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1.- Actually don't, it is a drug and in case it makes the person unable to have proper social interactions, a healthy lifestyle and/or care for their mental health in general. Then again caffeine addicts exist and caffeine is an actual drug. Legalized or Illegal doesn't change the fact that they are drugs and prolonged, out of control and socially endanring drugs can be both legal and illegal. It doesn't matter if its videogames, trans-fat or cocaine, addiction acts the same on the social behavior of the person and it's brain functions.
And do you go around calling Starbucks a drug dealer then?

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You are just supporting a passive form of suicide.
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Specially the point about NEETs, need more info, check the documental "Love Child" for example, a clear documentary on the pandemic that is videogame addiction in South Korea and by extension countries like japan and other developing countries.
And my grade thesis was a bit about psychology of gamers in relationship with learning processes and yes, found a lot of evidence for a subportion of the subjects (NEETs mostly) which presented several psychological disorders that were only reinforced by their exposition to videogames, MMORPGs and MMOs in general being the most recurrent "drug".
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2.- You are making the grave mistake of confusing any lifestyle with a healthy lifestyle. You might fool yourself to think that being morbidly obese or spend all your life in a room playing video games is a HEALTHY lifestyle, it isn't. Period.
You are moving the goalposts here. Not living a healthy lifestyle and "passive suicide" are not remotely the same thing. I'm sure me being a non-vegetarian is not as healthy a lifestyle as a vegetarian, but if you were to call eating meat "passive suicide" then that would be ridiculous hyperbole. No one needs to be shamed for not living a "healthy lifestyle", especially if it compromises a person's happiness. Implying that NEETs are unhealthy junkies is extremely disrespectful and it appears to be me that you are doing video game addicts more harm than good with your excessive exaggerations and personal bias'.

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But you cannot justify social/reality escapism, let alone when that escapism is something that is supporting said unhealthy society in the first place (operational conditioning for mass consumption of goods and media - Videogame addicts.)
I can and I will. Escapism is not a crime, it is not morally wrong, and it is not for you to decide that it can or cannot be supported. It's your subjective opinion that society is unhealthy.


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Im talking about teenagers or NEET adults that can spend well over +10 hours daily. That is particularly unhealthy for people with already diagnosed psychological or psychiatric sickness. Last thing you want a person with depression do is to spend his whole life in a room watching a monitor not interacting with anyone.
No, the last thing you want to happen to a person with depression is to take what little happiness they have away from them. What's paramount to a person with depression is happiness, not health.