Sin Pew
SWARTA
Mostly Clueless
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Posted - 2012.04.20 14:28:00 -
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You can't label some gamers with a psychiatric condition because they find fun in causing some distress to others, it's nothing different from teenagers acting cruel to the ones they don't like in highschool because they're different.
Some people will drink to illness, others will do some sports, or perform another hobby IRL, and some people act up in virtual spaceships. They might have a problem, but it has nothing to do with the game itself and I'm pretty sure eve online isn't part of the clinical diagnosis process.
Psychopathy is a mental illness someone is born with, not to be confused with the violent psychotics. Sociopathy is inherited through environmental influences over childhood. Both are antisocial behaviours showing a lack of emotional response to good or evil, no empathy. You can't compare that with greed.
The impulses of a guy tricking someone over the internet for some (virtual) profit, is nothing compared to a psychopathetic impulses.
If every person manipulating others, or taking advantage of a situation for their personal benefit was to be labeled psychopaths, the guy sneaking before you to get a better place in the theater while you look behind you for a few seconds, would be a psychopath as well, the guy selling you car as well, and the girl on the phone trying to sell you a new lawn mower with a mortgage. We would all be psychopaths actually...
Parents mistakes in educting a child, don't necessarily lead to severe mental diseases, psychology today and other junk magazines are doing serious damages though.
Also, it's almost been a month now, the goons-bashing threads, as disguised as they might be, are growing really old. Wait, isn't that a pattern of obsessional and compulsive behaviours... News of the hour: Virtual Tourettes have invaded New Eden.
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? |