If there's one thing I never understood in the gaming world is how people seem to not make any sense at all regarding their "stance" on issues. They just can't seem to decide what the hell do they want...
Why is it that we have Counter Strike servers that enforce a strict "no swear rule" because of "minors playing the game"? What's the logic behind THAT? It's perfectly ok for a minor to spend 3 hours in a row playing a game where he kills his fellow man without blinking, but god forbid he'll have to be "exposed" to words like "fuck" or "slut", words NOBODY has EVER heard since they joined school. So the child's mature enough to handle murder but god forbid he's expose to WORDS.
Why do we have people constantly griping about blood and gore in movies and videogames? Is it really better if your kid thinks swinging a machete at full speed at his friend's face will do nothing but a slashing sound and knock him down for 20 seconds?
Why is sex such a huge deal when violence is accepted as quintessential to games today? Is a video depicting a part (or parts) of perfectly normal human anatomy every healthy human will see at some point, worst to a kid's development than pretending he's an assassin?
What's the logic behind these kind of things? As much as I twist and turn to try to wrap my brain around it, I can't...
Personally I think education is the answer, not censorship, as all censorship does is breath ignorance and interest in the subject... But regardless... It's just...incongruous... If you accept that brutalizing your fellow man with a variety of house hold objects is perfectly acceptable, how can you, in your right mind, consider blood to suddenly be inappropriate?
I can't make sense of this...and it happens a lot...Am I the only one to think these people are all hypocrites...or just insane?
tl:dr : People don't make any damn sense. Discuss.
Why is it that we have Counter Strike servers that enforce a strict "no swear rule" because of "minors playing the game"? What's the logic behind THAT? It's perfectly ok for a minor to spend 3 hours in a row playing a game where he kills his fellow man without blinking, but god forbid he'll have to be "exposed" to words like "fuck" or "slut", words NOBODY has EVER heard since they joined school. So the child's mature enough to handle murder but god forbid he's expose to WORDS.
Why do we have people constantly griping about blood and gore in movies and videogames? Is it really better if your kid thinks swinging a machete at full speed at his friend's face will do nothing but a slashing sound and knock him down for 20 seconds?
Why is sex such a huge deal when violence is accepted as quintessential to games today? Is a video depicting a part (or parts) of perfectly normal human anatomy every healthy human will see at some point, worst to a kid's development than pretending he's an assassin?
What's the logic behind these kind of things? As much as I twist and turn to try to wrap my brain around it, I can't...
Personally I think education is the answer, not censorship, as all censorship does is breath ignorance and interest in the subject... But regardless... It's just...incongruous... If you accept that brutalizing your fellow man with a variety of house hold objects is perfectly acceptable, how can you, in your right mind, consider blood to suddenly be inappropriate?
I can't make sense of this...and it happens a lot...Am I the only one to think these people are all hypocrites...or just insane?
tl:dr : People don't make any damn sense. Discuss.
