Most Laws Attempting Limits of Violent Videogames Fail

[Eyedunno]

Well, it's not really kids' minds "absorbing" anything, and I didn't want to get on a political soapbox. All I'm saying is that if kids watch a Ninja Turtles movie (I use that example because it's a memory from my own childhood), most of them will start playfighting afterwards. My concern is mainly that we don't want kids to break each others' necks because they don't know any better, and good parental supervision seems a better solution than cutbacks in freedom.

And it's TOTAL nonsense that video games have some unique potential to generate mass murderers and so on, as some of the media would have had us believe with regard to the Columbine shootings and other violent acts. I wonder what violent video games were played by Jack the Ripper, Albert Fish, and Vlad the Impaler.

Now bad parenting and low-quality education DO contribute to criminality, but for politicians, those are tough eggs to crack, and don't really help to get votes. It's much easier to attack video games, movies, music, and books.

[VampDude]

What fun would non-violent VideoGames be? I for one vote that no violence or a restriction of violence in VideoGames would be a bad thing in the long run as people will turn to real violence, I have always turned to VideoGames when I'm in a pissed off state of mind (and I'm sure many others do too). I would rather take my temper out on a computer generated person than on a real person, because at least in a VideoGame no one dies or gets hurt in real life.

[mcdougall57]

man that last quote shows how ****ed up our world is

[acn010]

hey mcdougall57... that is how humans live and have their mind set..... meh... its better off on computer generated things to destroy rather than destroy the real thing