[AWB]Dems prep ground for 2014 Electoral Defeat

[DinoDoc]

Absolutely none. It's a constant source of amazement to the european games industry that the US companies bother to fight this stupid ****.

What are parents for?

[kentonio]

What are parents for?

How does a kid being able to walk into a store without their parents and buy adult material strengthen the hand of the parents? As I said, over here if parents want their kids to have that stuff, they can just go buy it for them. If anything, that makes the parents role stronger.

[DinoDoc]

Why is it the government's role to keep the latest Resident Evil or Dead Space out of little Johnny's hands rather than his parents?

[regexcellent]

Absolutely none. It's a constant source of amazement to the european games industry that the US companies bother to fight this stupid ****.

we have something that you don't it's called "freedom of speech" you should try it sometime it's really cool

btw I played Grand Theft Auto Vice City when I was like...11? or something. Somehow I have managed to avoid being a mass murderer

[molly bloom]

Somehow I have managed to avoid being a mass murderer

So far. Charles Whitman was 25 at the time of his shooting spree....

[regexcellent]

(I have you on ignore and I haven't actually read your post but I assume it's something to which this picture is applicable, because every post of yours is)

[molly bloom]

(I have you on ignore and I haven't actually read your post

Super.

[MichaeltheGreat]

That is incredibly silly. What major game does _not_ sport the ESRB rating? What harm is this ameliorating?

It's going through the motions to say "we've done something."

[MichaeltheGreat]

I've never understood the constitutional argument on this one. Children are prevented from doing all sorts of things that adults are not, yet suddenly it's unconstitutional to prevent them from buying certain media? Can kids can walk into a shop and buy porn?

There used to be tons of porn cases in the federal courts. The answer is "it depends." Usually it's now handled by local zoning and business licensing restrictions, which are generally outside free speech challenges.

[kentonio]

Why is it the government's role to keep the latest Resident Evil or Dead Space out of little Johnny's hands rather than his parents?

So you think it's vaguely realistic to expect parents to be able to keep tabs on their childrens activity 24 hours a day? Oh no, it's easier to cry like a little girl about evil 'government'. Do you even understand the basic concept of society? People working together towards common goals?

It takes a village to raise a child, expecting parents to raise healthy children in a moral vacuum is ridiculous.

we have something that you don't it's called "freedom of speech" you should try it sometime it's really cool

We have freedom of speech too, we just don't use it like a petulant bunch of teenagers with tourettes.

btw I played Grand Theft Auto Vice City when I was like...11? or something. Somehow I have managed to avoid being a mass murderer

No, just an obnoxious semi-psychotic with a gun fetish and a loose grasp on reality.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

It takes a village to raise a child

Amongst the most idiotic phrases ever coined. A phrase intended to indicate a need for a society devoted to a culture of caring (Counter to reality btw and not arbitrairily imposed by governmental edict) but more often than not used by people without a clue in the roles of parenting to justify lack of individual parenting responsibilities as evidenced by the entirety of the post.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Village children tend to be unruly if not raised by responsible parents.

[Guynemer]

I'm just gonna leave this here. For ****s and giggles.

School security guard leaves gun unattended in school restroom


EDIT: my mistake, it was not loaded

[kentonio]

Amongst the most idiotic phrases ever coined. A phrase intended to indicate a need for a society devoted to a culture of caring (Counter to reality btw and not arbitrairily imposed by governmental edict) but more often than not used by people without a clue in the roles of parenting to justify lack of individual parenting responsibilities as evidenced by the entirety of the post.

The only reality it's counter to is the dark dystopian vision that you crazy folks live in, where everyone needs an armory of guns to survive to adulthood, gangs of ghetto kids are lining up to raid your house and evil Kenyan sleeper agents have taken over government. It's all a bit sad really.

[The Mad Monk]

Village People tend to be unruly if not raised by the YMCA.

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