Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 10:26:24 11/16/98
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On November 16, 1998 at 13:06:33, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On November 16, 1998 at 09:58:47, James Robertson wrote: > >>On November 16, 1998 at 01:06:10, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >> >>>I can see how a list of buggy software might help people out, but why bitch and >>>moan about vulgar language and nudity? There are any number of programs w/o >>>either, why not promote a little diversity? > >>Perhaps (just maybe) the people here are decent. Ever thought of that? > >I'm not. I buy a wide variety of computer games. Violence has always been a >part of computer entertainment titles, and this doesn't particularly bother me. >Personally I don't go out of my way to get titles that contain sexual themes, >but occasionally you find a game that has some of that, too. And as a parent of >a five year old kid who likes to play games, and who likes to watch me play >games that he can't play yet, I have to be careful what kind of language come >out of the speakers, if only to avoid getting in big trouble with my wife. >Occasionaly you'll hear a "hell","damn", or perhaps a little worse, and one >phrase from Mech Commander, "That's me knocking, butthead!", delights my kid to >no end and is eventually going to get me in big trouble. > >If violence is a problem in video games or in the movies or music or society in >general, fine, there's that issue, but I totally don't buy the argument that >chess is somehow sacred. I think that KK's comments about Chess Maniac Five >Billion constitute KK's opnion, and are probably not the foundation of a wide >reaching consensus regarding keeping chess free of the things that used to be >banned from comic books. > >I think it is a marketplace issue, meaning buy what you want. > >I like the system of having a little warning on the outside of the box, which >lets me make a choice without someone else thinking they can make it for me. > >bruce While I agree in principle with your liberalism Bruce, as you get older you will realize that since there is a time and place for everything, chess is not that time or place for vulgarity or nudity. I have listened to others who have the same viewpoints as yours and I can't help thinking of our desensitizing to the violence that has taken place in society. We in Canada for the most part abhor the gun culture in the U.S. and some other countries but even here we see increasing desensitizing to violence. That is a slippery slope towards madness. Young people (males mostly) have always been attracted to war and violence ( witness the eager volunteers for the 1st and 2nd World wars and the mass audiences for professional fake wrestling ), but do we have to put up with violence in a chess game? -- Komputer Korner
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