I'd rather be busy living, lol, but I still enjoy them once in a while. I simply don't have time to play much of anything, which I prefer. I'd honestly find a game like Sims to be more realistic than anything else I play, and has much more real-life-like consequences, like having your kids taken away when you neglect them. I think trying to discuss it can make it quite complex, but I think most people who are paying attention to how everything they do affects them, know the truth for It would be interesting to know if there are studies that separate out (just for curiosity sake) games that are so realistic like Call of Duty (never play those types of games, or shooting games in general at all) or things like Mario where nothing in the game resembles real life. Often times we don't even control the thoughts that come, we only control what we give action and a voice to. If you play video games, and put yourself into a rage and yell at or even hurt people as a result, or use them to fuel already-existing rage, that's a mental health issue that needs addressing, IMO. There is no real life impact, and to me, it only makes sense when that is the result. I don't think stepping on a Goomba in Mario is going to get me any type of karma compared to catching and releasing flies and spiders from my house. In the sense that thought leads to action, yes. I believe in karma, in some senses anyways, but not in the sense that thought alone, with no real life intention or action behind it, has karmic power. That's like saying poking a puddle with a stick kills the puddle. You just make pixels move around and take different forms. You aren't killing a person, you aren't killing anything. what's your opinion? Do you even believe in karma? All of which is besides the fact that greed and treasure are big motives in most games.Ĭertainly food for though. You may be very "into the game" or you may be very detached and treat it as just pixels. You may be killing non-player creatures in the game, things that look non-human, or you may be killing very accurately displayed characters representing actual human players. You are actually killing your on screen opponent, albeit by pushing a button rather than hewing him in twain with a broadsword as our distant ancestors might have done.įrom that standpoint, computer games are going to generate between a little and quite a lot of negative karma.
Now it occurs to me that computer games generate pretty intense thoughts and emotions, and so may well generate karma, but they also include actions. In my recent course of basic Buddhist concepts at the local Tibetan centre (Gelug), the monk was explaining karma and he said, "even intense thoughts can leave a karmic imprint".
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