Hmm.. yes, she lacks information. But let's judge her statement by its own merits, shall we?
She made a rather blanket statement saying that video games are part of the problems surrounding children these days. I agree to a point. Unfortunately, the other part is social rejection. Children play video games instead of being outside playing because as someone else said earlier; playing by yourself is really BORING. If a child has no friends in their neighborhood because the other brats are too busy ostracizing him/her because of what they look like or how they act, then of course they're going to shut themselves up in their rooms with Xbox 360 or PS3 to gain some semblence of interaction away from family. I had very few friends growing up (the ones I did have were all avid gamers) so yes, I spent my days playing whatever manner of game I could inside.
The other end of this argument is still similar though. Children who have many friends still share common interests in gaming so they head over to their friends houses and do team deathmatches in whatever fps games they have at hand. To end this mildly, whether you are well loved by the kids of your generation or a social paraih, you will still play video games whenever you can. It's just something we all enjoy and feel comfortable with. Yes, MODERATE the amount of time we do spend on them, but by no means take them away.
This Miss America may have gotten where she is by minor academic prowess, stunning good looks (though I seriously doubt that), or sheer dumb luck, but no amount of education or worldly travelling will ever give anyone the right to tell another human being how to live their life. Our minds discovered free will at some point in our minute existence, and we ran with the concept. Problem is, there will always be those who believe they know what's best for us all. How do you know that? Do you know what everyone in the world is thinking or doing at the exact same time? Do you know what their living conditions are like? Do you know what kind of people they are? No, because that is impossible.
She should have stuck with a topic that would have garnered her less flak like 'world peace' or 'an end to famine.' Still, if those were her original thoughts (something I could be convinced of since I read the interview) then I salute you Miss. You were willing to do something fewer and fewer of us as a species have the courage to do when it counts. I just wish you had chosen your words a bit better, is all.
