Comment Re:It's Called S.E.X (Score 1) 811
I think people should mind their own bloody business personally. It's not like he's poisoning his body with drugs or alcohol or hurting other people with his "addiction".
How to help a friend? Leave them the hell alone to live their life how they want and stop being so bloody pretentious in thinking this person needs to be "saved".
I'm pretty much on board with this perspective. At some point he's an adult and takes responsibilities for his own actions. He might look back years later and lament the lost time (and quite possibly a delayed education), but that will have been his choice. The potential to be doing other things doesn't mean that he'd be happier not doing what he is now.
If he was spending all his time shut away in his room reading books, this wouldn't be post-worthy, it'd just be someone with a reclusive personality. If he was out getting smashed at parties and getting laid all the time, it wouldn't be post-worthy either. Still, it's just as easy to look back with regret on a year of partying as it is a year of playing an MMO.
You're not saying the same thing that the guy you cite in your text, read what he writes more carefully.
Besides some poeple (a lot of them) don't get out of an addiction, you know it yourself since you said : "he might".
What if he never come out of it ?
Can you then be okay that you never helped him because he was "an adult".
Would you not regret to not have even have try to help a relative when you could ?
I think the way you think too individualist in my opinion, you should take some height and you'll see that alone, a human being don't do much. Our entire existence is defined by what we call people.
Would you be smart if nobody was there ?
Would you be strong if nobody was there ?
Does the actions you take even if you're the only responsible, cannot influence your environement ?
Why is there never any movies about a guy living completely alone on a desert island and being sane ?
Now the little sentence about happiness is quite funny. I mean everybody have his conception of hapiness, just remember that pedophile too have their own. My point ? Some opinion are just bullshit, sometimes it is hard to put it in word, it's more of a gut feeling, but yet it's bullshit. That doesn't mean that you have to say it or do something about it. However in this case spending that much time on a game cannot make you happy, you can feel good, you can like it but you're not happy.
That being said, I agree totally with the second part of what you said. Except the end, seriously man, who do you think lost more of his life, feels deep regrets and is more prepare to deal with the consequences : the one who got laid or the MMO player ?
I'm not saying that there are better addiction that other, just that there are more easier one to live than other.
