GTA and the whole "thug" culture is pretty sick. Black America is lost without a map, and more and more of white America is stopping to ask them for directions.1000 points for Dan the Man!!!
violent videogames and kids
by doogie 22 Replies latest jw friends
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prophecor
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BeelzeDub
And to think, the violent video games all started right here....
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R6Laser
While I agree that these video games very violent, they are not intended for teenagers or kids. They clearly state that on the box before you buy it. They are intended for adults, rated Mature. Now if a place like Walmart allowed teenagers to buy a Mature game then they should be fined just like a theatre would be fined if they would let teenagers in a Rated R movie. Why put the blame on the creators of the game? Instead the blame should be put at the parents that allow their teenage kids to play these types of game. Now, I have played all kinds of games including Halo and GTA and I don't feel the need to go out and start shooting cops or anyone for that matter. I think that the problem boils down to parenting, why are we so fast to blame everyone else when it should start with responsible parents. If the government starts banning everything why stop with violent video games? Why not continue on to ban violent books and violent sports? Heck why not ban the bible, as we all know there are explicit stories in the bible about violence.
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prophecor
And to think, the violent video games all started right here....
Be-elzdub, that was f'n hillarious, whereever did you find that?, because in a way, it's so true. We all started playing with that silly game so many 100's of years ago. Thanks for the reminder. -
doogie
The difficulty is, is that it's impossible to guarantee that these adult games aren't going to make it into the hands of children - either by unscrupulous traders or uninterested parents, or purely by accident. The same thing goes for adult films, books, the internet, ad infinitum - for the most part, most vigilant parents know what their kids are up to, and will protect them accordingly.
i'm with you Bull.
i agree with preventing kids from viewing questionable media. but when people start demanding censorship of violent videogames (remember when mortal kombat came out?), and the rights of parents to sue the developers for their own lack of supervision, let's be fair and apply these demands across the board...books, movies, tv, newspapers, magazines, music.
i just can't wait until all forms of media have to be sanctioned by the government. just imagine how SAFE and HAPPY we'll all be!!!!!!
charles manson was positive the beatles were telling him to kill. does that make the beatles evil or charles manson crazy?
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prophecor
let's be fair and apply these demands across the board...books, movies, tv, newspapers, magazines, music.
Doogie, I'll give you a pass on that one, parents are required to take responsibility for the things that their children become involved in, at least for what goes on in their personal home.We as parents face tough decisions, and because of our desire to be friends with our children and not parents, some of us have very troubled relations between us, myself included.
My buying my stepson GTA San Andreas was a desperate attempt to bridge a very spacious gap between my inability to effectively relate to him as a stepson, as well as a teenager, who has a massive ammount of struggle going on in his life, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
It was the worst thing I could've done.
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doogie
prophecor-
i'm sorry if i offended. i meant no disrespect. when it comes to setting boundaries while still being your kid's buddy, i have no room to talk. for what its worth, if i'm ever a parent, i have a feeling it will be extemely hard for me to set boundaries and say no.
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Valis
Black America is lost without a map, and more and more of white America is stopping to ask them for directions.
huh? I'm not sure where that came from and IMO it verges on racism. The culture of violence and glamourizing it goes way farther back then say a blip on the pop culture screen. I mean people have been enjoying violence as far back, and longer I'm sure, as the Roman Colliseum, so to say that one culture is responsible for promoting violence is short sided and particularly offensive IMO.
Sincerely,
District Overbeer
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DanTheMan
I guess my reactions to hip-hop and thug culture are somewhat knee-jerk and racist and reflect my own paranoid and narcissistic outlook, I won't deny it. I struggle everyday to find some sort of hope, something to make me think that maybe humanity isn't *that* bad, but it's hard....I'm kind of a judgemental shit that way, always condemning and being mad about the state of the world. *sigh*
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doogie
this is kind of off topic, but i think that just as every generation feels that the apocolypse is right around the corner, it seems like every generation thinks that society can't possibly get any "worse".
who knows what worse is, though. we live longer, stay healthier for longer, are more globally united, know more about our universe and technology than ever before in the history of mankind. that's pretty good. granted, we still have a long way to go and humans are still a barbaric species (there we go...i wasn't sure if my rant would come back to violence...), but we're getting there.
i think humanity isn't that bad and as far as history goes, we've never been better.