Phendrana said:
I'd blame a lack of self control on yourself. I'm a firm believer in personal responsibility. There's no reason to blame something else for your own inability to control your actions. Even with the heroin thing, I'm sure there are people who can and have used it without becoming addicts. But to blame the drug because your actions led to an addiction is just looking for a way to shift responsibility off yourself. This isn't really targeted towards the posts that say the OP could become addicted since he very well could become addicted. It's towards people's overreaction to it. It's not an automatic addiction, and just because they or someone they knew couldn't play it responsibly, don't act like that's the game's fault. Sorry if it came off harsher than I intended. It just gets old hearing about the evils of Warcraft every time someone mentions buying it. @Bod, I'm not sure you understand my post (or I don't understand your post). I'm not comparing WoW to heroin. I just used that as an exaggeration to illustrate my point (people overreact about WoW). |
You know, we don't exist in a vacuum. If you want to argue that people that are obsessive-compulsive are choosing to be that way then fine. I wouldn't recommend that they start playing WoW to find out if they do have that condition. I don't know why you would even try to argue that the game isn't designed to get people hooked into playing, and to play as much as possible.
If you really believe that self control is a matter of choice it ignores the fact that decisions can be made without knowledge of the consequences. It would still be possible for a person with complete self control to make a bad decision based on imperfect knowledge. Or do you only do something when you have perfect knowledge of what the outcome will be?
@Bod - Pulling the Hitler card so soon? But seriously, can you personally compare someone who's ruined their life through playing WoW and a person who's ruined their life through substance abuse?
