We live in a country of two income families with unsupervised latchkey kids for whom the videogame is babysitter. We live in a country where parents simply do not have the time or energy or razzamataz to contradict media images. That is reality.
To control the moral content of media images parents must work together through the medium of censorship.
That is fundamental folly of libertarianism. Since 1965 society no longer has the power to censor media images (i.e, nudity, obscenity, the end of the Hayes Code, etc) or control negative behavior through ostracism or disgrace. So society asks the state to do what it no longer can.
As I said earlier, my parents locked up the Atari. My dad locked up the cable box. They could do it, why can't parents nowadays? I wasn't allowed to go to anyone's house unless my parents met their parents.
Perhaps. But why should my life be made kid-friendly due to the inability of other parents to take care of their kids?
To control the moral content of media images parents must work together through the medium of censorship.
San Andreas sold 2 million copies in its first week. It seems that the people of this country are voting with their pocketbooks against censorship.