Hi Bryan, I don't think anyone in living memory can forget the coffee case. To me that is simply another sign of the times that many people are unwilling to stand up and admit they made a mistake and take responcibility for it. If they burn themselves it's the other guys fault, if they buy a game, and then kill someone afterward it was the games fault. Oh, no. It couldn't be my actions that did that." What it really boils down to is an excuse to get money or to try and get out of trouble. One of the reasons there is so much research in to how violent games effects children, weather child abuse creates tomorrows killers, is the killers can walk in to a court of law, say that he/she was influenced by this material, get a reduced sentence or a stay in a mental hospital, and out in a few years saying he/she was treated. Whatever happened to you did it, you wanted to do it, and now you are going to pay the maximum price? Sorry no excuses for bad behavior excepted. I know my parents sure didn't buy my excuses for bad grades, fighting at school, or whatever the infraction was I was getting punished for. If I did I got punished, and I learned not to do it again, or at least not to do it that often.
Bryan Peterson wrote: > This is way off the topic of games but it bears on this discussion. I don't > know if any of you heard on the news quite a while back about that lady that > sued a McDonalds because she spilled a cup of hot coffee in her lap. She > said they didn't tell her it was hot. In the words of the great Bill > Engvall, here's your sign. I would think that the coffee was supposed to be > hot. That's what people generally look for when they order a cup of coffee > at a restaurant. Nobody told you to put the hot cup between your legs, where > it was almost guaranteed to spill, particularly in a car, which is where > that woman was at the time. > The same thing applies, though differently, in games. Granted there are > people who kill people because of the games they play but that does not in > any way mean that every single person is going to behave the same way. > That's why they have the rating system. It's the responsibility of the > buyer, or the buyer's parents whatever the situation may be, to look at the > rating and decide based on that information what to do. > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
