Kids should not play neopets it is a bad influence on them

My opponent has already conceded that the Luck and Chance category games are bad. "It may have a negative category" He defends this though by implying that if kids really did want to play gambling games they do not have to go to neopets. I got to say this is a really weak point to make... Kids do not own credit cards so they cannot do any actual gambling... trying to find new sites to gamble on would just be a waste of time considering there is already a good gambling site they are used to (neopets). Parents making accounts for their children is a good point, but making an account on neopets is not hard, neither is transferring all your items from one account to the other. If a child wanted to play the extra games not available to them due to age they can simply make a new account, change the birthday, and transfer all their items from their other account into the new one via, trading posts, store sales for money transfer, and gift giving to friends which neopets allows. Luck and Chance have games that are in the most popular section meaning kids are playing those games very frequently at the young age they are in. The fact that neopets even have a negative category should make parents force their kids to not play it. Animal Fighting... A parent can tell the power rangers are just a T.V show but it does not stop the kids from reenacting it in school. Kids reenact unreal games all the time its not new. [1] The article shows that a kid accidentally killed his brother trying to reenact a game he played on the PS2. It is a matter of time before the kids will want to make their violent game more real, by pretending knives are "magic swords" or using the actual pets as fighters in a "battledome" Kids can also learn and grow if they make the mistakes of reenacting these violent acts. As parents do they really want to take that chance of their children reenacting the descriptive battle in a neopets battle dome? Instead of continuing to allow these kids to have a chance of exposure to this negative material, parents should just find other ways to entertain their kids like sports, reading, educational television or etc. A child does not need violence to spark his/her imagination, sorry CON. 3. Communication Just because its not as bad as other sites its okay??? So just because neopets might have a lower abduction rate we should still take the chance and use it? If you tell that to a parent, you really think they will continue to allow their kids to play neopets? We do not know who we are talking to on the internet... anyone can be using those usernames that makes them seem like little kids. Kids can learn not to make mistakes on the internet, but lets not hope that they make the very mistake first before learning not to do it. 4. Con I am going to use your argument except kids DO play the gambling games and YES it is still there, they are more likely to start gambling first then to play the stock market that is what neopet statistics based on popular games have showed. Neopets is widely popular among kids, I have not even heard of miniclip, kids are drawn to the popular sites and sadly neopets is one of them. Closing comment Con has already conceded to my point that the luck and chance games are negative. His solution to all my contentions are to not worry about it because kids can go to other sites and play the exact same kinds of games. Well kids can also just stay on these sites and continue to play these kinds of games which still leads to early exposure to gambling... What if neopets was what started the desire to gamble in a kids life in the first place? Animal Violence I have already shown that kids will reenact what they play, watch, or read because they are kids they are naive they do not know what is real or not. (EX. Santa Claus) As for communication just because neopets is not as bad as other adult sites does not mean that it automatically becomes a good site. A school bully who picks on the weak is bad but just because he did not put people through the holocaust like Hitler did, does that mean his actions become good now? No it doesn't 1.http://www.geek.com...