Stop Wasting Your Time

[mountaindewslave]

Esiar said:

sundin13 said:

42?

Also, I've gotten plenty of happiness out of video games. Playing them and discussing them. Maybe games just aren't for you...

Finally, your last point is terrible. The absence of helping people is not hurting anyone first of all. Second of all, I put my own mental well being pretty high on my priority list. I think I have a pretty eclectic range of hobbies, each of which I have spend a pretty good deal of money on. I play guitar. Is that hurting people because I could have been feeding the homeless? nope. I play drums. Is that hurting people because I could have been batman? Nope. I play video games, listen to music, watch tv, watch movies, watch anime, cook, write etc.. Should I throw myself away to become a slave to the whims of others? No............because that is stupid. Very stupid.

Video games are no more a waste of time and money than any other hobby, and last time I checked, hobbies were quite beneficial to becoming a well rounded individual and me not killing myself.

The lack of helping people does hurt people. How can you say that the absence of helping homeless people does not negatively affect homeless people? You are choosing not to help them, clearly. This clearly affects them. You're putting your own hobbies over them. You know there are starving people. At times you buy games instead of looking for these people and helping them. This hurts them. I understand that you clearly need to provide for your own needs, but other's needs should be put above your own.

In terms of suicide, video games are only surpressing it. It doesn't fix the problem (and the problem is fixable). It can be compared to treating a symptom rather than the actual sickness.

my god you truly do lack an understanding for logic

the absense of acting does not hurt or help or a group of people unless you are already part of a situation including them. a homeless person is homeless- staying home and not helping out at the homeless shelter does not in fact effect said homeless person at all. the status quo remains the same.

helping them obviously would have an effect, but trying to insinuate that a person should feel guilty for not spending all of their free time outside of work and school with charity is just absurd

and again it's a purely subjective thing. YOU think that's what people should do. maybe you're saying it because you feel guilty yourself about not doing it enough (most likely that is the case)

In the end you keep bringing up your own personal viewpoints and judgements, regardless of how they formed or what motivated them, they are yours and yours alone at least specifically and to each point. and no- 'others needs should be put above your own' is nonsense in general. A person is incapable of helping others in the first place if they do not maintain their own bridge of life so they can operate. That is in line with insinuating that a person barely coping with the bills should go to the grocery store, buy this weeks food, and then donate it to the homeless rather than feed themselves. sorry but that's not how the world works, someone shouldn't automatically sacrafice themselves for a perfect stranger they know nothing about

video games and the rate of suicide are not connected at all, stop talking nonsense please