Philosophy Journal #3

Today in class we briefly touched upon the issue of what types of games the guardians should play as children. This issue seems important to the proper development of a well balanced reasoning person. Play in the life of a child seems really important because of the neccessity of learning 'rules'. So often in today's school systems children are told that they are pretty much perfect no matter what they do. And that everyone is equal.

Play on the playgrounds of school actually teach some very important social ideas. The need for rules in a game becomes necessary to keep those kids that would cheat to win a game. Rules are followed because they teach the lessons of life. Everything in society runs on rules because that is how everyone keeps a level playing field. If everyone knows the rules then everone has a equal chance to succeed within the confines of those rules.

Thinking about what games are not condusive to the development I realized that the most popular games of the past couple years. Have been the Grand Theft Auto series. The reason that these games are so popular are because they allow a person to disobey all the rules of society. You can steal, murder, and drive any way that you want to on that little digital replica of a city. The point of the game is to elude the police and escape the consequences of any rules whatsoever.

This game is probably the best example of the worst game for a child to play while he is developing his character.