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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States44585 Posts
You can have a kid who's excelling in school and gets all his work done and still can't play for four hours on a Saturday? Not everyone is great at basketball x.x And especially in South Korea, some pro-gamers there are responsible role models (Boxer?). | ||
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Ryndika
1489 Posts
On January 29 2012 00:10 Chernobyl wrote: Thats good. The kids need to study more, and dont play videogames all day long. I think Leenock is too young to stop studing and work as a player, per example. Maybe we should put a law where you must study for 3hours every day, because: not playing games =/= studying. First I was like, well I would be outrageous if this was going on in my country but as it is, south korean is very different culture from finnish and it's probably better if I only look at objective things like, what will now actually happen to many underage progamers in south korea  ? My best wishes for their future.That said, I hope this doesn't become reality. | ||
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LittLeD
Sweden7973 Posts
Ugh | ||
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Dbla08
United States211 Posts
I can't believe they are imposing such restrictions in an otherwise liberal democracy. In the West, enforcing this is called "parenting" and if you do a bad job it is your fault not the government's. a "liberal democracy" is one with infinitely more govt intervention than a true conservative democracy, as a conservative democracy will have a very limited central govt. also in the West, or at least the U.S the gov't takes full blame for not educating/raising your children, and then takes them away as wards of the state. anything to have a reason to spend more tax money and get bigger gov't and more regulations, a "liberal" democracy is a contradiction in term | ||
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SnipedSoul
Canada2158 Posts
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Luepert
United States1933 Posts
Anyways it does make sense from a utilitarian standpoint. | ||
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Voltaire
United States1485 Posts
On January 29 2012 04:37 Dbla08 wrote: a "liberal democracy" is one with infinitely more govt intervention than a true conservative democracy, as a conservative democracy will have a very limited central govt. also in the West, or at least the U.S the gov't takes full blame for not educating/raising your children, and then takes them away as wards of the state. anything to have a reason to spend more tax money and get bigger gov't and more regulations, a "liberal" democracy is a contradiction in term Great, now this thread is going to be derailed into a "classical liberal" vs "modern liberal" debate... Both of the words "liberal" and "conservative" have complex definitions that have changed over time. | ||
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doovchan
Canada111 Posts
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SilverLeagueElite
United States626 Posts
Since you can't say that everyone will be more productive, overall, I'd consider it a net loss. Not only would a little bit of freedom be eroded, but you'd have some parents shirking responsibility onto the government. There are plenty worse things to be addicted to than games. Strange how kids in the west have problems with ADD, while the east have problems with kids being too focused. | ||
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attwell
United States220 Posts
1: lack of supervision, if both parents works most of the day and you have a child who walks home on their own after school, how can you make sure he only plays X hours a day? 2: parental controls don't always work, let's face it, parents are bad with technology. The amount of time/effort it would take some parents to set up parental controls on their kids SC2 account is somewhat prohibitive. Granted it is a breach of personal rights, wasting hours a day as a child playing online video games is not productive, being forced to do other activities would have definitely benefited a lot of kids I know. | ||
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Teodice
Sweden641 Posts
I guess there is nothing more to it then following this process! | ||
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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
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Cutlery
Norway565 Posts
Mom or dad goes to the police (or w/e) telling them how much their kid has been gaming, and are penalized with a fine? Isn't that like shooting yourself in the foot? | ||
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Taekwon
United States8155 Posts
Korean education is really about to go out of control, the conditions there are ridiculous >_< | ||
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Deleted User 183001
2939 Posts
Still, this law is really extreme. It's just retarded. And what are they going to arrest kids for overgaming? Lol Nah, they send them to shit like this: http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/01/18/how-koreans-treat-game-addicted-children | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States44585 Posts
Not to mention the fact that *not* playing video games doesn't mean they'll be focusing on schoolwork. | ||
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Hetairoi
Sweden508 Posts
On January 29 2012 03:10 zalz wrote: This simply comes down to whether the government should or should regulate it's citizen's lives to this degree. Western v Eastern views on government. I tend to lean a great deal more towards the west. The government shouldn't spend it's time on managing it's population to this degree. It's not the governments task to cultivate an army of perfect citizens. Except for that the west is doing it more and more for everyday. It's disgusting that people actually wants have their personal life controlled by the government. | ||
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scarper65
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FauvFauv
United States34 Posts
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