Illinois vs. video games

[tman_ndsu08]

http://www.technologyreview.com/arti...eg.asp?trk=top

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York) went for the heartstrings on June 20 when he held a press conference to announce his disdain for the soon-to-be-released video game 25 To Life. Among those surrounding the senator was Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolman’s Benevolent Association, and Rose Nemorin, widow of a New York detective killed in the line of duty in 2003.

Last month, the Illinois state legislature passed "Safe Games Illinois," a bill sponsored by Governor Rod Blagojevich that would make it illegal to sell M-rated video games to anyone under the age of 17. Once the governor signs the bill into law, which should happen within 60 days, any retailer who sells an M-rated game to an underage consumer will be hit with a $1,000 fine. What's more, inadequate signage in a store alerting consumers to the law will lead to a $500 fine for the retailer.

This has been bugging me for a while now. The fact that our government is trying to tell us how to live our lives, yet again, it sickening to me.

Here's one word for Illinois and the rest of the country: prohibition.

You morons.

These games are not being created because satan has posessed the programmers and turned them into anti christian doom spewing demons. They're being made because they're in demand! People want to play these games!!! And no little law is going to stop people from doing so.

Damn to hell the entire argument about whether these games should be made or not! People want them. The end. So give them to them before the next Al Capone opens the new speakeasy's chock full of the latest sadistic, violent games.

[castille]

The answer to any restriction on social freedoms will be fast, rapid, and simple: do it illegally.

Remember when Australia banned a number of violent American games? Well, people still brought them, just through less legal means.

[belverron]

*lol* They should do that with books to be consistent. I was reading books that included quite a bit of adult content when I was in middle school. More than I ever saw in a video game.

[tman_ndsu08]

Quote by: castille The answer to any restriction on social freedoms will be fast, rapid, and simple: do it illegally. Remember when Australia banned a number of violent American games? Well, people still brought them, just through less legal means.

Exactly my point.

People are going to do what they want anyway, legal or illegal. Yeah, you might snag a few of them here or there, but you'll never be able to stop a majority.

[oranged]

It's not even bad for kids to play these games, it's sad but true if kids and adults can't do sick twisted stuff in video games, they will do it in real life. Personally I use violent video games as stress relief. Stress is the main reason people go crazy kill other students at school or co-workers at work. I agree that children who are like 8 years old or under might be infulenced by violence in games. Older people though are not at all.