User blog comment:CrazyBrick/Gaming freedom help./@comment-2038464-20110907124138

Here are some good points on why video games, particularly FPS games, aren't bad: a) Allows for friends who are constricted by distance to hang out in a relatively safe environment. b) Video games are many people's stress output, and helps them deal with they're frustration in a less destructive manner. c) It isn't the video games' fault for causing violence in youths, there have been many school shooters / youth homicides, that were set of by both film and music. Notably, a school shooter in America was actually influenced by the movie "Silence of the Lambs" which is more or less proof that the trigger for violent outbreaks are not purely the fault of violent video games. d) The Internet is just as safe as the real world, if not more so, while our real world is monitored and protected by the police, a video game is protected by the Game Masters to prevent emotional and verbal abuse over the Internet. e) Relaxation in any form is just as important as study. While the brain is designed to absorb knowledge, it is just as important to allow it to relax and not focus on things as strenuous as study. f) Video games are played by 70% of Americans, and 70% of Americans aren't violent psychopaths who love killing. g) If played with MODERATION first person shooters do allow for the increased development of the human body's rapid responses to stimuli, i.e reaction times, hand-eye-co-ordination, and the time for the fight-or-flight instinct to kick in, all of which are important skills for day to day activities, and the last one more for life-threatening emergencies.

I hope this helps.