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Quote by: Sbh052 Do you think that if a child grows up playing violent games such as GTA, they will grow up as a killer, or to pick up prostitutes? |
I don't think so. I was playing violent computer games at a similar age, perhaps a year or so older and I have never killed a person or picked up a prostitute or had the urge to.
I was 11 when the first game came out in '97 which was the same year as Postal. I also played games such as Doom and Duke Nukem 3D long before that.
The theory that such games will 'harm' a child is a load of rubbish. Children have been enjoying violent entertainment since violent entertainment has been there to enjoy. For example if it isn't computer games that worry over protective adults, its films, music, TV, books, etc.
Placing games, TV, music, films or books in the firing line for todays problems is simply an excuse for dealing with the real causes for those problems and providing an easy scapegoat.
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Quote by: Gods_Mercenary As I recall the worse swear we used regularly was hell or some other version of it, and that was only the troublemakers. |
Then you obviously went to a very sheltered school. At that kind of age, I and my peers would gleefuly lambast each other with whatever cuss we had seen when we had watched Diehard or some other mindless action flick that children do so adore. Especially if the child thinks that their parents don't realise they have watched it. If not that scenario, then most children will undoubtedly have heard such language from older children, be it at school or wherever.
it strikes me that many adults have a very detached, naive and indeed patronising view of children; blissfuly unaware that their little angels are in fact quite happily foul mouthed when they aren't around.