Banning Violent Games Tops Conservative's To Do List

[Cursed Frogurt]

If she was actually conservative (like myself), she would tighten the gov't budget instead of wasting everyone's money.

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

Another political party blaming video games... fuck them.

 

[Riff Moonraker]

Alright, I'm going to nip this in the bud here: ONE CRAZY ***** DOES NOT REPRESENT ALL OF CONSERVATISM. STOP DOING THAT ESCAPIST.

I just came from Teamliquid where evidently all Texans are crazy because we don't like a fairly abusive new statute the EPA is trying to cram down our throats, I've had enough of political misrepresentation and ignorance today.

Agreed. I am a conservative, too, but this is a case where the parents need to be doing THEIR jobs.

 

[GonzoGamer]

This lady does seem to support ideas that go against some of the most basic Conservative ideals but so do most politicians that call themselves "conservative." the fact is that the American right wing is no longer conservative. They've actually become more wasteful than the liberals.

It seems that the only thing the right wing wants to do any more is force their moral agenda on everyone. Even when that goes against their agenda of personal responsibility.

They're obviously not interested in cutting spending, conserving resources, or streamlining government and those were the reasons anybody kept them around.

I'm a little conservative myself to tell you the truth, it's just there are no actual conservative politicians left. Sometimes I feel like Teddy Roosevelt was the last true Republican.

I like what you're saying here, conservatism has changed significantly since the era of Roosevelt and Wilson. What I'd like to know is (without making this an argument but more of an honest question) how would you define conservatism?

Like you, I'm also a bit of a conservative. However I believe that there are many different strands of conservative so it's quite possible for you, me, and Mr. Limbaugh to all be conservative and disagree in different ways.

I mean conservative literally. I think Republicans should be cautious, and careful to conserve our tax dollars, our resources, and they should discourage legislation that interferes with the lives of the common citizen. I guess I would be a libertarian if those guys weren't always bat-shit-nuts. Mind you there are a lot of liberal ideals I value as well: I believe in personal responsibility but I also think we have a responsibility to our fellow citizens who are less fortunate.

I most definitely do not prescribe to Limbaugh's perspective on conservative: all those political pundits seem to put conservative values on hold if a politician on their side is doing the same. I'm more likely to agree with someone like Jon Stewart who makes fun of the Right and the Left because the politicians on bothsides (lets face it) are retarded.

 

[DarkRyter]

I would think there would be other things on the top of a conservative's to do list.

Like, protecting America from communists. And reinstating Reagonomics.

Agh, I really have no idea what conservatives do beyond that.

 

[OWENR22]

So she's saying children shouldn't be allowed to buy adult video games. What exactly is the problem here? You're making a mountain out of a molehill. This is not a big deal. Stop worrying about it.

How about this for a resolution: Stop getting so upset whenever a politician says anything about videogames.

 

[Wharrgarble]

I can't even state how much I loathe this woman. Every time she opens her mouth... Ugh. She's determined to take the United States back over a hundred years progress. She's a joke.

 

[Yomandude]

Ignorance and stupidity have no excuse. They certainly have no place in a government position.
Nuff said.

 

[silversnake4133]

I think they have more important things to worry about rather than trying to cover for shitty parents. How about we do this? A license to breed and raise children. You and your spouse go to a class to learn how to raise a child. You have to pass three exams to be allowed to have kids and must be of a certain IQ level to gain admittance. There! I just made your problems of violent videogames and other media totally negligible.

Well, that would be a very hard law to enforce though since most of the "parents" of this day and age are still in high school. People are going to have unprotected sex whether the government likes it or not.

As for the original topic, I must say that I do feel sorry for the parents in these kinds of arguments. Why? Because they're always the targets of many hate flames unfairly warranted through how their kid behaves around others. Yeah, it is the parent(s) responsibility to raise their children, but what if they can't for a good portion of their kid(s)' lives? Ever heard of latch key kids? In this day and age, parents actually have to work long hours in order to scrape together a comfortable living for not only themselves but their children as well. And ever since the 1970s video games and television have mentally raised children. However, in today's media, video games are the king of the crop, and what kind of games are often advertised the most? Violent, flashy, and "intense" games. I'm serious, look through any gaming magazine, or website and count how many advertised games list "violence" as a staple for their rating.

Now, these latch key kids can range from elementary to high school level children, and each child is susceptible to the media since it's fricken EVERYWHERE. All the media wants to do is sell products. Think back to when you were a kid, what did you think about, what was cool to you? What was the "in" thing? The current trend? The trend in video games anymore is "flashy, realistic, and gritty". Kids are actually very easy to understand, they follow trends. It's called peer pressure. You're not considered "cool" or "one of the group" until you confide with the trend, and buy or partake in what is popular at the time. We all went through it, so we know what it entitles.

Now, I'm not trying to defend parents or anything, because I have seen first hand what many employees of gaming stores are talking about where oblivious or ignorant parents buy mature games for their pre-teens. All I'm saying is that not all of the blame for this argument should be thrown into the faces of all parents. Yes it is the parent's responsibility to instill in their children the difference between right and wrong, but it should also be the child's responsibility to honor the knowledge that their elders have passed onto them by choosing to do (or not do) something because it is right, not because it is the popular thing to do.

So all in all, kids, you have to help your parents out sometimes too. After all, they gave you the most precious gift of all: Life.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

One word. Who?

 

[dystopiaINC]

in response to this i post this

http://www.cspan.org/Events/Supreme-Court-Oral-Argument--Schwarzenegger-v-Entertainment-Merchants/19684-1/

 

[Macgyvercas]

Now, I'm a Conservative myself in many ways, but these people like her are all nuts and undereducated in this subject matter. I can't wait until the gaming generation takes over political offices.

Again, the parents need to do their fucking job.

That will be a glorious day when we take over and reverse all this asshattery.

And, yes. Parents do need to be accountable for their kids and not pin the responsibilty on the government.

 

[Scde2]

Ugh..."arcade-playing"? What's that?

"Discriminate against the Boy Scout"?
So it should be illegal to not do business with a discriminatory organization?

Just die already you old fascist *****.

 

[Invader7]

Demand small and limited government.

Demand Government ban gay marriage, abortion, and the sale of violent games to minors.

Troll elsewhere, troll.

 

[Denmarkian]

The scary thing is I kind of agree with her. Don't let the little kids buy or rent ultra-violent games without their parents' say-so? I kind of like that. Just so long as it doesn't get people trying to censor games aimed at my demographic, anyway.

Yeah, that's how things are supposed to be working already. Apart from several spoiler gaffes, the ESRB has been doing a perfectly fine job rating what games have content acceptable for consumption by various age groups.

There is absolutely no need for legislation about this, it will not help anything by forcing the federal government to audit stores to make sure they are not selling certain games violent games to a certain age group minors.

If you want to talk about the ridiculous dichotomy of the Right-wing movement's stances on small government, but demanding legislation on social issues like this; the clear distinction is that the Right-wing political movement wants the power to establish their social disposition as law.

They want to limit the government's ability to oversee the things they do, good or bad, because they see what they do as only good; and they want to limit the government's ability to assist people of other value-sets because that would give the other people the opportunity to be successful outside of the Right-wing mindset.

 

[Riff Moonraker]

I can't even state how much I loathe this woman. Every time she opens her mouth... Ugh. She's determined to take the United States back over a hundred years progress. She's a joke.

Who? Nancy Pelosi?

 

[Hman121]

It's getting very tiring to see people with decrepid ideals still hold offices without understanding both sides of the argument. Sure, there are games that are made that I would not let my future son/daughter play, but some monumental and/or revolutionary games get stuck with the Mature label, like Bioshock or Metal Gear Solid series. It's a shame that some people keep their blinders on and get rewarded for saying "Everyone's wrong except me!"

 

[Orange643]

This just proves that there's morons on both sides of the political spectrum. I'm a white christian male, conservative/libertarian politically, but i'm against ALL censorship.