It is debatable whether playing games is helpful to learn about life. Some people think that people are taught of society rules by playing games thus it has a lot of benefits to human society.
However, I believe that playing games negative impacts to human's life because people confuse to recognize between real society and imaginary and real life is not as simple as games.
First of all, games, unreality place, affect negatively people's ordinary life due of its stimulus.
High quality graphic and dramatic stories tempt people especially who want to be out of their hectic life because they are already exhausted by their typical life and looking any special material. Games that Imaginary places are perfectly suitable to satisfy to them because anything is able to do whatever they want such as gaining money by stolen and killed who they hate. Therefore, sometime it causes crime in real society because people become confused where they are really in now. According to studies by KBS, Korean national Broadcasting System, the rates of offense from people who addict by games are 25% higher than 10 years ago. Also, they suspect that the possibility would be getting higher than now because of developing new game, especially the online games.
In this sense, playing games affects badly to human society.
Secondly, the real world is not simple like games.
Rules in game are extremely simple. On the online game, for example, people who have a strong weapon always win when any situation. However, the real community is totally different story. When people are in competition like on the online game, they should care of numerous aspects such as complex situations and relationship with co-workers. It is not alternative matter like games because we are possible to lose even if we do our best.
Since life is much more complicate than games, people do not gain any wisdom by playing them.
To sum, since unreality situations and simple rules in game world, we cannot learn any insight by playing games. |