Legislators in the state of Minnesota have enacted a video game restriction law that they apparently do not want enforced and understand cannot constitutionally be enforced," said Andersen.
I think the word you're looking for is "pandering". The best we can do now is keep fighting, not do a "Comic Book" industry and cave, and 20 years from now when these old people die, we'll all shrug and go "Man - that was annoying. Now if we can just get our crazy kids to stop dating aliens - those human-alien marriages are going to ruin our society!"
ESA retained a firm with a very good reputation in Minnesota. The complaint was filed by the Entertainment Software Association and the Entertainment Merchants Association
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That it will be a waste of police resources, having them hang around outside Best Buy and EB Games, arresting children. Great PR there...
This was designed to be a token gesture, a wake up call to parents (as admitted by the designers), but lets face it, until you drag the parents into court, this will never work.
Good intentions (forcing the parents to pay attention to what their kids are doing) foiled not by the ESA, but by the simple fact that some parents won't pay attention no matter what. A fact that most lawmakers fail to realise.
The horribly out of control kids, the ones who can't tell between reality and virtual worlds. The ones who go on to do terrible things. You think these laws stop them? Gawd no. Because their parents bought them the game, their parents decided to let the TV/console raise their kids instead of being there for them. No amount of government regulation will do ANYTHING to save you there.
Good intentions (forcing the parents to pay attention to what their kids are doing) foiled not by the ESA, but by the simple fact that some parents won't pay attention no matter what.Yeah, the parents that will pay attention generally already are. And either they're using the tools, already in place, or they're making sure that their kid already has good values, judgement, etc. and thus can handle anything that might come up in video games, or tell for them selves what their parents wouldn't approve of and have enough respect for their parents to abid by that
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I think the word you're looking for is "pandering". The best we can do now is keep fighting, not do a "Comic Book" industry and cave, and 20 years from now when these old people die, we'll all shrug and go "Man - that was annoying. Now if we can just get our crazy kids to stop dating aliens - those human-alien marriages are going to ruin our society!"
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This was designed to be a token gesture, a wake up call to parents (as admitted by the designers), but lets face it, until you drag the parents into court, this will never work.
Good intentions (forcing the parents to pay attention to what their kids are doing) foiled not by the ESA, but by the simple fact that some parents won't pay attention no matter what. A fact that most lawmakers fail to realise.
The horribly out of control kids, the ones who can't tell between reality and virtual worlds. The ones who go on to do terrible things. You think these laws stop them? Gawd no. Because their parents bought them the game, their parents decided to let the TV/console raise their kids instead of being there for them. No amount of government regulation will do ANYTHING to save you there.
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