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RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I don't think the parents really have control over what their kids do. We were all kids and know just because our parents forbid something doesn't mean we won't find a way.

Alyallen · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:01 pm Post subject:

YoshaMazov · Joined: 10 May 2007 Location: Suwon

It's not realistic to believe parents can control what their children do every hour of the day. To prevent me from embarking on a murderous rampage, my parents never let me have Nintendo or SNES, yet I played violent games nonstop. How? I'd simply go over to a friend's house and play Mortal Combat. While parents certainly need to take an active role in their children's lives, it's impossible to shield them from anything controversial, whether it be video games, sex, or alcohol.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

When I was growing up, I remember my 13-year-old friend managed to get into a movie rated M (14 and up). Would you blame his parents?

Alyallen · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:18 pm Post subject:

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

YoshaMazov · Joined: 10 May 2007 Location: Suwon

But unless they're prepared to prevent their kids from going to a friend's house they will have to accept the fact that their offspring will almost certainly be exposed to questionable material.

Alyallen · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:02 pm Post subject:

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

YoshaMazov · Joined: 10 May 2007 Location: Suwon

I don't think that violent video games cause real violence. I was merely saying that parents can't police their kids' actions 24/7.
Parents certainly should know where their children are at any given time, and they should also take care to meet other parents. However, I feel it would be terribly overprotective for a parent to forbid their child from playing with another child simply because said child has a PS3 with violent video games. Sheltered kids don't always become the most well-adjusted adults.

buffygrrl1 · Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Location: Seoul

Videogames do not kill people. People kill people. Videogames help kids with had and eye-coordination and they also help people get their aggression out while playing and not on other people. I've been a gamer since I was about 9 years old...and I turned out fine Laughing

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

tiger fancini · Joined: 21 Mar 2006 Location: Testicles for Eyes

The point is that kids see this kind of stuff (guns, killings, drugs, theft etc) all around them anyway. All you have to do is turn on the news or pick up a newspaper and its there. I also believe that it has been prevalent in society for a loooong time, and that humans have been indulging in drugs, stealing things and kicking the cr@p out of each other since way back when, certainly before video games were invented. Could it be that these games are a comment on society? I reckon that society influences the games, not vice versa.

safeblad · Joined: 17 Jul 2006

I grew up playing things like mortal combat, streetfighter, streets of rage, duke nukem and later things like grand theft auto, carmageddon...etc (i'm a young 'un)

I grew up watching action movies on TV.

Its not that my parents were irresponsible, the set boundaries, they didnt let me watch things which would disturb me, or movies with violence which was too raw.

At the end of the day they set me a clearly defined moral code which they knew would not be affected by playing games; they understood that i am capable of discerning between video games and reality, they understood that people that are unable to do so are mentally ill.

Yes by all means blame the parents for the violent actions of their children but blame then for not showing love and not setting behavioural boundaries , not for letting them watch fantastical violence on TV or play beat em up games. Its ridiculous.