A few years ago, a student from Georgia Tech. killed and injured a quite of lot of students at the campus. From the investigation of police, the student commited such an immoral crime, because he was addicted to a gun-shooting game. Myriads of people in the world believe that games are only doing harms. However, I personally believe that games are able to make people realize some important lessons about life. One can learn about the importance of following social rules as well as instilling a spirit of cooperation.
To begin with, games can teach people, especially the little kids, the significance of following rules in the society. Most of the normal children start their social life when they join the kindergarden. From then, they have to follow certain rules that teachers tell them, such as asking for permission if they want to use something or behaving well with friends. They learn those important rules quite fast and easily via playing fun games, such as playing hide-and-seek or board games. In games, there must be rules to follow for the players in order to make the game proceed faster and prevent any disputes. In the case of children learning the rules, they learn the rules of the games naturally. Those help children to become more like respectful grown-ups.
Not only that, some games require the cooperation with teams. People in the game must know how to put their full effort in it and collaborate with each other. For example in a soccer match, some players are defencing and some are forward. However, most of the people want to be the forwards, because those are the ones who makes the goals often. But, not all can be forwards, so they must talk to each other and clear up the discussion. During that process, people learn to collaborate and cooperate each other. Morever, not only in the sport games, but this applies also in the computer games as well. Children usually fight over a computer to play computer games. But later, they realize that they have to negotiate that they have to use one at a time. They learn to wait for what they want and negotiate when necessary.
To sum up my points, there are people who thinks that games are bad for people, but if you use the game wisely and use to learn skills and helpful abilities to go through your lives, games can be beneficial as well. In fact, games can help people to learn about following social rules and cooperation in the society that they belong to. |