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Video Game Addicted Lawyer Suspended From Practicing Law


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A Pennsylvania lawyer in his 40s has been suspended from his profession for three years after he spectacularly failed to perform his duties. This was the Disciplinary Board’s decision after Matthew Eshelman confessed that video game addiction was at fault. It seems Atty. Matthew Eshelman used to work for another firm, then left that job when his gaming undermined his work. Shortly after establishing his own practice, the video game addiction stuck, with disastrous results.

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This is actually sad news and no doubt a moment of extreme personal crisis for the person involved. Hopefully he has the fortitude to find a balance in life. It’s also indicative of a worrying trend in an otherwise beautiful industry. There’s no other way you can describe videogames these days: they are beautiful. The problem is, unlike books or film or opera music, they tend to preoccupy the overstimulated modern-age workers that comprise our global consumer society.

You don’t hear of people getting fired from their jobs because of listening to too much classical music, right? If only video games can finally attain that plateau—becoming a worthwhile diversion that’s more the object of pleasure than an engaging activity that’s frowned upon.

Should this incident herald the inception of Gamers Anonymous (GA)?

Source Philly

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  • Mostly because classical music is meant for the stage and they don’t play all the time. The access to games is easier and cheaper these days so more people can play games whether at home in front of a TV or PC or at work on the toilet with their smart phones.

    The idea of it being addictive isn’t really an issue. It is self control. If you grew up only with books, you’d spend days reading books and the amount could add the same as one who grew up with games. It is simply that people still view gaming as a bad thing. Maybe the word bad could be something different,  but it is this case that you will always get reports of games being racist or violent, influencing people to behave in different way or maybe affecting their life socially or at work just as TV and music has had before.
    Everything will get this kind of view you just have to judge it for yourself and understand that all of these art forms are essential. I think we’d all kill ourselves if we didn’t have art, music, tv, games and so on.