Cub Scouts To Offer Merit Pin For Video Gaming

Hugh Pickens writes "Fox News reports that the Boy Scouts of America — a group founded on the principles of building character and improving physical fitness — have introduced merit pins for academic achievement in video gaming, a move that has child health experts atwitter. 'It could be quite visionary and exciting or it could be a complete sellout,' says Dr. Vic Strasburger. 'I don't see anything wrong with that as long as they're not playing first-person shooter games, violent games, games with a lot of sexual or drug content. The question is, who's going to supervise the scouts?' Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts can earn their pins by spending an hour a day playing games, teaching others how to play better, and researching the best price for games they'd like to buy."

Comments

Re:Why the censure?

[fuzzix]

I don't see anything wrong with that as long as they're not playing first-person shooter games, violent games, games with a lot of sexual or drug content.

Stop the censure! I grew up with duke nukem and it had no bad consequences.

And I'm all out of gum!

I want the badge to be a silhouette of Nico Bellic (or one of his counterparts from another GTA game) whacking someone by the river bank... or maybe a montage of three Nicos:

- Battering a hooker
- Doing a line
- Riverside execution

All in a day's work^Wplay.

Re:No first person shooters?

[Mr. Freeman]

You just contradicted yourself there. "He didn't say that games made people psychopaths, he just said that they make you enjoy killing people". That's the fucking definition of a psychopath.