Playing Video Games is not a crime

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BY Variety News PH 3:31 PM 0

Playing Video Games is not a crime

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There's a recent stir in  the Philippine social media today that a famous video game called DotA 2 was banned in a Village in Dasmariñas, Cavity, Philippines because of an incident wherein a teenager has killed a fellow gamer he had trash talked on the internet cafe.

Because of the incident, an action was taken by the local officials of the Village, which was to ban the game from ever being played. This news has reached the national news in a storm and also caught the attention of other government officials, "Should we ban the game here in our city as well?"

There were mixed reactions by the netizens, but most of it disagrees with the appeal. "Games do not kill, people do." Says one of the netizens who commented on the social media where such news were posted. Others implied that it is because of the lack of discipline that urged the killing, it was just a game, why take it seriously?

Many Filipino netizens challenged the government to ban drugs first instead of picking on things they can easily handle. Games are addictive, but it totally depends on whoever uses it. If you think that games are just casual free time hobby, then you must be mentally fit. But if a person kills just because he was mad that he was trash talked, then it's not the game that's the problem here, but the people itself.

To ban games, which reduced the number of teenagers who smoked, drink alcohol and used drugs is ridiculous. There are major problems the country has faced than this bullshit. How many people died because of sports? There are many, but were they banned? No, because accidents happen. You can't obviously blame a game for a man's uncontrolled temper.

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