09-01-2007, 02:58 PM
Videogames are killers, of course. Games make us walk out of our houses, steal a car, run over anybody we see. They make us crash the car into a wall repeatedly and then we get out and chainsaw the car to bits.
Games are games, therefore they are not real, we do NOT act like that.
It isn't just our kind of games, either. If the want to stop all videogames, then surely that means V-Tech (a leading company in televisual stimulation in young children) would be sent bankrupt, as those are games as well. The government don't seem to realize that they're pushing the public at large in every direction, except forward. They want to cut obesity, which requires children going outside and exercising. Unfortunately, most children that do that usually hang around bus stops and phone boxes smoking and generally acting the fools. The government want to stop that, but as far as I know, nothing has been done about that situation.
Being a child is meant to be about learning, and having fun. But they can do neither the way that the government are acting. They don't want them to play, even though playing is often learning. I doubt I would be the same person I am now if I didn't play games when I was younger, as most of you probably feel.
Next, videogames are "The spawn of Satan". They don't look like it. Tell me honestly how many videogames you've seen where the aim of the game is to do the devil's bidding. To act on the devil's orders and kill/maim/murder/destroy or whatever else anything that stops you from completing those orders. I can think of perhaps one, and I don't even know if it's even a real game, or a parody.
In some ways, it all goes back to the Manhunt case a few years ago, when a teenager murdered his 12 year old friend in a way he had seen on the game. Of course, the game was to blame, and everybody decided to march against it. Nobody cared that the game in question was owned by the 12 year old, nor the fact nobody bothered to test the teenager for signs of a mental problem which could lead to him not being able to discern reality from the game. As such, the game was removed from store shelves across America, and the UK, I think.
The whole idea stinks of political manouvering to get votes. Sorry to rant on.
Games are games, therefore they are not real, we do NOT act like that.
It isn't just our kind of games, either. If the want to stop all videogames, then surely that means V-Tech (a leading company in televisual stimulation in young children) would be sent bankrupt, as those are games as well. The government don't seem to realize that they're pushing the public at large in every direction, except forward. They want to cut obesity, which requires children going outside and exercising. Unfortunately, most children that do that usually hang around bus stops and phone boxes smoking and generally acting the fools. The government want to stop that, but as far as I know, nothing has been done about that situation.
Being a child is meant to be about learning, and having fun. But they can do neither the way that the government are acting. They don't want them to play, even though playing is often learning. I doubt I would be the same person I am now if I didn't play games when I was younger, as most of you probably feel.
Next, videogames are "The spawn of Satan". They don't look like it. Tell me honestly how many videogames you've seen where the aim of the game is to do the devil's bidding. To act on the devil's orders and kill/maim/murder/destroy or whatever else anything that stops you from completing those orders. I can think of perhaps one, and I don't even know if it's even a real game, or a parody.
In some ways, it all goes back to the Manhunt case a few years ago, when a teenager murdered his 12 year old friend in a way he had seen on the game. Of course, the game was to blame, and everybody decided to march against it. Nobody cared that the game in question was owned by the 12 year old, nor the fact nobody bothered to test the teenager for signs of a mental problem which could lead to him not being able to discern reality from the game. As such, the game was removed from store shelves across America, and the UK, I think.
The whole idea stinks of political manouvering to get votes. Sorry to rant on.