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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ferret" data-source="post: 3643479" data-attributes="member: 4052">I love ENWorld, in many other places I'd expect this to devolve into flames <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Now onto the topic: This is a tragic thing for the two kids to go through, but there no indication of what the house was like or the parents (did they show the same neglect to the hygiene of the house etc?). The lines about the cause of the neglect and the symptoms ("too distracted by online video games" and "They had food; they just chose not to give it to their kids because they were too busy playing video games.") both come for the prosecutor, whose job it is to blame someone/thing. She couldn't build a case on them *just* being bad parents. At least that's my view. Her case needed to build on the ideologies and myths that "TV rots your brain" and "Video games are bad for you" which a jury would be able to support and understand. Not that I can deny that the games are involved....but, do you see what I mean? She has to over emphasis it to make the point of their neglect.The fact that they'd have to be on the computers long enough *not* to fee the kids says to me this was some sort of addiction. So they played lots, but you go for food yourself right and then you feed the kids? They'd have to be locked somewhere for the kids not to make it known that they want food.I am on the side that this would have probably shown it's self somewhere else if it wasn't games. Maybe day-time TV, maybe something else. But the fact that Games are interactive means it would be harder to pull away from it. But to be that neglecting, they would have had to notice some sign of malnourishment, so they probably just didn't care. Who can say these kids weren't planned? Perhaps they escaped from the burden of parenthood by playing the games? I don't think there is enough evidence (give to us in the article at least, i.e daily routine etc.) to start blaming games or TV or anything else. In fact the article doesn't even seem to do that....exactly.Anyway that's my £5.23..far more than I thought I'd be giving....And its all just opinion and conjecture... so don't take what I've said as anything but me reading between the lines.</blockquote>

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