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Originally Posted by Sean Then if you really knew you wouldn't make the comparison.
You can't just stop using drugs. They physically destroy you, fuck up your brain, ect. They truely ruin lives.
MMO "addictions"? They're a joke. They're just about people who are crying about turning themselves into losers. They had control, they didn't use it. Nothing was physically forcing them to continue doing it and they can just stop. And the people who do stop and come to "realizations" are over it in a matter of fucking days or weeks.
So you didn't play with your friends and stopped drinking in clubs for a while. Boo fucking hoo. Drug abuse is permanent, developing a hobby where you don't "hang out" in the real world is not. |
That's a very good point. In a head to head contest between any of the drugs you mentioned and WoW, drugs would "win" every time.
Perhaps the issue is one of semantics? What I mean by this is that I don't agree with folks who claim the game itself is addictive. However I think it would be difficult to deny that some people exhibit addictive BEHAVIOR when playing the game.
Maybe to some that's a fine line to draw, but I think what you're saying has a lot of validity. Make the mistake of trying one of the things you mentioned and you can be completely debilitated. Self control goes out the window because the individual is physically prohibited from using it.
On the other side of that is simply addictive "behavior", i.e. nobody is forcing you to do something, but for whatever reason it is really, really difficult to stop. Compulsive eaters talk about how eating makes them happy, and studies show again that reward areas of the brain are triggerred by the act of eating. That doesn't mean this person's problem is the same as a drug addiction, because this person could stop any time... there is no physical limitation in place, they just crave the feeling. Perhaps this could apply to some people who lack self control when it comes to playing WoW?
