Parents who do not allow their kids to play video games are depriving them of an important strategy for coping with stress and setting them up to become lonely.

The statement warns that children may become stressed and lonely if they are not allowed to play video games. Those consequences are meant to stir concern and feelings in the reader, rather than prove the point with logic or appeal to moral standards. Therefore, it is an emotional appeal.

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