South Korea Implements Anti-Gaming Law - Page 6

On July 04 2012 08:15 sc14s wrote:

actually i dropped out of school (1st yr college) and quit my job because of the game so yes it can be equal to crack in my estimation.

On July 04 2012 13:40 SpaceFighting wrote:
the thing is, even though i love progaming and such, it really does fk u up in terms on education... although it didn't effect me much, a majority of people who want to become a progamer.. DONT, and if ur unsuccessful, with a shitty background in ur education, ur screwed.. or u have to waste counless years on giving urself a foundation for university.

stand by it

On July 04 2012 11:32 RHMVNovus wrote:

Before I start, I would like to say, sc14s, that I am not attempting to belittle your very real plight. Your situation is extremely saddening, but I am certain I am not alone in wishing you all the best, both in StarCraft and in life. That said...

The plural of anecdote is not data, and it is most certainly not chemical dependency.

That's a bit harsh, I'll concede, but if there is no physiological need for gaming - i.e. withdrawal symptoms becoming manifest - calling it an addiction reduces the term 'addiction' to something utterly meaningless. It allows the following sentence to be valid: "I'm addicted to conversation - can't even go a day without it! I'm hooked on people!"

The term 'Gaming Addiction' conflates the connotation of the medical term 'addiction' with the technical definition of the term 'Hobby,' taking the accuracy from 'Hobby' (people do spend massive amounts of time on this and other hobbies, after all) and the terror from the word 'addiction' (which, as a very real public health issue, is worthy of legislation). However, Gaming Addiction does not produce physiological cravings - therefore, it fails to fulfill any meaningful medical definition of addiction, meaning that the phrase is itself a contradiction. Moreover, if you argue that you are not using the term 'addiction' in the medical sense, then your definition and the consequent legislation of it has no place in public policy.

Here's the Definition from the American Psychological Association.

This was, again, rather harsh, but I am a firm believer that addiction is a term that, if it should become widely misused, can have disastrous impacts on public policy. The U.S., my homeland, incarcerates addicts as we speak. If we adopt the definition of 'addiction' - as advocated in this thread - that implies that the user is not under physical duress to take the drug, then we are only allowing the perpetuation of a viciously unscientific system by arguing that they are not suffering from a disease, but are rather amoral social deviants. This utter disregard for reality - a negligence embedded into public policy - is something I utterly loathe. This is a consequence of the lazy and negligent definitions being brandied about in our dialogue of addiction and even in this thread. Ergo, I believe my rather acrid words justified.

As I said, I do not wish to call your experiences anything other than trying. Please believe my sincerity on this matter.

On July 04 2012 07:50 Clarity_nl wrote:


You don't believe someone who is overweight is addicted to food first glance nor do I believe someone is addicted to gaming because they play games a lot at first glance.

Doesn't mean there aren't fat people who are addicted to food and gamers who are addicted to games.
Sure, it's not a physical addiction (although you could make a case for it with adrenaline and other stuff your brain does to you), but it's an addiction nonetheless.

You know what else is (barely) physical? Smoking. You go cold turkey that shit is out of you in a day, so why do people have such a tough time quitting smoking...? They're addicted to it, mentally.

On July 04 2012 15:57 sc14s wrote:

Just as an aside that (what happened) was years ago.

you are arguing semantics about the difference between a physical chemical addiction and a mental addiction.. obviously they are different, You are pretty much taking it too literal and missing the point.


but regardless of if its "addiction" or not it is still possibly destructive to individuals which is what actually matters.

On July 04 2012 13:37 logikly wrote:
everyone screen was showing starcraft.... no wonder these guys are so good. A side note. Korea really needs to learn how to be parents and control their children these laws are quite asinine.

On July 05 2012 06:14 Supamang wrote:

Yes all Koreans are bad parents because of SC...

On July 04 2012 03:09 Megaliskuu wrote:



Did you see that thread that was posted here just a few days ago by that guy who has been playing for 2 years, still in plat league, who quit his job and everything. Thats an addiction lol.