The Byron Review

[Meshugger]

Have anyone ever actually made a study trying to figure out the potential harm that TV and violent movies can have on children?

 

Fixed, same difference

[Sand]

The bottomline, when it comes tot he media and and information, what is shown to children is the responsibility of the parent. NO ONE ELSE.

[Pidesco]

I have to say that I think the issue of violence in games isn't really important at all. Or rather, it's about as important as violence in movies, or violent music lyrics, or violence in books, or playing cops and robbers. The point is that if, say, 12 year old kids have trouble distinguishing between make-believe violence and real violence, their parents have bigger things to worry about in their kid's development than violent games.

 

On the other hand, to take a more extreme example, if a 4 or 5 year old is playing, say, Manhunt, I also don't understand how that might not be exclusively the parents' fault, with or without the existence of government mandated age raitngs.

[Tigranes]

The bottomline, when it comes tot he media and and information, what is shown to children is the responsibility of the parent. NO ONE ELSE.

 

1. So if the parent failz, screw the kid? That's going to do so much good for society.

2. So if the parent is a tinfoil oddball with wacky beliefs about media and information, their ownership of their children are such that the government should just let the parents, for example, show them Saw IV at age three?

[Sand]

Only time the government should intervene is when the parent loses custody of the child and the child becomes ward of the state. Up to that point, the government has no right to tell how a parent raises his or her kid. If the parent "failz" then the child should be taken away from the parent, and any subsequent children thereafter as well, but that should only happen in cases of abuse and neglect.

[Humodour]

I try to convince myself Sand isn't the problem and that his extremely literal, morally black and white attitude is fairly common in America*, but that just frustrates me even more.

 

*which interestingly is true - brain development is influenced strongly by culture, and America appears to strongly favour literal, absolute judgements.

[Predalien Sir!]

I dont think it's appropairte for a governemtn to intervene in the entertainment industry. It should let sleeping tigers rest.

[Moatilliatta]

Where did all this intervening talk come from? Most of the proposed stuff doesn't suggest intervening but rather different forms of classification and judging products. Or do I remember most of it wrong?