Ban Video Games

Ban Video Games

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September 26, 2021
Signatures: 394Next Goal: 500
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Started by Thumbs Destiny

 

Video g#mes are a blight on society. They lead to apathy, anti-social behavior and violence. There's a ton of evidence proving video g#mes are bad, and that they even kill. Video g#mes are functionally the same as designer drugs.

#1. They're a highly addictive...

"Gaming companies are enlisting the help of PhD behavioural psychologists using state-of-the-art research and data to make their games as addictive as possible." Source: https://gamequitters.com/are-video-games-addictive/

#2. Lead to mental illness...

The American Psychiatric Association and the World Health Organization have both recognized the mental illness "g#ming disorder."  Sources:

https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/internet-gaming 

https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/gaming-disorder

#3. And video g#mes have even been known to be direct contributing factors of several deaths....

https://7news.com.au/sport/soccer/football-coach-24-died-from-blood-clot-after-playing-video-games-in-lockdown-c-1141225

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020462/Xbox-addict-20-killed-blood-clot-12-hour-gaming-sessions.html

https://medium.com/tech-critical/playing-video-games-is-killing-you-cb99e6663c2a

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=El7kwIpjrtQ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l0hEUGC5dwk

If video g#mes weren't so popular around the world then they'd be banned already.

Pray for g#mers, and support the cause at r/BanVideoGames 

Sincerely,

- Sir Peter of Beacon Street

Sent from 2 DixieTM Cups & a String.

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