[PIGMI] R18 Classification Review

[Liam Jones]

"Fitness, skill development and teamwork"

I think that it could be argued that gaming develops two of those three.

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From: "George" <gt at crunchyfrog.com.au>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 5:11 PM
To: <pigmi at pigmi.org>
Subject: Re: [PIGMI] R18 Classification Review

> A very good question Jack.
> 
> Is it because sports have more obvious positives to them, such as 
> fitness, skill development and teamwork, whereas playing a game has less 
> obvious or immediate positive benefit, other than simply being 
> entertaining...?
> 
> I think it was Penn & Teller that did an excellent comparison of the 
> actual likelihood of your kids being injured as a result of competitive 
> sport vs playing video games. No prizes for guessing which one was the 
> more dangerous activity :)
> 
> 
> On 1/12/2010 3:29 PM, Jack Casey wrote:
>> Why doesn't someone do a comparison of violent behaviour of young 
>> adult video gamers vs young adult AFL players?
>> I don't get why people are trying to prove or disprove that playing a 
>> violent game might make you more hyped up and violent for the next 
>> hour (duh). When it surely also happens with most any other 
>> competitive activity (let's say, paintball?) and no one has any 
>> problem with those?
> 
> 
> -- 
>   George
> 
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