The issue with both is that they take feelings of boredom (i.e. motivation to do something new) and trick your brain into releasing neurotransmitters so you don’t feel bored anymore, despite not necessarily doing anything new
The benefit of both is that they can elicit new experiences and new mental connections (aka creative thoughts) through these new experiences
But they can also both be abused, as described above - do you think “exercising” your brain with 8 hours of counter-strike every day provides any tangible benefit? Obviously not, so it’s clearly not quite as simple as you’re making it out to be.
There are no circumstances when consuming pot is good. It always damages the brain. Every pot smoker I have ever met has been the dregs of society. Whether it's the antifa tattoo "artist" that my best friend married and eventually divorced (Thank god), or the redneck bums that lived in trailers in rural Georgia and ranted about republicans, they have all been poor nobodies. That is not so with gamers.
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But playing video games isn’t harmful in the same exact ways?
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Pot kills your brain. Games exercise it.
The issue with both is that they take feelings of boredom (i.e. motivation to do something new) and trick your brain into releasing neurotransmitters so you don’t feel bored anymore, despite not necessarily doing anything new
The benefit of both is that they can elicit new experiences and new mental connections (aka creative thoughts) through these new experiences
But they can also both be abused, as described above - do you think “exercising” your brain with 8 hours of counter-strike every day provides any tangible benefit? Obviously not, so it’s clearly not quite as simple as you’re making it out to be.
There are no circumstances when consuming pot is good. It always damages the brain. Every pot smoker I have ever met has been the dregs of society. Whether it's the antifa tattoo "artist" that my best friend married and eventually divorced (Thank god), or the redneck bums that lived in trailers in rural Georgia and ranted about republicans, they have all been poor nobodies. That is not so with gamers.