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.
1. I do not think books/movies/games/whatever are inherently bad, but there is a question of what type of society makes such violent material. In gaming, there is an infinite amount of possibilities...yet we end up killing and shooting stuff the majority of the time.
2. People do have some type of need of basic direction, in my opinion. If everything falls back on the "Why don't people just do it themselves?" argument, why do we have things such as police, laws, traffic lights, rules, etc. That is not to say there is no room for fine tuning nor am I saying this applies to the current argument, but I do think we as a whole still lack the full ability to just be on our own.
Having played games from my earliest years, but hardly a violent person,
Ray
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2. People do have some type of need of basic direction, in my opinion. If everything falls back on the "Why don't people just do it themselves?" argument, why do we have things such as police, laws, traffic lights, rules, etc. That is not to say there is no room for fine tuning nor am I saying this applies to the current argument, but I do think we as a whole still lack the full ability to just be on our own.
Having played games from my earliest years, but hardly a violent person,
Ray
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I really, truly hate my computer!
http://users.ign.com/collection/RayMarden
http://www.guzzlefish.com/collection.php?username=ray_marden
s{I love you, mom.}
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