Thailand Imposes Gamers Curfew

bg writes "How addicted can you be? According to this article, Thailand will install a curfew to "protect" their childern from the addiction from Gaming. "Game servers, both local and overseas, will be blocked from 10.00pm to 6.00am daily from July 15 to Sept 30, while Internet cafes will also have their hours curbed to those times". Under particular attack is Korean role-playing game Ragnarok, which was introduced to Thailand seven months ago."

Comments

Typical Myopic View by "Easterners"!!!

[ScottKin]

Obviously, you are not a "Westerner", so I'll have to do some education:

1) Recent laws were either passed or rescinded that allowed concenting people to engage in Sodomy - basically, it's the "What-goes-on-in-your-bedroom-is-your-business" attitude - in certain states. It had nothing to do with allowing homosexual people to exist. Your comment ("...recent orders permitting gays and lesbians...") sounded like the "West" didn't permit Homosexuals to exist.

2) Just because some people engage in stupid/insane/dangerous activities as part of their lifestyle doesn't make it the norm - it's just that those things get more press/media coverage because of the sensationalism angle.

I have 4 kids, and my wife and I have taught them how to judge the difference between right and wrong. They all have chores to do, they know that they're not permitted to watch R-rated movies and WHY they're not permitted to watch them. We teach our children by a simple addage: "Teach a child which way it should go, and it will not soon depart from that path". Parents have a sacred stewardship for their children, and any parent that is "permissive" and doesn't take the time to teach their children the clear-cut difference between right and wrong must be held responsible for what that child might do that is wrong. My kids don't take illicit drugs or drink alcohol, they don't swear, they don't sneak peeks at porn and they are very conscientious(sp) and considerate. They're not angels, but they know the difference between right and wrong, whereas "permissive" parents hardly give their children any direction or standards to uphold and they wonder why their 14-year-old is in Drug Rehab, their 16-year-old is pregnant and doesn't know who the father is, and their 12-year-old just killed the neighbor's cat by dowsing it with gasoline and setting it on fire.

As far as "Eastern" values and morality are concerned - Thailand, and Bangkok specifically, is guilty of being one of the largest Child Prostitution regions in the world. Government Censorship in Thailand is even a bigger joke than morals and responsibility in the Clinton Administration in the U.S.A. - they may say that they censor certain things in Thailand, but the government there nearly looks the other way when it comes to Child Prostitution. Per a UN Report, (http://www.hri.ca/fortherecord1997/documentation/ genassembly/a-52-482.htm), about 20% of the 150,000 to 200,000 prostitutes in Thailand are children. Child Prostitution is even worse, percentage-wise, in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, along with a quickly-growing Child Prostitution problem in Georgia (Eastern Europe). The sex trade in Japan is just as rampant as it has ever been, and the Japanese Government enacts useless laws to try to "manage" the sex industry instead of actually limiting it. "Eastern" values are a joke, because they try to make things look lovely and clean on the outside, while one looks deeper the depravety one finds in Eastern society's under-belly is more horrendous than anything found in the "West" - more magazines and films are made in Eastern countries that deal with bestiality, mutilation and other bizarre sexual practices (including "Snuff-films") than any other region in the world.

Eastern values brought Opium dens and drug abuse to America in the 1920's and hasn't stopped pumping the world with Heroin and other drugs (remember, Afghanistan is technically an EASTERN nation and has Opium as it's most profitable export).

Radical elements in Eastern relgions (Radical Islamic Jihadists) brought death to over 5,000 innocent people from many nations in New York on Sept. 11th, 2001. Radical Islamic Jihadists want an Islamic World - if needed, by force or extermination of "infidels".

So much for "Eastern" values.

ScottKin