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video game debate
17 Sep 2010 12:27 pmConcerning banning of video games in California
A lot of replies scoffed at the 72% of parents and called them useless parents who didn't want to do the work themselves in controlling their own children's gaming habits.
If I were a parent I'd be in that 72% and that's not because I want the government to make that decision in deciding what my child can play because I can't do it myself.
The reason being - I can do it myself. It's the other kids that I'm worried about. The ones who are going to come to school (America we're talking about here) with a loaded gun or a knife. How many of the victims of these alleged game-inspired violence actually played the games themselves? How many of them died, completely oblivious about the industry that fostered their killer?
I'm not going into the debate about gaming violence versus media violence and the perspectives and immediacy in which they differ.
I'm just saying that 72% of parents have a very valid reason to want a ban, and it has nothing to do with whether they can look after their own children. After all - most parents would probably be upset and horrified if their kid was the perpetrator, but they would be enraged and distraught and shattered and suing the crap out of anyone they can lay hands on if their kids were the victim.
A lot of replies scoffed at the 72% of parents and called them useless parents who didn't want to do the work themselves in controlling their own children's gaming habits.
If I were a parent I'd be in that 72% and that's not because I want the government to make that decision in deciding what my child can play because I can't do it myself.
The reason being - I can do it myself. It's the other kids that I'm worried about. The ones who are going to come to school (America we're talking about here) with a loaded gun or a knife. How many of the victims of these alleged game-inspired violence actually played the games themselves? How many of them died, completely oblivious about the industry that fostered their killer?
I'm not going into the debate about gaming violence versus media violence and the perspectives and immediacy in which they differ.
I'm just saying that 72% of parents have a very valid reason to want a ban, and it has nothing to do with whether they can look after their own children. After all - most parents would probably be upset and horrified if their kid was the perpetrator, but they would be enraged and distraught and shattered and suing the crap out of anyone they can lay hands on if their kids were the victim.
