Online Gaming and Adolescence || Acharya Prashant

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00:00There are these video games that are simulating those weapons to a fault.

00:05The sound when it is loaded, the sound when it is fired are exact simulations.

00:10And you are doing that all the time.

00:12Six hours a day you are playing that game, you are just firing that weapon.

00:15And then you are in a society like the states,

00:18where weapons are so readily available over the counter.

00:21Now what then stops you from trying out the real experience of firing at people?

00:28Obviously not everybody would do that.

00:29But even if one in 500 turns a maniac, the damage is just too much to bear, is it not?

00:37The mind needs to be subjected to right concepts.

00:41The mind needs to have a philosophical training.

00:44Expose it to the very genesis of thought itself.