Why so serious?

When watching the film, I can't help thinking of 'Clockwork Orange', I don't know why, maybe they both concern about teenagers' psychiology and affect the teens' behavior. Especially when I saw those gamers so addicted to the game and just like the main character in ' Clocjwork Orange' drinking the evil milk and commiting all the terrible cirmes. It's very interesting to see the traces of changes in teens' interests.

I would like to start with the pros of playing videogames which also been talked about a lot in the film. First, for individuals, it can help children to fight against diseases. Let's not forget that videogames has plenty of forms, and not all of them are devils. Remember the game played by a young patient, it's supported by the hospital. The game let players to be a kind of medicine of human form, players choose patients, and then go into their bodies and kill the virus. It actually can help the patients to know their diseases better, and by giving positive implies, it can in fact help cure the diseases. Another example is the AA(American Army). The military force in U.S. paid to develop this game in order to attract young people serve for the army when they grow up. I found it very creative and brave to do so, and the effect is good. There are also cons. Just like the movie, some kids very addicted to the violence in the games and applied it to the reality, like robbory and classroom shootings.

In the film, the director tell stories about teens commiting crime in reality, probably affected by the violent games. It's anti-social, and also parents and adults seems to worry about their increasing aggressive. I can't agree with this. I mean nowadays there are plenty of ways through which teens can know about violence and other dangerous thoughts, we can't protect them in a total pure environment, so we just need to guide them and help them to tell digital world from reality.

I really don't think that gevernment should have the right to ban videogames. Because we people can't destroy anything we think inappropriate, that would be horrible. We certainly should avoid bad morals, but we need to have the choice, not meaning that we should do, but we have to choose on our own, not by obedience. Another reason is because actually these games have some positive effects. Such as it can help to release our stress and anger as well as other negative emotions, and it can use to bulid connections between teens and country, like AA.

In my own experience in playing CS, I found that we're actually not so concerned about the blood, because we know clearly it's a game. What we want to achieve is to have fun with friends. We always make jokes on each other in reality when we are shooting at each other in the game. And who did most headshots are respected, only because of one's skill.

So in general, Why so serious?