Canada has no patience for lazy gamers

Canada, your government has a message for you: stop being so damn lazy. Turn off your game consoles and go outside for a change. ParticiPACTION, an organization funded by the Canadian government to help educate people on being active, shares a similar message to that of Presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama. He’s said several times (and I’m paraphrasing) to ‘turn off the game system and go outside.’

Here’s one of ParticiPACTION’s recent ads dealing with inactive, video-game-playing, kids.

My feeling is this: yeah…ok. So video games are making people fat. But people were fat before video games existed. So…maybe video games are the lesser of two (read: bad diets, lazy people, genetics) evils.

Yeah, I impress even myself with my logic sometimes.