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Switzerland Pursues Violent Games Ban
BanjoTed writes "We hear lots about the issues facing violent games in Australia, but the anti-games bandwagon is gathering pace closer to home — in Switzerland, to be precise. The Swiss government is gearing up to consider a total ban on mature games in the country."
If as an adult you let the government treat you like a child, remember what happened to you as a child when you "said something mommy and daddy didn't like".
I'd like to see this much dedication in governments to other, more serious, forms of violence such as hunger, desease, poverty and (there I say it!?) corruption and unemployment. Yes, I realize banning unemployment is futile (some people are incompetent) but I consider it a vile form of violence against 40-something people when they're too old for employment but too young for retirement. But if they can get it right with some little things, maybe they can figure out how to get it right with bigger, more important things; but that is just a silly dream of mine.
My sig is better than your sig.
Some of us are Australian, funnily enough.
"Mature" games? As in, games where the player must kill or rape other otherwise torture other people? Strange definition of maturity...
You'll find stupid laws in any country, just because you heard of the minaret ban doesn't mean that's representative of Switzerland. Besides free speech does not mean you can build whatever you want, the minaret ban does not prevent anyone from saying what they want.
I got far more worked up over the ban on minarets that they enacted last year. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/world/europe/30swiss.html That was a much more serious violation of basic rights.
Can you name the "basic rights" that are being violated here? Nobody is stopping Muslims in Switzerland from practicing their religion, they are only not allowed to impose it on everyone else in the form of giant rockets (erect penises?) whose only purpose is to promote the said religion. Since they are not even being used for calling for prayer what else is their purpose?
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Why do they not ban all films, books, and CDs with content unsuitable for children as well?
Wow, you've changed my life! I suppose we could say that you've souffled it! I mean, you'd know what I meant, right?
which is totally what she said
Pure democracy is called "tyranny of the majority" for a reason.
Usually by people who wouldn't get their own way in a true democracy. Well boo hoo, suck it up , thats what true democracy is about. But instead in the west we generally have the type of "democracy" where the elected leaders happily ignore the majority in favour of pressure groups and minorities who make lots of noise. How exactly is that anything other than the tyranny of the minority?
Wouldn't it be easier to ban children directly?
Write boring code, not shiny code!
It's called that for a reason.
In a true democracy the majority have all the power.
If 50% of the population vote yes then they can slaughter of all gays, black people or *generic unpopular group*
I guess boo hoo, suck it up , thats what true democracy is about.
Fortunatly most democracies are constitutional democracies where the power of the majority is limited so that groups which are not a large portion of the population don't get shit upon by the majority.
Can you name the "basic rights" that are being violated here? Nobody is stopping Muslims in Switzerland from practicing their religion, they are only not allowed to impose it on everyone else in the form of giant rockets (erect penises?) whose only purpose is to promote the said religion. Since they are not even being used for calling for prayer what else is their purpose?
Can you name the "basic rights" that are being violated here? Nobody is stopping Christians in Switzerland from practicing their religion, they are only not allowed to impose it on everyone else in the form of giant torture devices (lower case 't's?) whose only purpose is to promote the said religion. Since they are not even being used for crucifying people what else is their purpose?
And the chances of that happening are ....
Funny you say that - sorry to Godwin the thread, but you do remember that Hitler was democratically voted in* on a platform that was less than equality based?
*before instituting powers that would allow him to take total control.