The Blue Whale game provokes children to do unethical things in the name of adventure and become slave to a master
Radhika
We are living in an age where a majority of us are getting ruled and dominated by the smart phones and various applications on the social media. With these new technologies, we are able to experience both the good and the bad sides of it. Here comes the importance of our state of mind to use things in the right way and for the right. When the degree of disadvantage increases, it becomes an issue to be discussed, until then it’s not noticed or taken seriously.
The ‘blue whale game’ which has terrified people all over the world by its huge impact on the young generation is a net result of this ignorance and this is a pinpointing incident which shows that there is a moral destabilisation in the
budding generation and it is also an indicator of how parents are totally leaving things to the children’s hands. Apart from the huge terror impact which this game has brought out, it is a strong indication on wrong parenting. Parents are failing to keep hold on their children by neglecting little mistakes which they do, which later on gets magnified into big mistakes.
When parents aren’t itself sure of the technology which they are using, how is it advisable to give such an unknown thing to their own children to be used to their full freedom? Secondly, when a child does something secretly and when there is a change in his or her behavior ,why aren”t the parents noticing this and why aren”t they finding the root cause of it. So partially or more, it is the negligence of parents which had lead them to a situation where they had to face the hardest realities of life. Children are lacking the care and attention from the parents whom some of them are totally ignorant about this new technology world and a latter part who is having all the knowledge about the technology side, but aren’t having a serious approach that they should have to their beloved children.
The blue whale game is a very serious game which has a tendency to provoke children to do unethical things in the name of adventure. The whole aim and strategy of the game are to make a child’s mind a slave to a master and make that child a play doll to do whatever the master says which ultimately ends in the instruction of suicide. So a boy or girl who is playing this should at least have the common sense of what a game should really be and what aim a game should primarily have. Is this game which instructs you from the outside to stay back from your loved ones and to bring self-harm within a time period, a game merely? Children who have taken up this game always see through that they do those tasks given by the curator diligently without an excuse. They are forced to remain alone, to watch horror movies, to stay awake all night, to bring wounds on the body every day with razors and compass, to take a picture of their wounds bleeding, to spend time thinking about suicide and spending time in places like the cemeteries all night. And children are just ready to do all these insane tasks! The question here is why aren’t children able to assess the harm it brings to them and why are they getting easily motivated or brainwashed to do such serious things just by hearing from others? Why aren’t they able to remember their parent’s love and affection?
For such questions to arise in a child’s mind, he has to be nurtured in such a background too, where they are loving to spend time with parents, where they are loving to share each and everything about them and when they are ready to keep the parents always in their world. All this takes a great time and is a gradual process to build up such a cordial, cooperative and an ethical relationship between a parent and a child.
(The writer is a B.SC student)
