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<blockquote data-quote="Gibili" data-source="post: 7751891" data-attributes="member: 6682820"><p>Yes, exactly. I don't know if "by nature" is correct but we are animals and we will respond to positive experiences by seeking more of it. It's a basic survival technique. Found food in a specific location? Maybe there's a good chance that if you go back to that point you'll find more.</p><p>However when anything we do has a negative impact on our lives or those around us, rather than a positive or at least neutral impact, then it starts being a problem. Drugs, alcohol, exercise, reading novels, watching TV, games, work whatever.</p><p>There is nothing inherently "bad" about Fortnite anymore than than there is something inherently bad about the World Cup, reading a book, a glass of wine, jogging or collecting sea shells. It isn't black and white folks, there is a point along a continuum where it starts becoming a problem.</p><p>I'm a father of a 13 year old son who loves playing Fortnite with his mates. I do have to rein his playing in because he will start playing to the exclusion of everything else. So in moderation it is great fun, to excess it is not.</p><p></p><p>Oh how we love to pigeon-hole things "good" and "bad", how we love to have a simple target to blame for the ills of the world, and how we love therefore to absent ourselves from taking any personal responsibility for these sorts of things, for ourselves and for our dependants! "It's someone else's fault. Blame them. There's nothing I have to do or have to take action for because if it is, I have to face that responsibility and face the unpleasent actions and consequences and I don't want to...so you take the rap for me".</p><p></p><p>Politicians, parents etc love to blame easy targets because it makes the situation seem simple, the solution seem simple and you can fit it all into a 30 second sound byte which makes you look and feel like you are really doing something.</p><p>It's much harder to say that the probem is much more complicated, solving it may be unpalatable and hard work, or even "I don't actually know how to solve it" and that we all share a responsibility to work on this together.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gibili, post: 7751891, member: 6682820"] Yes, exactly. I don't know if "by nature" is correct but we are animals and we will respond to positive experiences by seeking more of it. It's a basic survival technique. Found food in a specific location? Maybe there's a good chance that if you go back to that point you'll find more. However when anything we do has a negative impact on our lives or those around us, rather than a positive or at least neutral impact, then it starts being a problem. Drugs, alcohol, exercise, reading novels, watching TV, games, work whatever. There is nothing inherently "bad" about Fortnite anymore than than there is something inherently bad about the World Cup, reading a book, a glass of wine, jogging or collecting sea shells. It isn't black and white folks, there is a point along a continuum where it starts becoming a problem. I'm a father of a 13 year old son who loves playing Fortnite with his mates. I do have to rein his playing in because he will start playing to the exclusion of everything else. So in moderation it is great fun, to excess it is not. Oh how we love to pigeon-hole things "good" and "bad", how we love to have a simple target to blame for the ills of the world, and how we love therefore to absent ourselves from taking any personal responsibility for these sorts of things, for ourselves and for our dependants! "It's someone else's fault. Blame them. There's nothing I have to do or have to take action for because if it is, I have to face that responsibility and face the unpleasent actions and consequences and I don't want to...so you take the rap for me". Politicians, parents etc love to blame easy targets because it makes the situation seem simple, the solution seem simple and you can fit it all into a 30 second sound byte which makes you look and feel like you are really doing something. It's much harder to say that the probem is much more complicated, solving it may be unpalatable and hard work, or even "I don't actually know how to solve it" and that we all share a responsibility to work on this together. [/QUOTE]
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