Misguided efforts

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not committed to improving the world, which is why we sometimes post here about what is wrong with society.  Today's topic is misguided efforts.  Much time and effort is spent today on improving society, but most of the ways people attempt to improve society are misguided and produce side effects that are as bad or worse than the initial problem.  Case in point, this father, who decided that his son was spending altogether too much time playing video games online.  His goal was to reduce the amount of time his son spent playing, and he figured he would accomplish this goal by having his son's avatar assassinated.  He hired virtual assassins to harass his son's avatar with their avatars, and figured that by having his player killed his son would stop playing.  Unfortunately, however, these sorts of games often have players die and respawn, and his son's character would not just die like a real-world counterpart would.  His son ended up confronting the assassins and asking why they kept bothering him, and when he found out was probably rather irritated with his father.  Regardless of the topic our supporters should be careful not to just jump on a bandwagon, even if it does have a good goal.  Careful consideration should be given to the likely outcomes, lest we all end up irritating our sons instead of convincing them to not play so many video games.