my friend, for one can argue any point whether or not they are actually invested, part of the fun in it as a matter a fact :)

    But I agree for the most part other than the fact that adults do not need a limit. You forget the adults are simply children who have grown up and do, at times, need a slap on the back of the hand and a reality check. Even more so than children sometimes for they are so sure in the thinking that they do what they want and will live with the consequences be what they might. But if you were slowly letting your life circle the drain while you wasted away in front of a screen would you not want someone to shut off the power and show you what you were doing to yourself? Make you realize?

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  jerry-book 

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  Well, people like the idea of a limit but they don't want Big Brother enforcing it. Understandable.

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    Vamperay 

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    Understandable indeed...
    No one wants to be the big bad wolf knocking on everybody's doors and shutting off the power.
    No one wants to be the one handing out the reality checks.
    But if no one wants to, who will do it. It is one thing to think something, but a something different entirely to actually do it. It is the difference between a bad situation and a good one. What is and what could have been.

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  theGreatandPowerfulGracieGrace-an OTP is the fictional couple you think about when Coldplay's "Fix You" comes on 

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  it would be impossible to install a national limit. besides, what if a girl with a broken ankle that can stand with a little help, but would like to stay in shape for those 6 weeks she can't play basketball by playing Just Dance for 2-4 hours a day?

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    Vamperay 

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    Good point there, although I believe that the doctors would simply point her towards the nearest treadmill to go walk on.

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  Miss Maia~Loony Lovegood Lover <3 

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  This idea makes sense, but who could enforce it?

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    Linus Rian~can't wait to go HOME!!!~ 

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    Its just not possible,like previously said parents may enforce the limit on children but for adults,its just not possible. Alas!

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    Miss Maia~Loony Lovegood Lover <3 

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    Exactly! This couldn't really be a law...more a suggestion.

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    Vamperay 

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    Not impossible, simply utterly improbable. No one is going to limit what people do in their free time, whether that be video games or quidditch. If a law was ever proposed it would be scoffed at and thrown back in their faces. That is the simple fact; It would be seen as an infringement upon everyone's freedoms and it would in turn born whispers of a communist nation. Not something the government is going to ensue simply to cut back on some peoples usage of video games by a few hours a day.

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