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.
Its more about how kids/people process information. Its certianly possible without any supervision to process morality, a kid could think its ok to act out violently when not threatened.
This argument has been used with books, moives, music and now games, yet all of these are refelections of our socities of humanity.
Of course a kid could, just like a kid only exposed to religious zealots would think its ok to kill Medical Dr.'s here in the US, or Israeli's if they Muslems, its all around us, of course only in the extreme fringes. So it is possible.
The most important aspect is education from a social/moral (that doesnt mean religion) context.
If in our society, parnets are too overwhelmed trying to survive then its up to the government to fund educational awarness for kids.
I could see it for kids under 12, but it get touchy after that 17 is almost old enough to be sent to war to kill people for REAL.
Thou it is incressingly tougher, exponentialy the longer socieity waits to teach these things like morals.
Of course many parnets say they dont want thier kids learning morals form the goverment (ie schools) but it is becoming extremely obvious that many (certianly not all) parents arent/cant/wont teach there kids. Even if its only 25% that translates to huge numbers.
This argument has been used with books, moives, music and now games, yet all of these are refelections of our socities of humanity.
Of course a kid could, just like a kid only exposed to religious zealots would think its ok to kill Medical Dr.'s here in the US, or Israeli's if they Muslems, its all around us, of course only in the extreme fringes. So it is possible.
The most important aspect is education from a social/moral (that doesnt mean religion) context.
If in our society, parnets are too overwhelmed trying to survive then its up to the government to fund educational awarness for kids.
I could see it for kids under 12, but it get touchy after that 17 is almost old enough to be sent to war to kill people for REAL.
Thou it is incressingly tougher, exponentialy the longer socieity waits to teach these things like morals.
Of course many parnets say they dont want thier kids learning morals form the goverment (ie schools) but it is becoming extremely obvious that many (certianly not all) parents arent/cant/wont teach there kids. Even if its only 25% that translates to huge numbers.
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