NY Politicians Can't Resist: Still Want To Pass Law Banning Sale Of Violent Video Games
from the why-bother-defending-the-constitution-when-we-can-suck-up-to-special-interests? dept
Despite the fact that yet another state's attempt at passing a law banning the sale of certain video games to children was just tossed out as unconstitutional (as have seven other similar laws), politicians in NY insist on moving forward with their own attempt at passing the same kind of law. Once again, it will do absolutely nothing but waste taxpayer money as it goes to the courts and gets tossed out as being unconstitutional again. As the article notes, politicians don't care about that. They simply want to have something they can point to as showing that they're working hard to "protect the children." People vote for that and ignore the fact that the laws are unconstitutional and a total waste of time and taxpayer money for both the politicians and the courts.Meanwhile, as Slashdot highlights in a similar story, there's a fantastic quote from Judge Richard Posner concerning this issue: "Violence has always been and remains a central interest of humankind and a recurrent, even obsessive theme of culture both high and low ... It engages the interest of children from an early age, as anyone familiar with the classic fairy tales collected by Grimm, Andersen, and Perrault are aware. To shield children right up to the age of 18 from exposure to violent descriptions and images would not only be quixotic, but deforming; it would leave them unequipped to cope with the world as we know it." That seems worth remembering.
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at least someone has his head out of his a**
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With video games, eventually, then it will just switch to another medium
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Talk about grandiose...
Typical, take the responsibility away from the parents. Parental authority for kids, not government authority. Duh....
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Checklist...
1. Movies - Check
2. Musics - Check
3. Books - Check
4. Videogames - Check
5. ???
I wonder what medium will be the next victim?
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Re: Checklist...
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Oh and Violent politicians too.
You know - we could just burn the books, movies, video games and everything the government says is bad to protect our children - what a GREAT idea!!!
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A clever judge
Here in Denmark (North Europe), we have a good laugh every time the Americans, with all their weapons, goes ape shit over a few pixels showing blood or knifes or whatever.
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And let the pedophiles go free!!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294004,00.html
F'in "justice" system
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Banning The Sale Of Violent Video Games
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Forget it
Come on won't somebody think of the adults!
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I ain't never seen anything like that GTA:SA! =( And I thought the media had desensitized me!
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Banning Video Games
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Video Game Banners... Go to hell!!!!!!
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im in class
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