*Transcendental *Logic

Know someone who’s got a dangerous gaming addiction? Here’s a really good first-person account of someone who kicked the habit, and a good followup discussion of whether gaming really is an addiction that can ruin your life. For my part, I feel exactly the same way about television. If, in the calm eye of your inner maelstrom, what you really want to do with your life, your precious life that may be over when you get hit by a bus tomorrow, is watch TV (or play video games) for five hours, then that’s wonderful and you should be commended for doing it. But you’re the one responsible for how you spend your life. If you’re just doing it out of habit, which is another way of saying that you shirked your responsibility to know what you really want, then you’re gonna have to face that one day, and it’s not a confrontation you’re going to enjoy.

In another show of hideous misinterpretation of personal responsibility, schools in Britain are banning the game “tag”. Yes, tag. The one where kids, um, run around. No more running around, because they’re too worried about themselves getting sued to possibly have space to care what’s good for the children they’re in charge of. I would rip my kid out of a school like that so fast it would leave burn-marks on the lockers. So ALL the children get to have less exercise, less education (running around is a necessary part of a child’s basic education, as any knowledgeable person will tell you), and less of the kind of semi-structured social interaction they need, because YOU’RE worried about your godsdamned pocketbook? You should be sued for that, dipshits. Take a stand if you think the law is unfair regarding who can sue you and why, or make your stand in court over unfair suits individually, but don’t punish hundreds of children because you’re afraid of a little responsibility. Or get the heck out of education; it’s *definitely* not your field!

And that’s the news today. A little depressing, but educational overall. ;)

-PD

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