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.
It is so about taking kids out of the world. Maybe I was just a mature kid, but I've been killing virtual people since before I was 10, and I was well aware of the fact that it would be a bad thing to do it in real life. I've never been in a fight, much less a shoot-out.
Let the kids play the games and make sure they know it's not like real life, because they're going to be playing them anyway, even if it's not in your house. They'll play them at the arcade, they'll play them at a friend's house, and maybe then they won't be equipped to deal with it.
It's the parent's responsibility to teach the kid right from wrong and prepare them to deal with the real world, not necessarily to be super-invasive to the point of creating an overly-shelterd child. It's, like, all about balance an' shit, yo.
This comment was edited on Nov 30, 18:28.
Let the kids play the games and make sure they know it's not like real life, because they're going to be playing them anyway, even if it's not in your house. They'll play them at the arcade, they'll play them at a friend's house, and maybe then they won't be equipped to deal with it.
It's the parent's responsibility to teach the kid right from wrong and prepare them to deal with the real world, not necessarily to be super-invasive to the point of creating an overly-shelterd child. It's, like, all about balance an' shit, yo.
This comment was edited on Nov 30, 18:28.
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