Digital games

According to the film, what are some pros and cons of playing video-games for individuals and societies?

Pros:

According to the film, playing video-games is good for children to learn more and to inspire their thinking. As they need to deliberate strategies during the gaming and it will enhance the use of brain. Otherwise, playing video games could provide a way for adults to release their stresses. Because of video game is the way to entertain.  You and Your friends could sit at the room play for whole day and didn’t go out. It will easier to concentrate a group of people to play and discuss such activities. So it will boost up large profits towards the economy of countries.

Cons:

It is easily addicted for some people, like the teenagers who have less ability on judgments about wrong and right. Since teenagers are difficult to control themselves, the addiction of video games will cause such problems to the society, like some of the teenagers will hide themselves at home without working and studying.

According the film, is there any evidence that digital games can encourage aggressive values and anti-social actions in the real world? Do you agree?

The film actually mentioned some of the criminal which also happened in the reality. For example, the players are holding a gun to shoot some of the “bad man” and they will repeat it thousands of times. Honestly, the film will promote some of the aggressive values in the real world; maybe they will imitate the way to shoot people or to murder people. In my own view, it must have some reasons to arouse violence behaviors such as family background, unhappy childhood experiences and so on. Therefore, we cannot simply judge the digital games will enhance aggressive values in the real world.

Should governments have the right to ban certain games? Why or why not?

I think that the governments should have the tight to ban it. If the government does not control the contents of games, it will cause a great disaster towards the society and morality. The players of video games are mainly target on teenagers and the majority of them are not mature enough to judge the right and wrong.