Comment Re:About time this came up in legislature (Score 1) 100
I think it's highly probable that this proposed law has a lot more to do with pretending to be "doing something" about "the problem" than it does with protecting children from a real threat.
I wish this didn't have to occur and it doesn't but constituents of representatives and senators seem to think that games are causing these problems and want to see them regulated, so thusly, they are being regulated. It shouldn't have to happen, but the way the system is now, there isn't anyone making the rules (and enforcing them) so the government is taking it upon itself. I really don't know what else to say. People feel as if "this problem" has gone unchecked for too long. My personal feelings fall in very close to yours, my parents always made sure I didn't get overexposed to some things they deemed bad for children at a young age, and I don't think I'm any worse off because of that. Nor do I believe those that are allowed to do those things I wasn't are going to grow up to be violent. Media always wants a scapegoat, and right now, games are it, and they will continue to be until something "worse" comes along. People in the '50s were up in arms about this "Rock-and-Roll" that was "of the devil!!" and now, even though now, the music of this day and age has degenerated quite a bit in some respects, the focus has moved on to the next new thing.
I wish this didn't have to occur and it doesn't but constituents of representatives and senators seem to think that games are causing these problems and want to see them regulated, so thusly, they are being regulated. It shouldn't have to happen, but the way the system is now, there isn't anyone making the rules (and enforcing them) so the government is taking it upon itself. I really don't know what else to say. People feel as if "this problem" has gone unchecked for too long. My personal feelings fall in very close to yours, my parents always made sure I didn't get overexposed to some things they deemed bad for children at a young age, and I don't think I'm any worse off because of that. Nor do I believe those that are allowed to do those things I wasn't are going to grow up to be violent. Media always wants a scapegoat, and right now, games are it, and they will continue to be until something "worse" comes along. People in the '50s were up in arms about this "Rock-and-Roll" that was "of the devil!!" and now, even though now, the music of this day and age has degenerated quite a bit in some respects, the focus has moved on to the next new thing.
