Should bad parenting be a crime?
In yet another example of our bizarre culture in which companies are held responsible for how other people use their products:
Violent video games don't kill people, kids whose parents let their video game playing get out of control kill people.
Family members of three people slain by a 14-year-old on newsman Sam Donaldson's New Mexico ranch sued the makers of the video game ''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City'' on Monday, claiming the crimes would not have occurred had the teenager never played the violent game.Here's an idea: the crimes would not have occured had the teenager never been allowed to play the violent game in the first place.
Violent video games don't kill people, kids whose parents let their video game playing get out of control kill people.
posted by Seth at 2:30 PM
5 Comments:
very true, after ages seeing lots of crap about *how bad video games are*, this is one of the first true things i read. ppl should stop the bs and admit that killers would kill rather a video game is there or not.
So the parenting could have been better. What happens when your kid goes to his friend's house and partakes? Should parents have to screen all the parents of their children's friends? Let's be honest, in today's information age it is hard for parents to constantly monitor what their kids are doing. Perhaps better enforcement of age verification when purchasing the games?
As for DNS: ppl should stop the bs and admit that killers would kill rather a video game is there or not.
Perhaps, but most people don't get the idea of killing out of nowhere.
When your goal is to kill for six hours a day it seems like a fair assumption that some of that mentality might leak into the subconscious.
Of course with the war in Iraq it isn't just video games that condone or encourage killing is it?
Thanks for commenting, John. Couple of things:
Yes, it is unreasonable for parents to monitor every activity of their children. If kids become killers, it is for a plethora of reasons, and perhaps violent games are a contributer. But the overall childhood is (some of) what shapes a person, not a specific afternoon playing shoot-em-ups. I will probably let my (future) kids play video games to a certain degree, because I will be confident that my child-raising will be a holistic approach that will teach them to live right in all aspects of their lives.
As for better age verification, I support that.
As for your Iraq comment, it sure smacks like moral equivalence to me.
perhaps misallowing games, would have get them killed..logically?
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