MMO Gaming Kills Again

You guys seem keeping to forget that a 13-year-old boy is not a responsible adult. Probably not even happy that his mom isn't normal. Like the article mentioned, it happened all the time.
Would you even be able to tell if your mom just fell asleep on the floor from medication or if she took a hard blow to the head while doing so? I think your analysis of the situation would be the same in both cases either way.

Some humans are scumbags, some don't care and some are just plain assh*les...

The kid falls in between of these for his ignorance...

But he's a 13-year-old kid undergoing 'that' faze of his life...

Hell, I was a rebellious piece of sh*t when I was 12 until 16 where I learned to use my head and be more aware of others after a very god awful event that I do not wish to speak of...

My point is, yes he's at fault...But not fully because let's take into account his age and the fact that his mother has a mental illness...

Nobody said a 13 year old boy is a responsible adult. However, he is old enough to call for help. Unless he's mentally challenged also. I don't care if it happened all the time. A simple glance at the situation would have saved the mother's life.

Look at the facts.
"5 metres" - That's 16 feet away. Chances are that any blow to the head that close, would've been heard.
"even though she was in the same room as him"
"He continued playing even as his mother succumbed to her injuries, expiring soon after."

So she didn't die instantly. She slowly died to her injuries while in the same room as the boy. During all the time in between her fall and death, the child did not leave his computer.

If you're asking me those questions, my answers are as cliche as they come. Mostly because I believe that anyone with any amount of decency would do the same. I would check on my mother if she had suddenly collapsed. Especially if she is mentally ill.

This isn't about a MMO killing somebody. It's about a child who has his priorities in the wrong places.

And that explains it then...

His mother had a mental illness while he too had a different kind of mental illness...He's an MMO addict...

Addiction is considered a mental illness of a different sort from the regular ones since you become addicted to a certain object/activity to the point you don't give a sh*t about anything else happening around you or even your own health...

Well, either way...It won't change anything being the mother is now dead and to the eyes of the world, MMO is to blame...

One can guess the world is guilty of ignorance if they don't dig for the truth and just follow what the media says about MMO's....

There's nothing wrong with MMO's/games...It's the people playing them...

You can say they got 'corrupted' because of their weak-mindedness and fragile will to control themselves...

Thus, leading to tragic situations like these...

I would hope he felt remorse at the loss of his mother. But just from these facts alone, I doubt he actually cared. That's my opinion though.

Perhaps I'm being too harsh. But come on, 5 metres away? Headphones or not, he clearly heard the sound of her fall and decided his video game was more important.

I'm certain that a 13 year old child is able to use the phone in case of an emergency or even run to a neighbor for help.

Addiction kills. If he weren't so fixated on what he was doing he could have saved his mom. But the fact that it was an MMO doesn't really matter.

Well you must be dumb. How can you get addicted to a video game, there is NO chemical introduced to you system. Well endorphins but you get that from alot of things, like sports.

So NO you can't be addictive to video games. EVER, its just an excuse made by parents.

"YES you can"

If you could hook up a PET scan of a persons brain while they are playing video games, it would become very apparent what parts of the brain are being stimulated and the extent of that stimulation. The amount of brain chemicals being released is staggering. Since the neurotransmitters are more powerful than street drugs, the mood change can be very dramatic.

Much like gambling addictions the person is stimulated by the action occurring.

You’re not very smart are you? Learn human psychology first, then post. You think a chemical needs to be introduced to addict someone? Ever heard of OCD? Trichotillomania? Cutting?

It doesn’t take a chemical introduced to addict people to something it’s just as addicting to become addicted to the behavior and the feelings it produces. Gaming addiction is just as bad and as hard to quit as any other addiction and maybe even more insidious since some people aren’t smart enough to see or know the signs of addiction. People can be addicted to sports too, if you didn’t notice. To the point of destroying their bodies. Look it up. Same with eating disorders.

anon @ 00:14 20/06/2010 is 100% RETARDED!

Operant anc classical conditioning mofo!! With adrenaline, dopamine, and serotonin as rewards.

"the MMO was just in the room when it happened"

Oh man, good one.

No, it would be more like saying that she was killed because her son was cleaning a gun on the other side of the room. And if you hit your head on something, it may not make much of a noise. Say she fell backward and hit her neck. That can kill you almost instantly, and be nearly silent. And then you rustle as you fall the rest of the way to the ground...

There are some *really* weird ads showing up in the left side column....

It's also extremely silly to blame an mmo for what happened. Do people think he would have heard it if he was playing in the woods, like I did at that age?

So your saying that if your with someone on a room and that person suddenly fell, even if your playing something on the computer, you would not felt/heard/saw it? if no then your senses plainly sucks if you ask me. its bad enough that the kid said that he had let his mother sleep on the floor before and its clear that on those occasions he ignored her instead of helping her. If he had bother to check on her maybe, and that's a big maybe seeing she hit her head, she could have survive. Instead he felt that leveling up was more important at the moment.

@ SA 16:43 :

I'm not defending the kid, but I gotta say... I've got noisy upstairs neighbors. They stomp around, they play loud music, and I have no problem falling asleep and staying asleep with all that going on.

You bought your son a pc and he left you there to die playing on it. Now who is the mentally ill one?

He could have had headphones on... or she could have knocked something over before and he thought it happened again... either way I'm not making him look better just giving possibilities.

Apples and Oranges. Alcohol and drugs have a physical effect on the body that leads to addiction.

Gaming may provide a small adrenaline rush to people, but nothing that can really become anymore addictive than playing sports. In the end, it's all about lack of moderation and self control.

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