Essay On Video Game Addiction

The word "addiction" is defined in a different variety of ways, but the general definition of such refers to a compulsive drive to engage in some activity or substance that is clearly harmful to our bodies. Within the Washington Post article, "Video-game addiction a real problem, study finds" written by Donna St. George, and the report, "Online Game Playing Is not Addictive," by Peter Gray, the argument about dangers of video games are discussed, as well as their consideration about the level of addiction video games can create. Within these two sources, the levels of addiction video games create is not significant, magnifying that it is wrong to assume someone 's interest in video games as an addiction. The two sources prove the absence of addiction since there would be …show more content…
One who finds video games as an addiction, and feel as if children are "pathological" gamers should have conclusive evidence to support their claim, in order to prove video games are the cause creating addiction. In the Washington Post article, it states, "[g]amers were deemed "pathological" if they reported at least six of the 11 symptoms" in which some symptoms included were "increasing amounts of time and money on video game" as well as "lying about the length of playing time" concluding that children who were deemed pathological "did worse in school, and had trouble paying attention in class" (St. George, par. 3, par. 4, par. 6). These symptoms cannot be justified to support video game addiction, because children lie all the time, including more topics than just video games. The truth is that children are afraid of getting in trouble, and are too immature to face the truth. They lie about simple things as well as playing video games, yet these people concluding that they are pathological single out video games. If one buys coffee or some form of drink and enjoys it with sugar, they must