Video Games

Nowadays, the video games industry is developing rapidly. It becomes a multi-billion dollar industry. Video
games have become an important part not only in the children’ life, but also in the adults’ life. Nevertheless,
there is an argument whether video games bring good or bad influences on children.

People who have a pro argument claim that video games give a lot of benefits, playing video games is a good
way to kill children’s boredom. It can refresh the children’s mind after a tiring school day. Moreover, they
also argue that video games can trigger children to be more creative because the games provide challenging
ways to win. In other words, they believe that the video games can actually sharpen a human’s brain.

Conversely, some people believe that video games make children lazy. They argue that playing video games
is addictive. As a consequence, most of the children prefer playing video games to studying. These children
find it hard to concentrate on their study because they always think about how to spend more time playing
video games. In fact, there are also some children who skip their extracurricular lessons, just because they
want to play video games. In addition, most of the video games often expose too much violence. Two years
ago in the USA, for example, a student shot his teacher and some of his friends. Newspapers said that the
boy was deeply influenced by the actions in the video games he used to play with.

It is obvious that video games have more disadvantages than advantages. Therefore, parents should be very
careful in selecting the appropriate games for their children.

Internet
Nowadays Internet has spread massively in Indonesia. Internet in Indonesia is more easily accessible.
There are many benefits of the internet which can be taken, for example in the world of commerce,
online stores offer the ease of transaction. In education, teachers can easily exchange of information in
developing methods and learning strategies. But a lot of criminal acts are caused by the Internet. This
issue raises the pros and cons in public’s opinion. So how do they response to the use of the Internet
in Indonesia?

For those who support the Internet argue that Internet as a communication medium is most widely
used in the world. Internet users can communicate with other users from around the world using
social media like Facebook, twitter, path etc. In addition, the Internet is also a source of information
that is very unique, because we can get information on various topics from the Internet easily.

In education aspect, internet greatly assists teachers in developing methods and strategies for creative
learning. In addition, it also helps teachers to share with others and exchange information about
education. In commerce, it becomes the main asset in promoting a product (advertising), even now
online store grow rapidly and offer the ease of transaction.However, some people argue that the
internet presence is very disturbing their lives. They think the internet is the main cause of all the
problems which happen in this life. There are so many criminal cases occur today due to the internet.
For example, cases of sexual harassment are inspired by porn videos easily downloaded. Fraud case in
the world of online trading, online gambling and the spread of provocative news that does not fit with
the facts. And many more crimes caused by the Internet.

Internet presence is rich of benefits for human life. But the Internet cannot avoid from abusing which
leads to the rise of criminal acts. So, it all depends on where we want to use the benefit of it.

Pros and Cons of Smoking Bans

 Smoking ban policies are implemented in some American states and cities but the contentions on
whether they are necessary and relevant are still heard from supporters and critics. Restrictions on
cigarette smoking can be traced back as early the 16th century and up to now, this issue remains to
be controversial. To get an idea on how people are taking smoking bans, here are some of the views
expressed by proponents and opponents.

Advocates for smoking bans claim that passing a policy to prohibit smoking in public places can
lessen the possibility of second-hand smoke being inhaled by non-smokers. The supporters also say
that states and cities which have non-smoking policies and prohibited smoking in restaurants and
public indoor spaces have better indoor air quality then the cities which still allow smoking public.
With restricting smoking, supporters posit that it will decrease the waste since there will be lesser
cigarette butts and lesser toxic garbage that can be stuck in water systems. It is also believed by the
supporters that it can lessen the chance of influencing others to take on the habit.

For many smokers, smoking bans is one of the government’s ways of interfering in their lifestyle. They
find this offensive because they believe that, since smoking is not a crime, the government nor anyone
else should not have a say about what they do and limit their freedom. In principle, smoking bans
aren’t effective since they will make people just avoid places with smoking bans and smoke elsewhere
rather than to quit or at least to reduce their tobacco consumption. Implementing smoking bans also
can be very difficult. There are many people and even establishments that don’t respect the ban
mainly because the penalties aren’t so stiff and won’t get offenders into too much trouble.

These are just some of the pros and cons of smoking bans. Government officials, business owners, and
ordinary citizens should weigh them carefully to decide if smoking bans are worth implementing or
not.