FPS Games & Minors [Nov 30, 2003, 4:34 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Bay Area Lawmaker Wants to Keep Minors from Buying Violent
Video Games (thanks HomeLAN
Fed) has word of an effort in the Bay Area to curtail minors' access to
violent video games that would classify all first-person shooters as adult only
by their very nature. Here's a bit:
Assemblyman Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) plans to introduce legislation this week that would keep minors from purchasing first shooter videogames, where players need to kill in order to advance.
“These first person shooter videogames really teach kids how to stalk and how to maim and torture and kill people,” Yee said. “That’s not what we should be doing for our kids.”
Yee is also a child psychologist, and he said, it is time to “draw the line.”
The bill would penalize retailers and other stores that sell the games to anyone under the age of 17. A second bill would require video game retailers to separate children's games from adult games.
I fully agree that violent games should be rated and access to them restricted to those of a suitable age. I don't think kids should be playing violent games, as they de-sensitise them and give them an inaccurate picture of the world.
However, the reasoning is all wrong. Games do not teach people to stalk, maim, torture and kill. Sure, a lot of them involve killing, some involve stalking... but torture, maiming? Show me one game that involves torturing someone (actually Contract J.A.C.K. has a torture sequence but it's totally removed from reality) and teaches you how to torture someone...
As has been said earlier, games don't teach you anything of value in real word use. Shooting a gun in a game is nothing like shooting a gun in real life. The idea itself is just hilarious to be honest.
However, the reasoning is all wrong. Games do not teach people to stalk, maim, torture and kill. Sure, a lot of them involve killing, some involve stalking... but torture, maiming? Show me one game that involves torturing someone (actually Contract J.A.C.K. has a torture sequence but it's totally removed from reality) and teaches you how to torture someone...
As has been said earlier, games don't teach you anything of value in real word use. Shooting a gun in a game is nothing like shooting a gun in real life. The idea itself is just hilarious to be honest.
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