Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:38:39 11/17/98
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On November 16, 1998 at 21:04:46, James Robertson wrote: >I disagree with you on every point. Why do we buy violent games? To satisfy our >need to kill or destroy. Why do we buy games with sexual content? To tittilate >us. The reason not to is because our character is changed. Perfectly fine. But a violent game is not necessarily a bad game in an absolute sense, in the way a buggy game is. It is like including a brand of cigarette on a list of bogus products. A smoker might see it there and think that it is a bad cigarette, when the problem is that the reviewer has something against cigarettes in general, and may have put it there because it was a *good* cigarette. >People think that violent TV does not affect them. Then why are there >commercials? > >Ditto for computer games. Your son is being molded by the games he can watch >(but not play). He doesn't inhale! > >You mentioned that you do not "specifically" buy R-rated games. You choose them >for some other reason: I presume for their "fun value"? What price is your or >your son's character that you are willing to sell it for a few hours of fun!? I am being misunderstood here, I think. It is not that I buy the games with sexual content for reasons other than their sexual content, but rather it is that I don't buy them at all. I haven't had to make the choice yet for any reason other than that the types of games I get don't tend to have signficant sexual content. My kid seems fairly normal, although he did holler "Target acquired!" when I told him to go get in the car this morning. bruce
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