Violent Video Games OK...but "R" rated movies NOT? (violent crime, school)
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You can take a 3 year old to see a R rated movie, there is no national standard for not letting children see violence.
I let my son watch R rated movies and play Mortal Kombat with me. But I did the same stuff growing up, I feel fine. He'll be exposed to it sooner or later. I do not let my son watch sex or nudity though.
Its always better to expose the child yourself than let the outside world do it for you.
I let my son watch R rated movies and play Mortal Kombat with me. But I did the same stuff growing up, I feel fine. He'll be exposed to it sooner or later.
I'm sure the Columbine shooters thought they were just fine and normal, too.
Ratings (on anything) should be merely a suggestion so parents understand what they are buying. I'm not exactly sure how I feel (especially as a gamer) with laws in regards to who can buy what games. I grew up back when Mortal Kombat made everyone angry at how gorey it was, LOL, but we grew up just fine. That's because my parents did this weird thing like, talking to us, and explained that ripping someone's head off is not polite.
Parents need to educate themselves on individual games, to be honest. You can have 2 "M" rated games, but they are entirely different as to why they are rated M. One you as parent may be totally against (lots of sex and drug use), but the other you may be OK with (senseless, but entertaining violence)
I guess I never gave it much thought. My parents were parents to me, so I never had to worry about these things. *shrugs*
Wait wait wait... I'm pretty sure Columbine was Marilyn Manson's fault... or did the social cons change their story again?
Focus shifted from violent music to violent video games around the age of DOOM/Mortal Kombat.
It's hilairous, really, to see cavemen jump from media format to media format, blaming the media formats for their issues rather than looking to the actual issues.
Books to radios, radios to movies, then to movies and music, and then a shift to blame video games, which did lull in the light of more violent tv shows, and now in the wake of Duke Nukem Forever and MK9, a huge shift back to video games.
Seriously, if the media was to blame for all these violent outbreaks, there'd be alot less people alive nowadays.
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