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Most Laws Attempting Limits of Violent Videogames Fail
circletimessquare writes "Good news for common sense: the New York Times examines the track record of state laws attempting to put additional limits on violent videogames, and finds that the courts have struck almost all of them down as unconstitutional. Especially notable is this gem of a quote, from Judge Richard A. Posner: 'Violence has always been and remains a central interest of humankind and a recurrent, even obsessive theme of culture both high and low ... It engages the interest of children from an early age, as anyone familiar with the classic fairy tales collected by Grimm, Andersen, and Perrault are aware. To shield children right up to the age of 18 from exposure to violent descriptions and images would not only be quixotic, but deforming; it would leave them unequipped to cope with the world as we know it.'"
..... Is gonna be really pissed about this. Now we'll have a new round of him going apeshit over violence in video games. Sigh.
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... "And while you're at it, spank your children and stop reading them politically correct fairy tales. Yes the gingerbread house is made from bad little boys and girls."
- Stories-Modern/dp/002542730X
http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Correct-Bedtime
"If still these truths be held to be
Self evident."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Yea, they regularly have naked red wine parties, and they turn out just fine!
A game of any kind ought to be harmless fun, but we've reached a point where everything has to be allowed.
There is no need for entertainment to use foul language or blood and gore just for the sake of it.
Same goes for using the name of God or Jesus or lewdness.
This is not escape from realisim, just more of the same.
Ad Astra Per Asper
Off the top of my head, the Emperors new clothes. Although you've got me on the sex
"Synergies are basically awesome, and they're even better when you leverage them." Tycho, PA 14/2/7
Aladdin: sex
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass: sex
Beauty and the Beast: sex
Cinderella: sex, nudity
Little red riding hood: bestiality
The list goes on and on.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
OK Some of those I'll give you but Little Red Riding Hood?! I don't recall hearing "My grandma, what a huge wang you have!" That didn't make my cut! I mean pretty much anything with a Prince Charming or some chick kissing a frog, sure, but I think you're really reaching on this one.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?