Hi Bryan, Yeah, I don't know where some of these parents are when these kids are buying or playing some of these games. Then, usually they are the first ones to point the finger at the game rather than little Jonnie's actions. When I was growing up one or both of my parents knew what games I had. Often our Atari 7800 and N.E.S. was right in the living room, and all the games were there as well right next to it. They knew I had Teen Age Mutent Ninja Turtles, Double Dragon, Bad Dudes, Castlevania, etc... However, the arrangement on those consoles was it was family property not just mine. I had rights to play on it, but my mom and sometimes dad would play games they wanted to play on it as well. Perhaps many parents just buy their kid a PS2, Xbox, Game Cube, now days and don't care what he/she is playing on it, and that is a failior to do the parents job.
Bryan Peterson wrote: > I agree. Another example I could use was a time a few years back when my > mother, my sister and I spent some time at a downtown park in Oregon. My > sister's dog was with us and, being a more aggressive breed, she was on > leash. That was also the law, that all dogs in these parks must be kept on > leash. Anyway, there was a guy who had a dog nearby, and his dog wasn't on > any kind of a leash. Well, this dog came running up to where we were > sitting, ignoring the warning from my sister's dog. Well, quite naturally > this guy's dog was bitten, not severely but it was bitten. The owner said he > was seriously considering pressing charges against my sister, in his words > "because you don't control your dog." I'm sorry, but if you don't put your > dog on a leash and it suddenly runs up to another dog, there's the strong > possibility one of them's going to get bit. > The same thing goes for games and the people who play them. If a parent > buys a game for his or her kid without first researching what the game's > about and the rating it carries, especially when the kid is known to have > anger issues, then it's hardly surprising if the kid later kills someone > else. Not that it's the game's fault. It'd be the parent's fault for > providing the media that inspired the murder or, if the parent was unaware > of the kid possessing it, it's the parent's fault for not taking a greater > hand in monitoring what their child was playing, watching or listening to or > reading. I personally think the whole thing is riddiculous. Companies attach > ratings and warnings to their games for a very specific reason. If a parent > chooses to ignore that or to ignore the fact that their child somehow came > into possession of a violent game without their knowledge, then it's the > parent's fault for not taking action. I'm sorry if I seem dispassionate > about this sort of thing but you have to wonder what these parents were > doing when these kids were doing this stuff. Granted I'm sure some of these > parents did actually try to monitor their kids but obviously they weren't > thorough enough. It goes back to the fact that it's not only the game's > fault if someone goes out and beheads someone with a machete. It's the > person's fault for being dim enough to let the game go to their head. > _______________________________________________ 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.
