Stupidest man on the earth

[Slaiv]

I'm pissed for many reasons. He blames the video game industry and sides with the parents, yet in many cases it's the parent who is at fault. There are rating systems in place, and they are pretty much strictly enforced now. The only way that kids play these games is when their parents buy them for them. There is a fundamental problem with these ratings, however - if the children's parents will not purchase the game for him, then they can always go to their friends home's and play it. The problem here is that the kid's friend's parent's are being irresponsible by buying them the game when they're younger than the age.

 

At any rate, Jack Thompson is a senile angel.

[Tammo_Korsai]

Daft littile *censored*, he's obiuosly never played a video game in his life.

[Icefiddell]

Sure there have been certain incidents where video games have caused people to do terrible things.

 

What i dont understand is why the parents souly blame video games, because lets face it these kids where already mentally unbalanced. The video game just tipped them over the edge and gave them ideas, you cant just go from a happy child to a instant murderer.

[Chaosmaker]

I also think its partly the parents fault considering they let there young kids play games like GTF which I'll say right now if not suited for kids under 13...

[KzinistZerg]

Pah! I'd like for him to tell me Tetris is a murder game. And Diamonds, and compu-Solitare, Freecell, Minesweeper, Hearts... You get my point. :laugh2:

 

As for the guns thing... I'm not going to touch THAT leetle topic with a ten foot pole, due to the fact that it's more touchy/explosive than nitro-glycerine...

[Zmid]

Maybe I agree with him that GTA and Manhunt go a bit too far.

 

I agree that these games go too far - for kids. This is essentially what he says, but it seems to me that his actions do not agree with his words. For example, pushing for an AO rating for GTA in the US. Unless I've got hold of the wrong end of the stick, this would be, in essence, a virtual banning of the game, with the only places that would likely stock it being the odd porn shop here and there.

 

But he generalises too much

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It's not even that he just generalises too much, quite often, he's just plain wrong. Some examples - on his StopKill website, it says

 

The incredibly violent Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, made by Take-Two Interactive of New York City

 

Erm, it wasn't. It was made by a subsidiary of Take 2 by the name of Rockstar North, based in Edinburgh in Scotland. Perhaps he's trying to say this because he knows any lawsuit brought against Rockstar North under Scottish law would be laughed out of court?

 

Another one:

 

In this game you have sex with a prostitute and then kill her grotesquely to get your money back and win the game faster.

 

Nope, sorry. This is something you can do, if you so choose, but it has zero impact on how fast you win the game. In fact, it could even be said that it makes you win the game slower, because you have to take the time out of doing the missions and what-not to do this.

 

 

Another quote from this website would really make me laugh, if I didn't think he was deadly serious:

 

I am trying to protect our freedoms. How so? When the next Columbine happens and the perpetrators are proven to be copycatters of adult-rated violent entertainment, then the government, driven by parental concern, really will contract freedom for all Americans. Safety will trump freedom.

 

So you're trying to protect the freedoms of Americans by...eliminating those freedoms? If someone can make sense of that, please let me know.

[mostafa_187]

White Wolf, sorry to get off of topic, but the US government already has a law/act in place that does that... The Patriot Act- Makes it so the US gov. can place taps on phones, search houses, buildings, and people, hold people without reasonable cause, and subsiquently send them away to jail without a trial, if they want.

 

Manhunt and GTA do go to far for children. And yes it is the parents responsibility to censor the things that their children play/watch/do. But if he wants to basically ban video games, then he would have to ban all forms of Television entertainment, and almost every site on the internet. Children can see worse thing on the evening news than some(alot) of things that you can do in Video Games. Not a day goes by that you dont hear about someone killing another, and then described in great detail.

 

No child is going to just snap because of a video game, trust me, I know, I've been playing the worst of the worst since they started making Video Games, and generally, I'm normal. Yea, I break the occasional law, Drive Drunk, whatever. But you dont see me going around killing people left and right, raping hookers, blowing people up with a Rocket launcher bigger than I am or hacking people up with a chainsaw. The truth is, if a child cant seperate what happens in a video game from real life, then that child shouldnt have been allowed to play in the first place. It's not anything mind boggling, you hold a controler, there is a box infront of you, your watching a TV, fairly easily seperated from real life if you ask me.

 

In the end, what it all comes to, is the parents. If you cant control what your child is doing no more than 10 feet away from you, then you dont deserve the resposibility to raise a child.

 

Oh, Video game Traders would sell a game with an AO rating, specially if it was GTA. Plus, you've got the internet. That is all.