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Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting (www.techdirt.com)
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Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting::Video game addiction. Sigh. Big sigh, even. Like, the biggest of sighs. We've talked about claims that video game addiction is a documentable affliction in the past, as well as the pushback that claim has received from addiction experts, who have pointed out that much of this is being done to allow doctors to get…

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[–] CosmicCleric 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Two things.

First, teenagers are also children, and every product that you describe would not fit them, those are more for the very young.

Second, we're talking about designing the game in such a way that it provokes the brain in the same way a drug would, in essence being a drug itself.