05-26-2003, 09:50 AM
that wasn't a contradiction, I'm merely stating that no DEFINITIVE proof can be placed on anything. This isn't debate club where you have to point something out minute and then you won. I think you may want to pay attention to the rest of what I said. But I want to show you a comic that really shows what I was thinking:
http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/2003/05/14/
http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/2003/05/15
This is how I think parents are. A filter for what life is. Parents are meant to raise their children so that they can grow up adjusted and know what is what. If we were to take away the parental filter, what else is there for kids to learn from? We have school, playground kids (which are always a constant source of disinformation), video games and TV. These 4 items are the other forms of interaction that almost all children have (I know there are others, but they aren't in the majority). By removing the parental filter, all other ideas will come in the brains of the child and there will be no one else to tell them that they are bad ideas. So we more or less have a kid who is ripe for the brainwashing from video games and TV. While some parents play their parental filter role well, there are those that don't, and that's when we get chidren that do stuff they see in the movies and video games.
Kakoi: If it's neither video games and TV's fault, where are the children getting their violent ideas? People aren't born with the desire to punch and kick people. We have to be exposed to something for someone to get the idea. WHat exactly is exposing these kids?
Morgorath: "Getting someone pregnant doesn't make you a parent". Something one of my friends say. Are we to say it's acceptable to let parental units do as they please when it comes to enforcement of violent video games? I don't think so considering there are many people who have children, but I don't think they are good parents at all. If we were to leave everything that is good to our children up to the parents, I'm sure we'd see many more crack, cocaine and heroine addicts on the streets. A most likely 50 or more percent increase in teen smokers. And the teen pregnancy rate would probably sky-rocket. Merely leaving everything to the parents is a bad idea. There is a certain point where the behavior of many adults as parents is abhorable, and more over is making awful children. Anyways, there is no way for a company to enforce it's rating. Nowadays, video games stores are trying to make as much money as possible...there is no way for them to undercut prices of other stores beyond used games, since video game prices are more or less fixed at a certain price. With that said, they're going to sell to whomever they please since it brings more money into the store. Now if the government were to step in (in the same way with Rated R movies), then we won't have that predicament, and we can at least have the parents in the store determining if the movie is right for them.
http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/2003/05/14/
http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/2003/05/15
This is how I think parents are. A filter for what life is. Parents are meant to raise their children so that they can grow up adjusted and know what is what. If we were to take away the parental filter, what else is there for kids to learn from? We have school, playground kids (which are always a constant source of disinformation), video games and TV. These 4 items are the other forms of interaction that almost all children have (I know there are others, but they aren't in the majority). By removing the parental filter, all other ideas will come in the brains of the child and there will be no one else to tell them that they are bad ideas. So we more or less have a kid who is ripe for the brainwashing from video games and TV. While some parents play their parental filter role well, there are those that don't, and that's when we get chidren that do stuff they see in the movies and video games.
Kakoi: If it's neither video games and TV's fault, where are the children getting their violent ideas? People aren't born with the desire to punch and kick people. We have to be exposed to something for someone to get the idea. WHat exactly is exposing these kids?
Morgorath: "Getting someone pregnant doesn't make you a parent". Something one of my friends say. Are we to say it's acceptable to let parental units do as they please when it comes to enforcement of violent video games? I don't think so considering there are many people who have children, but I don't think they are good parents at all. If we were to leave everything that is good to our children up to the parents, I'm sure we'd see many more crack, cocaine and heroine addicts on the streets. A most likely 50 or more percent increase in teen smokers. And the teen pregnancy rate would probably sky-rocket. Merely leaving everything to the parents is a bad idea. There is a certain point where the behavior of many adults as parents is abhorable, and more over is making awful children. Anyways, there is no way for a company to enforce it's rating. Nowadays, video games stores are trying to make as much money as possible...there is no way for them to undercut prices of other stores beyond used games, since video game prices are more or less fixed at a certain price. With that said, they're going to sell to whomever they please since it brings more money into the store. Now if the government were to step in (in the same way with Rated R movies), then we won't have that predicament, and we can at least have the parents in the store determining if the movie is right for them.