Comments on Standing Up for Nothing: Should bad parenting be a crime?

Thanks for commenting, John. Couple of things:Yes,...

2006-11-16T00:49:00.000-06:00

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.

So the parenting could have been better. What happ...

2006-11-15T09:28:00.000-06:00

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?

Holy frick: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/...

2006-10-09T21:26:00.000-05:00

Holy frick: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/09/D8KL9F287.html

very true, after ages seeing lots of crap about *h...

2006-10-02T08:28:00.000-05:00

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.