You Played Violent Games - Why Can't Your Kids?

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 8, 2007 @11:21PM from the time-to-sit-your-kid-down-to-have-the-frags-and-camping-talk dept.

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?"

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Re:The world is a big and scary place by lukas84 · 2007-04-09 01:57 · Score: 0, Troll

Sorry, but you sound like a fundamentalist nutcase to me. I will try to argue my point anyway, though it probably is pointless.
Right and wrong are black and white. To say the are gray is to have no morals at all. Life is far to complex to be able to break it down into black and white.

Every case should be judged on it's own, and your moral should be flexible enough to allow you to do the right thing. Whatever that is.
My teenage boys are to leave any location where 'M' games are played. They understand this rule and follow it. I'm sure they do. I'm just thankful that i didn't have parents like you.