I may have felt obligated to post it because I myself game. I was trying to to think of anything I could think of that seemed to related to the concept “Do Videogames devour life’s potential?” And I wouldn’t want to discard something which may indicate the conclusion that I should abandon my hobby even if it seemed like it might be irrelevant because that would be a source of bias.
Although, that is probably simply a rationalization. My ACTUAL thought process was probably something like “I have been typing this post for an hour and I need to get back to work. I don’t want to save it on Google Docs as a Cached post and not get back to it, because I already have an enormous number of partial thoughts backlogged there, some from years ago. I’ll just post what I have at the moment and stop thinking about it.”
Similarly, my response to you would be “Yes, I would probably agree with you, but I’m worried I would simply be agreeing with you because that’s what I WANT to think.” Because I prefer a convenient world in which my hobby doesn’t cause deaths that I have to care about.
But, that doesn’t let me off the hook either. Just because I have biases which would lead me to believe that it is irrelevant, doesn’t actually mean I can simply bring it up as relevant and think “And now I’m NOT being biased.” That actually doesn’t work at all and is still too convenient.
I could start a side conservation about how many deaths something would have to have to be relevant, but that seems odd because it’s really past the scope of the original topic and I nominally agree with you, so it would just be arguing for the sake of arguing as opposed to actually trying to prove a point.
Although, this entire conversation, taking one step back, could be an indicator that I’m entirely to self conscious and wordy for what are one line comments and I don’t need to write books on every answer. Certainly my Wife has pointed out similar flaws in my speech style.
Regardless of any of that, thank you for your thought provoking critique.
If it helps you calibrate at all, I used to play a lot of games, consider them to be a massive waste of time, and have elsewhere on this thread argued that they are a massive waste. And I still think the deaths are so rare at to be irrelevant. So I don’t think you need to worry about biases in this context impacting your judgement if I’m reading you correctly.
I may have felt obligated to post it because I myself game. I was trying to to think of anything I could think of that seemed to related to the concept “Do Videogames devour life’s potential?” And I wouldn’t want to discard something which may indicate the conclusion that I should abandon my hobby even if it seemed like it might be irrelevant because that would be a source of bias.
Although, that is probably simply a rationalization. My ACTUAL thought process was probably something like “I have been typing this post for an hour and I need to get back to work. I don’t want to save it on Google Docs as a Cached post and not get back to it, because I already have an enormous number of partial thoughts backlogged there, some from years ago. I’ll just post what I have at the moment and stop thinking about it.”
Similarly, my response to you would be “Yes, I would probably agree with you, but I’m worried I would simply be agreeing with you because that’s what I WANT to think.” Because I prefer a convenient world in which my hobby doesn’t cause deaths that I have to care about.
But, that doesn’t let me off the hook either. Just because I have biases which would lead me to believe that it is irrelevant, doesn’t actually mean I can simply bring it up as relevant and think “And now I’m NOT being biased.” That actually doesn’t work at all and is still too convenient.
I could start a side conservation about how many deaths something would have to have to be relevant, but that seems odd because it’s really past the scope of the original topic and I nominally agree with you, so it would just be arguing for the sake of arguing as opposed to actually trying to prove a point.
Although, this entire conversation, taking one step back, could be an indicator that I’m entirely to self conscious and wordy for what are one line comments and I don’t need to write books on every answer. Certainly my Wife has pointed out similar flaws in my speech style.
Regardless of any of that, thank you for your thought provoking critique.
If it helps you calibrate at all, I used to play a lot of games, consider them to be a massive waste of time, and have elsewhere on this thread argued that they are a massive waste. And I still think the deaths are so rare at to be irrelevant. So I don’t think you need to worry about biases in this context impacting your judgement if I’m reading you correctly.