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Stephen King defends videogame violence
WORDSMITH and writer of scary stories about small town America, Stephen King has slammed moves to ban violent video games.
King said that such a move would be undemocratic and it was up to parents to monitor their children's entertainment.
The writer of Salem's Lot, and the Shining, said that he was no computer game fanboy, but was outraged when he heard that a bill in the state of Massachusetts could ban the sale of violent games to anyone aged under 18.
He said he was miffed when politicians take it upon themselves to play surrogate parents. The results of that are usually disastrous. Not to mention undemocratic.
There are similar rumblings in the United States, Britain and Australia about banning violent games.
King said games only reflected a violence that already existed in the society. He pointed out that there already was a rating system for videogames and banning them was pointless.Kids of today will find them if they want them. µ
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1. Violence is in the nature of man, whether physical (males usually) or psychological (females usually).
2. Living out your violent urges in some virtual world actually decreases agressiveness in Real Life(TM).
3. If you shield your kids from all things violent and evil: how will they defend themselves when you are not around, how will they defend their children when you are not around? It all trickles down to the age old saying: Give a man a fish and he's fed for a day, teach a man to fish and he's fed for a lifetime.
4. Interesting how modern society regards children as some kind of fragile sub-humans that must be protected. Teach your kids to defend themselves. It's what parenting should be about: Preparing kids for life. Shielding them from all things bad is actually doing the opposite.
5. Stop blaming everyone else for YOUR mistakes as a parent.
Hasn't it been shown that it's the deluge of prescription psych-drugs that kids(/adults) are exposed to that causes the issues already?
In that sense banning games is like banning roofs because people on PCP jump off them thinking they can fly.

Oh and Deimios your comment "5. Stop blaming everyone else for YOUR mistakes as a parent." is unwarranted because it's always the politicians and such that complain and blame games and almost never the actual parents.
Some of my best mates and blokes are Duke Nukem!
this would just encourage software piracy.
http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/8858/mariogg7.jpg
99flake's link made me laugh, but seriously, I find that if I get my kids to throw banana skins out from both sides of the car, we can get other cars to skid in all directions - beat that Mario!
PS for American readers.... he's only joking!!