>you're mostly arguing against a straw man, so i won't address those points, but there are still some interesting things you're wrong about.
So you're going to ignore basically my entire point.
This:
>other animal species use play as a way to simulate potentially dangerous scenarios in order to learn certain behaviors.
Carries much stronger implications than--to paraphrase your new argument--video games can be used as an advertising medium. It may not have been your intention, but your first argument is the same argument that pundits use to argue that video games "train people to be killers."
Even assuming that wasn't your intent, that animals use play to train for for combat is completely unrelated to a person on TV telling children to ask their parents for something. That's just a human using their persuasive abilities, it has nothing to do with simulated combat.
So you're going to ignore basically my entire point.
This:
>other animal species use play as a way to simulate potentially dangerous scenarios in order to learn certain behaviors.
Carries much stronger implications than--to paraphrase your new argument--video games can be used as an advertising medium. It may not have been your intention, but your first argument is the same argument that pundits use to argue that video games "train people to be killers."
Even assuming that wasn't your intent, that animals use play to train for for combat is completely unrelated to a person on TV telling children to ask their parents for something. That's just a human using their persuasive abilities, it has nothing to do with simulated combat.