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You Played Violent Games - Why Can't Your Kids?
An anonymous reader writes: "On the Wired site, Clive Thompson has up an article that points out a sobering truth: gamers are getting older. Folks who grew up playing videogames like Doom and Quake are now facing parental decisions with their own kids regarding appropriate content. Thompson cites well known gamer dads like Kotaku's Brian Crecente, discussing some of the approaches folks educated in gaming take with their own offspring: '"Everybody knows, as an adult, that the world is not always a nice place," Crecente told me. "But I don't want him to know that yet. I want him to have a childhood." So he disallows games with "realistic" combat, like World War II titles, or Resistance: Fall of Man, but permits highly cartoony shooting, like Starfox on the Nintendo DS -- since he regards it as essentially as abstract as playing cops and robbers with your fingers as guns.' Where do you think gamer parents should draw the line? If you have kids, what approach are you taking to introducing them to gaming? How old is 'old enough' to start fragging?"
I wondered why so many people were willing to be surveiled without an evidence trail, be subject to rediculous and ineffective 'security procedures' before flying on an airline, and voluntarilly suppress their freedom of speech.
They are scared because they believe the hype. The scared ones scream for war, even after the war-mongerers have been shown to have lied. They are craven, pathetic dregs of society...nationalists, jingoists, religionists. It wasn't the pacifists who wanted to attack a nation that never hurt the USA...it was the scared-as-shit violent trash!
I blame the media that suppresses sexuality and glorifies violence and horror before I blame the pacifists. We've had the Hippies since the 1960s...I think this anti-violence trend is in reaction to the real violence being perpetrated arround the world in our name.
Blar.