Slashdot Mirror
Illinois Videogame Law Struck Down
Big_Al_B writes "CNN reports that a federal judge ruled against the state of Illinois law that banned the sale of some games to minors." From the article: "The Illinois law, which also was to go into effect January 1, would have barred stores from selling or renting extremely violent or sexual games to minors, and allowed $1,000 fines for violators. Kennelly said the law would interfere with the First Amendment and there wasn't a compelling enough reason, such as preventing imminent violence, to allow that." Triumphantly, GamePolitics offers up the ESA's reaction to the decision. The Governor has vowed to appeal, so this isn't over yet.
That's fine if you live away from other people or just with other sociopaths who all think alike. The problem is that you want me to think like you: to agree that the rights of the strong always trump those of the weak (in this case, children). I don't agree and my grandparents fought a war against those who felt that way (for example, what you said above is almost word for word what Hitler told a man who asked him for advice on running his local nazi party).
"I have no problem with saying that I want those I agree with enforced, and I want the right to request those I don't agree with put to a vote", you say: well that does not make any sense
If you can't understand the basic principles of democracy that would at least explain why you are saying the things you are saying, but it doesn't mean I, or anyone else, should have to make allowances for your ignorance or malice.
If I or a small group of people find them bad bad bad, we might want to take action against them, but I don't see any need for yet another state monopoly - the one on violence, in this instance.
Yes, it's always fun to imagine what you would do to bad people without all that tedious blather of a trial or evidence or other regulations. Until it's your neck in the noose because you happened to have the same name as some rapist. "Only the gulity have anything to fear" has been the watchword of the vigilante since the dawn of time and it's always been bullshit.
Besides, mentioning that some things only happen in my head is an insult.
Well, you put forward a chain of consequences without any explanation as to why they inevitably had to lead to each other so I assumed they were in your head. Perhaps you read them in some strange book, I don't know.
Nowhere in my post did I insult you.
I was careful not to insult you, despite it being both easy and deserved.
But some of it was done by the state, in the past. If you don't believe it, well, go and read up.
I know it has happened, but in post-revolution China it has never been policy and they have executed people, even officials, for doing it. Of course, in your world the people doing it would be free to do so as long as they could terrorise the local population into letting them.
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Kind of like those republicans that try to take away our abortions, free speech, religious freedom, and gay marriage. Bunch of nancy-girls.