12-04-2007, 09:45 AM
New catchphrase, same old issue. It's like twisted old Jack Thompson in another part of the world.
Our country and gaming scene is another matter entirely though. Ratings don't apply here, and we have bigger problems than looking at the correlation of real-life viiolence and video games. I think we're poor enough as a country to not have to resort to attaching violence outside to the games we play. It just doesn't happen in that magnitude here as compared to say, Korea and America.
Somehow though, there has to be a line drawn on where the responsibility of the ratings board ends, and personal responsibility starts. People just can't argue that the ratings don't work, if they don't follow them. That's stupid.
Quote:In the past few years, the exposure of young people to dangerous media has reached such a shocking level that politicians need to act immediately before an entire generation of children and adolescents are taken in by this whirlwind of violence… [A ban is the only way to] maintain the fundamental consensus of a humane society.So by this logic, violent movies, TV shows, and even news are to be censored. OK, that's stupid. The reason why the ESRB (the board responsible for assigning ratings to games) has existed up until now is because they do their function, and that's making sure that the violent games get tagged and identified as such. The job of being the youth's guardians to the level of screening out what games they should play in their homes isn't their responsibility anymore. Parents are the one who should do that. Parents, parents, parents. I don't know why they can't understand this.
Quote:As reported by Heise, the German Society for Scientific Person-Centred Psychotherapy (GwG) claims that parents are somehow being duped into buying violent games for their children on the basis that they promote “media competence.”Duped, huh? So are there examples of parents buying their young kids GTA because they "didn't know it was violent", and promoted "media competence", despite the big black and white rating pasted up front? If so, then it's the parent's fault, not the games. We can't blame video games developers forever, in spite of them admittedly making some of these games to cash in on shock value (which, when you think about it, people get pretty tired of anyway).
Our country and gaming scene is another matter entirely though. Ratings don't apply here, and we have bigger problems than looking at the correlation of real-life viiolence and video games. I think we're poor enough as a country to not have to resort to attaching violence outside to the games we play. It just doesn't happen in that magnitude here as compared to say, Korea and America.
Somehow though, there has to be a line drawn on where the responsibility of the ratings board ends, and personal responsibility starts. People just can't argue that the ratings don't work, if they don't follow them. That's stupid.
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