Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Topic Possibilities

It's best to pick a topic relating to my major and the areas I want to go into, and it has to argue a point.

I'm thinking, Are game companies ethically liable when people claim to be addicted to their games? That can be cleaned up a bit but basically when the anti-social miscreant that is living in someone's basement kills himself can the video game company be blamed? Or can a spouse blame the game company for the failure of their marriage? Can parents hold the company responsible when their kid fails out of school for playing video games? I'm not talking about violence, that has been talked about, but the claim of addiction to video games.

I need to work on it but I think that will be my thesis, they are absolutely not responsible because, amoung other things, they charge for the game, if you want to 'quit' either cancel your subscription or sell the game back. That doesn't work for all games but it is a huge factor.

I've still got all of the sources from the last paper, some of them will most likely apply this time.

I'm going to go narrow that down a bit.

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