Cities In India Ban 'PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' Over Fears It Turns Children Into 'Psychopaths' (yahoo.com)

Player Unknown's Battlegrounds is facing a "ferocious" backlash in India, Bloomberg reports: Nowhere has resistance to the game been quite like India. Multiple cities have banned PUBG, as it's known, and police in Western India arrested 10 university students for playing. The national child rights commission has recommended barring the game for its violent nature. One of India's largest Hindi newspapers declared PUBG an "epidemic" that turned children into "manorogi," or psychopaths. "There are dangerous consequences to this game," the Navbharat Times warned in a March 20 editorial. "Many children have lost their mental balance...."

What's different about India is the speed with which the country has landed in the strange digital world of no laws or morals. It skipped two decades of debate and adjustment, blowing into the modern gaming era in a matter of months. Rural communities that never had PCs or game consoles got smartphones in recent years -- and wireless service just became affordable for pretty much everyone after a price war last year. With half a billion internet users looking for entertainment, PUBG has set off a frenzy.
Over 250,000 students entered one recent PUBG competition, according to the article.

At least one local minister criticized the game as "the demon in every house."

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Re: Indians can afford to play it?

[Mashiki]

In India, we Hindus cherish peace of mind more than money

Well sure explains why they've been fleeing to Canada for the last ~50 years, for the explicit purpose of getting more money. And why we basically have a low-scale ethnic war in Brampton, Ontario between Indian Hindus and Pakistani Muslims, more so with the current crop of 2nd generation kids who are muslims who think that bashing some Hindu's on a Friday night is the height of fun. Which I'm sure makes plenty of sense, not so much over here. The funny thing is, money(wealth) can create an amazing amount of peace of mind. It can save your life, improve your standard of living, get more people away from hand-to-mouth starvation. My guess is, if Norman Borlaug hadn't decided to fix India's food crisis ~40 years ago, you wouldn't be here. That, is a great example of western wealth and western humanitarianism changing things for the better.

Have your big box dollar stores and mansions given you peace of mind? Have they now? I think not, seeing the aggression that typically spews from the western world.

Well yes. See, if you really want to look at "aggression of the western world" let me paint you a picture. Where we threw off the olde days of religion, then fought each other over trivial territorial issues, got bored of it, then decided that conquering the world had a nice ring to it. The irony of course is that despite your complaints over it, the fundamental impact of that western culture on India was so fundamentally transformative that you basically decided to shatter your society twice as hard with the existing caste system, and then piss up wind on the peons at the bottom daring to try crawling up from it to the point that the 'poorest' were the most likely to GTFO and become wealthy to escape the mess.

Simply, you should be glad that "western society" isn't say as aggressive as even 80 years ago. If it was, the stunt with the nuclear reactor and breaking treaties and in turn going nuke-hot would have led to a hot fast war.