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Clinton, Lieberman Propose CDC Investigate Games
Gamespot reports that Senators Clinton and Lieberman have asked the Centers for Disease control to investigate how games impact us poor deluded citizens. From the article: "Even though the legislation--called the Children and Media Research Advancement Act--does not include restrictions, it appears to be intended as a way to justify them. That's because a string of court decisions have been striking down antigaming laws because of a lack of hard evidence that minors are harmed by violence in video games. The original version of the bill earmarked $90 million for the study, but Lieberman press secretary Rob Sawicki said that the committee had approved the measure without any dollar figure and that such a figure would be added later during the appropriations process." Gamasutra has some background on the bill, which was originally proposed in 2003.
Dear Sen. Clinton Get off it you stupid bitch. No fucking Republcians are going to vote for you no mater how much of a nazi you become on soft target issues like comoputer games and rap. Either introduce legislation targeting gays and blacks or shut the fuck up, becuase thats the only thing you could do to make them like you.
The Bible is full of horrible violence. Many people who've read it throughtout history have been influenced to do terrible things to people. I think the CDC should look into the effects the Bible has on young children.
At the the very least Bibles should come with a graphic violence warning.
I don't need teachers, police officers, firefighters, librarians, neighbors, or anyone else to tell me wether or not my kids play too many video games.
No, but you do need scientists and doctors to tell you what they've discovered about how video games affect children, because you aren't knowledgeable enough on the topic. You might as well say, "I don't need anyone telling me how much lead paint my children need to be exposed to."
Do you really believe parents shouldn't be armed with knowledge when it comes to raising children? Can you possibly believe it's bad to provide parents with info regarding the effects different types of video games have on a child's development?
And, in fact, throughout history children have been raised quite successfully without teachers...
Name one. Genghis Khan? Even if you can name a few, I can name countless others who did have that support system of the village.
Likewise, if I can name a handful of successful people who were raised without parents, does that mean we should do away with parenting?
I didn't say it didn't help, or that some things the community provides aren't beneficial, I said it doesn't take a community to raise a child, it takes parents.
That's a very nice theory you have. It's simple, it says, "stay out of my life, government". It sounds heroic. It makes you want to stand up and salute the flag.
Unfortunately, like all theories, it is worthless if it doesn't coincide with reality. Reality states that a strong and healthy community is more important than just a pair of parents. Good parents are very important. And good community is as well. Even the most moral parents are going to have a hard time raising children in south central, while even horrible parents will be helped with a healthy community.
And more than what you mention, what Hillary MEANT was...
No, she meant that children need a strong support system, a support system that goes well beyond, but does include, a pair of adults, to be raised well. History and the state of the world today bears this out.
What do you do, good parent, when your child needs medicine? Do you grow it in the backyard? Do you pray for them? Or do you take them to the doctor? What happens when it comes time to educate your child? Do you just pass on your own knowledge? Or do you send them to school? Or hire a private teacher? Or if you choose to home school them personally, do you not rely on books and courses designed by others? When it comes time to feed your child, do you grow and raise all your own food, including all of the ingredients? Or do you buy food? Clothes? Entertainment? Etc.
How do you reconcile your theory with reality? The fact is that most parents really aren't all that great. What's more likely to happen, what's more likely to have a more positive result and likeliness of happening: parents are going to just, on their own, become good parents? or building a better society will help produce better children, which will produce better parents and a better society, which will produce better children, and so on?
What your theory amounts to is akin to, "we don't need doctors, you just need to not get sick". Well, given that we do get sick, we do need doctors. Given that we do have children without good parents, what do you do? Do you just say, "hey, I said, you need parents!!!" and hope that fixes things? Or do you work to build a healthy community that all children can benefit from?