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정다연
2019.06.13 00:43
1526 정다연:I respect your opinion, but the case of Oxford is just minority. In most research, game addiction causes a lot of mental diseases such as ADHD that make people aggressive. Also game addiction matches well to the definition of illness. The definition of illness is in abnormal condition by physical and mental diseases. People addicted to the game are in this condition by excessive playing game. For these reasons, I think game addiction should be categorized to disease.
전하은
2019.06.14 20:41
정다연 :
[1525 전하은]I see your point of view in categorizing game addiction as a disease, but I do not agree with you. You said that mental diseases like ADHD are caused by game addiction and makes people aggressive. However, as you can see from the word ADHD(attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), the symptom of ADHD is being disable to concentrate, not being aggressive. Also, ADHD is generally caused by heredity, which means that your contention that game addiction causes ADHD is unfounded. These reasons are why I contradict to your assertion.
장혜원
2019.06.14 20:27
1821 장혜원)Your arguement has a point, however I think that there is a difference between game addicted person and pro gamer. From the researchers of WHO, they have been able to find out that pro gamers' brainwaves show the use of intellectual abilities, such as making strategies, during gaming while the game addicted person shows the specific brainwaves which occurs when doing a repetitive behavior. Also, people's health should be in precedence over financial damages. These are the reasons why I think that game addiction should be classified as disease.
전하은
2019.06.14 21:56
장혜원 :
[1525 전하은]Though I acknowledge your opinion in some points, I have some doubts about the research you found. It says that there are differences in the degree of brain activation between game addicts and professional gamers. And also the thesis is about that game addicts had weak activations of the whole brain, while professional gamers had strong activations of part of the brain. From this research, it is certain that there is a distinction between game addicts' brain and pro-gamer's. However the problem is that we cannot know why game addicts use the entire brain if they have problems using the brain, and how it is possible for professional gamers to use parts of the brain during playing games if they are not addicted to games. If you have any indisputable answer for these two questions, please write down to convince me. I will be waiting for your reply.
장혜원
2019.06.23 20:43
전하은 :
1821장혜원 What I mean about the difference between game addicted person and pro gamer is not the degree of brain activation but the difference in brainwaves emitting while they play gaming. The kind of brainwave can reflect the kind of brain activity. My understanding is that pro gamer uses the brain more likely for intellectual reasoning such as making strategies but rather game addiced person uses the brain for simple and repetitive activity. Therefore we can differentiate game addiction from pro gaming. Another characteristics of game addiced persons will be if they can control the desire to play. Pro gamer will surely maintain this control ability. If pro gamer loses this ability, he/she will not be pro gamer any more. So, I argue that game addiction differently from pro gaming needs to be classified as a disease.
전하은
2019.06.28 15:16
장혜원 :
[1525 전하은]I see what you are saying about this subject and would admit that I had a skewed cognizance arose from a misunderstanding of your arguement. I, however, have known various kinds of pro-gamers and some of them are expert in playing simple and repetitive games. Opinionally, these type of pro-gamers could be classified as a game addicts if I embrace your contention that we can distinguish game addicts from pro-gamers by their brainwaves. Quote unquote, considering your opinion, pro-gamers who are specialized in those unsophisticated games would use their brain for simple and repetitive activities. It can be concluded that we cannot call them a pro-gamer now since they have the same use of brainwaves like the game addicts. For this expected undesirable consequence by accepting your criterion to differentiate game addiction from pro-gaming, I insist that game addiction should not be classified as a illness.
이정진
2019.06.28 01:08
1520 이정진 - I think there's a problem with your rationale. you said categorizing the game addiction as a disease would lead to a serious financial damage in the Korean game industries. but this is not a matter to talk about with money. It is serious disease. also You suggested relationship between violence and playing games has not been verified. but there is many proven actual incident. for example a teen addict stabbed his sister several times with a knife. Therefore, Game addiction should be classified as a disease.
전하은
2019.06.28 14:29
이정진 :
[1525전하은]Although your approach in this controversial issue makes sense, it has some contrarieties. You cited an example of a teen addict's crime, but we cannot know if the assailant did his or her delinquency by being addicted to games. Also, I think your insistence that this issue is not a matter to talk about with money is lack of specific reasons. In addition, you wrote about opposize dissertations which did not included its source. I would like to wait for your supplemented opinion.
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