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#2 No real correlation between video games and violence:
In the order prohibiting playing PUBG Mobile, the police commissioner of Rajkot City asserted that games were linked to violent traits that are shown to be increasing in the youth and children. “Due to these games, the education of children and youth are being affected and it affects the behavior, manners, speech, and development of the youth and children,” a rough translation of the order from Gujarati reads.
However, studies hint at no correlation between video games and an increase in aggression in adolescents. Most recently, in a February 2019 study by scientists from Oxford University, this theory was swatted away.
The study is supposed to be the most definitive one till date, despite the fact that it’s been popular to think that video games can cause aggression in teenagers. The study involved about 2,000 teenage subjects who played these so-called violent video games, and their parents, who were asked to rate their child’s recent aggressive behaviors.
And scientists concluded that not only was there no correlation between playing video games and aggressive behavior in teenagers, but past studies might also have been influenced by researcher bias.
#1 A matter for parental caution, not penal law:
In an ideal scenario, meeting up with friends to play a few video games together should end up in a fun campaign, some great dinner and conversation. What it shouldn’t do is land you in jail. Banning an entire game to ensure children don’t get their hands on them sounds absurd enough, but imagine being jailed for it too.
“ While large numbers of online gamers do congregate and spend long hours in front of their smartphones or gaming consoles much to the annoyance of their friends and family such assemblies are rarely unlawful. It would be a stretch to call such activities as threatening public order.”
Like IFF notes, it shouldn’t be called unlawful to get together and play online games, and it definitely shouldn’t qualify as a threat to public order.
On the other hand, parents must have full discretion to decide whether or not their ward should be exposed to any particular game if they happen to be minors. Adolescence has always been a time to be enamored by video games, TV shows, and even music that can take over your life.
But with all things at the age, the sheen eventually wears off and other distractions appear. That shouldn’t be a basis for banning or, even worse, arresting adults who choose to unwind with a game like this.
During a day and age where battle royale games like PUBG Mobile have professional competitions and eye-watering prize money and gamers involved, involving the law for regulation is bad form.
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