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 am only qualified to comment one one peron's experiences, and thats my own.
I saw Natural Born Killers when I was around 12 years old. That film was more brutal than almost any video game out there. Also, around the same time, I saw Lepa Sela Lepo Gore, which is a Yugoslavian film about the civil war during the early 90's. Its was pretty brutal but even more than that it was just "disturbing". I couldn't sleep for 2 days after that, but I got over it. For just about my whole life, thankfully, my parents have allowed me to be exposed to all the bad stuff in the world so that I could learn from it. They trusted me enough to not censor me from pron and killing and politics and stuff. And I think that was certainly a factor in my upbringing, which is to say that it was a positive factor. Becuase of that, I am now a complete person, who can judge right and wrong for himself. In the real world, I can make the tough choices, because I was allowed to choose even from an early age. You're not going to get kids to "Say No to Drugs" by making them watch a bunch of fancy commercials. That decision, that inner strength can only come from your parents (or whoever you grew up around). Which brings me sort of to the conclusion about all this:
The point is not to limit children's exposure to bad influences. The point, the way to raise a good human being, is to expose them to good ones.Kids look up to their parents for an example, and if that example is good, than you will show them how to live their life, what to strive for. The best thing a parent can give their child is an example. And if you do that, no amount of "negative influence" can erode that.
This comment was edited on Nov 30, 18:43.
I saw Natural Born Killers when I was around 12 years old. That film was more brutal than almost any video game out there. Also, around the same time, I saw Lepa Sela Lepo Gore, which is a Yugoslavian film about the civil war during the early 90's. Its was pretty brutal but even more than that it was just "disturbing". I couldn't sleep for 2 days after that, but I got over it. For just about my whole life, thankfully, my parents have allowed me to be exposed to all the bad stuff in the world so that I could learn from it. They trusted me enough to not censor me from pron and killing and politics and stuff. And I think that was certainly a factor in my upbringing, which is to say that it was a positive factor. Becuase of that, I am now a complete person, who can judge right and wrong for himself. In the real world, I can make the tough choices, because I was allowed to choose even from an early age. You're not going to get kids to "Say No to Drugs" by making them watch a bunch of fancy commercials. That decision, that inner strength can only come from your parents (or whoever you grew up around). Which brings me sort of to the conclusion about all this:
The point is not to limit children's exposure to bad influences. The point, the way to raise a good human being, is to expose them to good ones.Kids look up to their parents for an example, and if that example is good, than you will show them how to live their life, what to strive for. The best thing a parent can give their child is an example. And if you do that, no amount of "negative influence" can erode that.
This comment was edited on Nov 30, 18:43.
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