Cop Killing Video Game
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I think that a bigger problem may not be just the games, but the entire media as a whole. Any movie I have watched were police officers were in the major plot, it seemed that the bad guy in the end was always the police officer. I can only think of maybe at best three or four movies in the past five years were police officers ever played "good guys". As well I did enjoy playing GTA3 Vice City, however I myself am smart enough to know that I was playing a bad guy, and I don't support criminal activity one bit. The major concern however is that more often younger kids are playing these games, I've heard of kids in Grade 3 playing Grand Theft Auto. At that age I think a child is very impressionable, and the last thing any of us want is for kids to get their values from this game. As well parenting is harder then it was before, even if you ban a game from your house, your kid could just as easily play it at a neighbour's house or a friends house. I think that they should make violent video games illegal to buy for children under the age of 16, as well if parents come into a video game store and ask for a computer game and say its for their 12 year old kid then they shouldn't be allowed to buy it.
Video games should be set at the same standards as movies. I think that a good idea would be to get parents to be to get a license for taking care of kids. Why not, if they expect to have kids the least they should do is learn how to make kids into good citizens.
Video games should be set at the same standards as movies. I think that a good idea would be to get parents to be to get a license for taking care of kids. Why not, if they expect to have kids the least they should do is learn how to make kids into good citizens.
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Hey I have an idea! Let's institute a crazy new radical idea called parenting! Along with it comes a crazy new word called Accountability!
Sound crazy? It just might be...
If you don't want kids to play violent video games, don't let them. If your kid goes out one day and whacks a cop, then blames it on a video game...the game is the least of your worries, your kid is insane.
Don't forget folks, the video game generation grew up. Now the kids that used to play the Atari and Nintendo games longing for games with absolute anarchy and violence are now making those games. Bottom line is they're still games at the end of the day. Just like movies are still movies. It's up to parents and parents alone to monitor what their kids watch and play.
Don't like it? Don't buy it.
I grew up watching horror/slasher movies at a very young age, it was pretty a pretty controversial thing to do at the time, but i haven't killed anyone yet, don't have any plans for it either. It's the same shit, just a new and slightly different pile.
Sound crazy? It just might be...
If you don't want kids to play violent video games, don't let them. If your kid goes out one day and whacks a cop, then blames it on a video game...the game is the least of your worries, your kid is insane.
Don't forget folks, the video game generation grew up. Now the kids that used to play the Atari and Nintendo games longing for games with absolute anarchy and violence are now making those games. Bottom line is they're still games at the end of the day. Just like movies are still movies. It's up to parents and parents alone to monitor what their kids watch and play.
Don't like it? Don't buy it.
I grew up watching horror/slasher movies at a very young age, it was pretty a pretty controversial thing to do at the time, but i haven't killed anyone yet, don't have any plans for it either. It's the same shit, just a new and slightly different pile.
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Somehow society has dealt with touchy subjects in the past. The porn industry is a wee bit bigger these days than in say the fifties. Magicly a compromise was made and now videos are in their own "backrooms" and magazines have coloured plastic pouches. In the end though it boiled down to parenting preventing children from trying to get at it. Sure its still easy for kids to get at it and everyone knows when you say something is forbidden to your kids, it becomes that much more alluring.
But as for video games, virtually every game out there offends someone and interests another. To say video games create killers, is a joke. Look back to the advent of television.It was said to be the root cause of the familly break ups in the 50's and 60's. Its just easier to blame something else than to admit, "I didn't spend enough time talking to my kids"
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But as for video games, virtually every game out there offends someone and interests another. To say video games create killers, is a joke. Look back to the advent of television.It was said to be the root cause of the familly break ups in the 50's and 60's. Its just easier to blame something else than to admit, "I didn't spend enough time talking to my kids"
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As well as porn being tucked away in corners away from the paws of kids, video games now all have their own ESRB rating posted on the packaging of the game ie; 18+, E or what have you. Kids can't just go into Walmart and pick up a copy of GTA if they're only 10 years old, only with their consenting parental guardian with them.
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Exactly.
There is a rating system out there an the only people who seem to go by them is the people in the movie theaters themselves. Having some experience in a retail music shop, my experience led me to believe that parents don't really care. To them its just a record or game. Cartoons are for kids and they would get some upset when they bought Dragonball Z and it wasn't the clean version they see on TV but the original adult content version with the swearing and the contexts intended for a more mature audience.
It was my fault for trying to dissuade them from buying it. It was my fault for selling it to them. It was my fault for the content of the product.
Hey I warned ya and pointed the advisory warning out to you. But can I interest you in Nelly's new release or how about some ODB. There is good family sing songs.
There is a rating system out there an the only people who seem to go by them is the people in the movie theaters themselves. Having some experience in a retail music shop, my experience led me to believe that parents don't really care. To them its just a record or game. Cartoons are for kids and they would get some upset when they bought Dragonball Z and it wasn't the clean version they see on TV but the original adult content version with the swearing and the contexts intended for a more mature audience.
It was my fault for trying to dissuade them from buying it. It was my fault for selling it to them. It was my fault for the content of the product.
Hey I warned ya and pointed the advisory warning out to you. But can I interest you in Nelly's new release or how about some ODB. There is good family sing songs.
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