Melody I wouldnt worry too much about your son, he could be
doing much worse than playing games. I know he cant be too
bad because I know his parents are pretty cool people, and
that rubs off ya know.

Coberst, I'm not to sure what to think about your critical
thinking, and am wondering if your really throwing out these
ideals as a means to stimulate our thinking processes, or
trying to make everyone think your some kinda smart person.
I am not really impressed with $100 words. Anyone can spew
those out. What impresses me is someone that really does
have a god given gift of intelligence, and uses it to better
themselves and those around them instead of throwing out
meaningless subject matter.

I have read many books on this subject, and have come to the
conclusion it is all subjective. Anyone can read into this
anything they like, and come up with their own conclusions.
You seem to lean towards the idea that we as humans are
evil, or war like. Granted that may be true, but if you look
back into our recent past you will find we are much better
off in our evil ways today than any other time in history.

We do have our problems, but they could be related to the
fact that we dont have the diseases running amok and killing
2/3's of the population every few years. I mean there was
some population controls in our history that kept the
population fairly thin, not to mention the tyrants running
around killing everyone in sight for monetary gain.

If you dig even deeper into the human history you will find
that human civilization may have been more advanced way back
centuries ago. Then they wiped each other out in some kind
of nuclear war. Thus throwing technology away and regressing
back to hunter gatherers and the tribal mind set.
So it seems that we inherently have this propensity for
violence going back for what seems like forever.

For me the virtual gaming world is much better than the
painful reality I live in. I tried the drugs and was a
zombie that couldnt put 2 sentences together let alone
remember what I was thinking only a few minutes before. So I
choose to distract myself from the painful world, and have
some fun in a world where I can walk and run, and do things
that I cannot do in the real world.