Talk about a kick in the nuts

[morgorath]

kakomu, Ok quick little history lesson,

One I agreed with the majority of your first essay. I just pointed out that using a double standard in your opening paragraph doesn't help you proving a point.

Now you say that

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.

Wait a minute let me get this straight that for 1900 years we have been doing this wrong. I mean who was raising children back in 1920... There were no computers, video games.... It was parents, teachers and the community. If someone was a bad apple... it was due to lack of proper parents and the community he grew up in. There was no movie or video game to blame it on... These are excuses we as a people have made up for bad and improper "Parental filter"

Look I think your point is sound "no parents and the sponges (kids) will soak up what ever is giving them input" Yea your right, but does that make the games at fault... I'll put it this way there is an apple and a candy bar in the kitchen. Child walks in will eat the candy or the apple. Let?s say he eats the apple. No problem life goes on. But if eats the candy bar here is what happens...

The right reasons he ate the candy bar. Person with a brain in his head says, "Well the mom wasn't around to tell him no, Eat the apple."

The wrong reason from a complete BAKA! "No there should be a ban on candy to children; if there was no candy being produced the child couldn?t have eaten the candy.

That is what is pissing me off. Oh and the rated "R" thing read JJ's post there is no standing law, just a few state laws. Those are guide lines for responsible parents on what there children are watching. The way it get's enforced is at the ticket counter. If a theater lets minors into a movie the theater gets razzed by the higher ups. What you think the law handcuffs the ticket selling guy...

Look the reason the video games are under attack is because of places like Wal-mart that track what games get sold, report to the higher ups, and even fire employees for selling games to minors. Hell you can't even buy an uncensored music CD in Wal-mart. Oh and look here

You said

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.

I said

Rule 3: Catch all those selling games or renting them should always ensure that when the sell/rent a game that it is going into liable adult hands. Rated M sold to someone 18 or older.... enough said...

Aren't we saying the same thing...?

Oh and kakoi your right I have seen children violent from the day they were born. Kicking, punching, & biting there own parents...