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LiterSize:
So the Governor here in IL wants to start issuing fines to retailers selling M rated games with heavy themes of sex and violence and other naughty things to minors.  I think he should focus on the CTA problem, personally rather than helping parents police their own children on access to a luxury item.  Isn't this such an age old topic?  

Video games bad!  They make our kids violent!  And do drugs!  And... and... pick up prostitutes to beat them up and then take over Vice City and San Andreas under a hail of bullets in a wake of blood, death and destruction!


.... my goodness. ;_;

Wysiwyg:
Games are bad. So don´t do game. Mmmmkay?

i remember some time ago when the government here decided to ban Carmageddon because it lead people towards violence, therefore responsible for the high death numbers in car accident. Rrrrrright... I mean, bad road maintenance, poor signaling, horrible school drivings and no fiscalisation had nothing to do with. It was the game´s fault! Oh, gfckyrslf.

Switchblade:
It's been a long-held universal law of government and society that the guilty factor is NOT, in fact, such mundane things as lack of appropriate maintenance, cuts in funding, apathetic government figures and people not paying attention to the real issue, but rather, all that is wrong in the world can be attributed to a scapegoat phenomenon. computer games juswt happen to be the latest in a long string of phenomena that includes TV, radio, mobile phones and modern music. hell, they censored PRESLEY when he first appeared.

frustrating, but unavoidable.

ForteBass:
But at the same time, these stores aren't supposed to be selling these games to minors in the first place. There's a reason there's ratings on these games, after all, so on one level a store should be held accountable for selling the game. Mind you, however, I am all about the parenting. I think it is up to me, as a parent, to decide what materials are appropriate for my children.  Which is why I fully intend to have my kids bring me every album/video game/book they buy just to make sure it is age appropriate.

LiterSize:
Forte:

That's admirable.  Seriously.


The rating system... there was all this hubbub about how it's censorship this and blah that, even I thought it was kind of unnecessary at first, but then I used to work at Target and some 10-12 yr. old kid came in with his Mom looking to by GTA: Vice City.  The guy at the register looked at the kid and the game and told the mom, "Ma'am you know this game is rated mature, right?"
The mother was all shocked and asked her child "What kinda game am I buying for you?"

Needless to say, I don't believe little Johnny got to meet Tommy Vercetti.  The moral?  The rating system at least is an added measure to get parents more in the know about what their kids are being exposed to, and I see that now.

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