Video game violence has been a topic of arguments and discussion for as long as I can remember. My fellow classmate blogged about this understated issue making interesting points on the subject. Growing up, I remember being told I couldn’t play certain games, similar to the restrictions of movies. As a little kid I didn’t understand these restrictions, and thought they were unfair. However, with age comes a certain realization. I now agree that little kids should not play or experience certain overly dramatized graphic content. I also agree it makes things easier to categorize and control if there is some type of system or scale that can be referred to.
However, I think that the government worries too much about public entertainment. Things start to sound kind of like, “Big Brother” when talk of government controlled entertainment comes up. If a game is too violent for a child, chances are the mother/father /guardian of that child will remove the extreme content from that child’s possession. It is not the role of the government to determine what we do for entertainment, as much as it has no right to decide what we eat. Entertainment time is recreational time; its time reserved for doing whatever a person wants to do.
Pointing blame is another action that I disagree with in full. Blaming others does nothing in the solving of problems. I think the reference that the author makes to Freddic Wertham’s accusation of batman causing homosexuality is hilarious and effectively makes a point about needless accusations. I am also in agreement with the author that being aggressive is in human nature; look at the multitude of wars that have occurred throughout history. Where was blamed placed for human aggression before all of the modern forms of entertainment came in to existence? Where ancient people aggressive because they watched animals fighting for food and territories?
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