This is absurd. There is nothing wrong with competitiveness, and the majority of people who play competitive video games are not suffering from it. Sure, there’s always griefers who win at all costs and enjoy humiliating weaker players, but nobody wants to play with people like that.
There is a joy in striving against an equal opponent that cannot be found in anything purely cooperative, and which is not intrinsically harmful in the slightest. In fact, the urge to seek social status, which you denigrate as something horrible, is probably the only reason humans intensely care about anything other than survival and reproduction in the first place.
There’s also nothing wrong with “primal urges”. They are not intrinsically destructive—they are only destructive if indulged in the physical world. I often envision future VR sports, or even warfare, where people experience intense “physical” competition in a virtual world, perhaps even including artificial pain sensations etc, but then return to their bodies and are safe and sound. I think it would be fun. Note also that sex is a primal urge, and it too can be dangerous due to sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies—are you against it too?
This is absurd. There is nothing wrong with competitiveness, and the majority of people who play competitive video games are not suffering from it. Sure, there’s always griefers who win at all costs and enjoy humiliating weaker players, but nobody wants to play with people like that.
There is a joy in striving against an equal opponent that cannot be found in anything purely cooperative, and which is not intrinsically harmful in the slightest. In fact, the urge to seek social status, which you denigrate as something horrible, is probably the only reason humans intensely care about anything other than survival and reproduction in the first place.
There’s also nothing wrong with “primal urges”. They are not intrinsically destructive—they are only destructive if indulged in the physical world. I often envision future VR sports, or even warfare, where people experience intense “physical” competition in a virtual world, perhaps even including artificial pain sensations etc, but then return to their bodies and are safe and sound. I think it would be fun. Note also that sex is a primal urge, and it too can be dangerous due to sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies—are you against it too?
What drove you to write this reply?
The same thing that drove you to write yours.