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To: Caleb1411; wagglebee; LiteKeeper; MplsSteve
The average 32-year-old man who plays violent video games -- and spends his free hours fantasizing about murdering passersby and roughing up strippers -- is likely to be someone's husband and father. What qualities of character will his wife find when she looks to him for love, steadiness and fidelity?

And when his young son looks to Dad as a role model -- well, that's the problem, isn't it?

2 posted on 05/04/2008 9:40:19 AM PDT by rhema ("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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To: rhema

I agree that it is probably not suitable for kids, but I don’t want to live in a country where the government decides which video games I can or cannot buy.


3 posted on 05/04/2008 9:43:55 AM PDT by Perdogg (Four years of Carter gave us 29 years of Iran; What will Hilabama give us?)
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To: rhema

Hey, man, M & M Enterprises. If there’s a market, fill it. If there’s no market, create an appetite for useless or depraved crap. Where at the Wharton School of Economics do you take a class that finds this to be a bad idea?


7 posted on 05/04/2008 9:47:23 AM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: rhema
Panem et circenses. Never been rivaled for enervating a society.
8 posted on 05/04/2008 9:54:10 AM PDT by Caleb1411 ("These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own." G. K. C)
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To: rhema

my generation grew up on the three stooges.
funny those nonpurists are also willing to ban video games.
what’s next for rino’s freespeech
oh, never mind heir mccain already has that issue covered.


20 posted on 05/04/2008 10:23:48 AM PDT by stockpirate (Be a MAVERICK in the GOP , go against the wishes of our nominee John McCain!)
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To: rhema
The average 32-year-old man who plays violent video games -- and spends his free hours fantasizing about murdering passersby and roughing up strippers -- is likely to be someone's husband and father. What qualities of character will the wife find when she looks to him for love, steadiness and fidelity?....."And when his young son looks to Dad as a role model -- well, that's the problem, isn't it?"

Grand Theft Auto will turn "average" 32-year-old hard working, faithful, loving family men (and moms, women play too) into A MONSTER??? YIKES!!! Where's the label!!!!

So, after reading all this I went on a mission, "obsessively" scouting for a cigarette health Warning Label to in part plagiarize, attach and start the ball rolling.
Suddenly! as if an Omen, what do I find:
"Computer games to get cigarette-style health warnings".

"The report, commissioned by the Prime Minister in response to a growing moral panic about video games, will conclude that they can harm the development of children’s beliefs and value systems and desensitizes them to violence. It will also recommend that retailers who sell video games to anyone under the age rating on the box should face a hefty fine or up to five years in prison".
On Xbox 360 there are parental controls. See Xbox 360 for Dummies.



"Oh, Nanny...Why, I?"

Source: My Obsession with Chess

;)

22 posted on 05/04/2008 10:30:53 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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