here we go again. you people do realize its up to the PARENTS of the children to "protect" their kids from the games/music/internet porn (insert what you personally dont like here) & NOT our govt right? govt was originally designed to protect us from other countries, etc. NOT regulate what games/music my or your child likes... its people with very little common sense that are afraid b/c they dont realize whats going on so they want the govt to "protect" them... geez... if u are a good parent & TEACH your OWN child what u think it needs then there is no problem because they know not to do dumb stuff from games or music... if u think there shoudl be someone regulating what we can buy then..... bleh.... laters, im off to go drive a tank around town, i did it in a game once so i must be able to in real life...
Yeah, fredejo, who are "you people", and why is it that, in your opinion "here we go again?" Comments like that tend to inhibit members from further posting. Please explain.
For the record, fredejo, I, or do I think anyone in this thread, did not write that parents do not have the duty to rear their children, and supervise their activities. Nowhere is that written. Reference please (in this thread).
And freedom does
not mean we have access to whatever we want, whenever we want, at any cost. It is the government's duty to safeguard us from certain things. Now, I can not speak directly to this game...I do not know it. But we are diametrically opposed if you are suggesting that
anything can be marketed for children, and it is then up to the parents catching them (in the act of purchase or use). These are children we're talking about, and there are limitations on what they are allowed to see, hear, feel, touch, eat and drink. Yes, there are. I do not presume to have that short list in my pocket. But I absolutely agree that there must be some limitation on the amount and degree of sex and violence that is marketed to children. The lack of these constraints does not define freedom...or lessen it. The lack of any governmental control and purview makes a parent's job virtually impossible (in this day and age of free flowing information on the internet, and where children have an exhorbitant amount of money designated for purely conspicuous consumption). And you are wrong that it is enough to simply teach one's children well, and then entrust to them all that is available. They still need to be watched, and safeguarded, and governed.
