[holymoly]

these games shouldn't be produced at all.

Why? Are you one of those people who blame games for bad behavior? Do you also blame firearms for so-called "gun crimes"?

FYI: I sometimes play "Carmageddon." I have yet to be overcome with an urge to drive down the sidewalk, running over little old ladies with walkers.

the rating is not preventing from abuse

I don't know what you mean by "abuse", but no ratings system can compensate for bad parenting.

but supporting it by making the game more than ever interesting for kids. it's absolutely hypocritical to rely on the impact of ratings.

The ratings aren't there for the kids, they're there as a guide for for the PARENTS, who should monitor what games their children do and do not play.

[Sam the Sham]

There is a lot of pious talk about how it is parental responsibility to keep games like these away from their kids, not "censorship" (as if censorship weren't the medium by which parents collectively control the moral content of media images).

Get real.

Parents cannot shield their kids from the media. They cannot shield their kids from other kids who have totally permissive parents who let them have anything they want (you can bet that every kid knows someone who has GTA). That is the reality of the latchkey kid whose parents see the videogame as an acceptable alternative to having their unsupervised kids hanging out on the streets.

If you libertarians want to live in a society where millions of young people have absorbed their life lessons from GTA:San Andreas because you think that it is "free speech" to be protected at all costs, you are foolishly unrealistic.