Detroit prosecutor makes outdated violent games list for holidays

So let me get this straight: It's a parent's decision, but only if they make the choice that either you or the government wants them to make.

Hah hah. :)

Okay, let's get some things straight

1) You make vast assumptions based on what a person says that's directed to another

2) You can't seem to distinguish political cynicism (which wasn't even meant to be half-serious in the first place)

3) You're a member of the grammar police
I'll refer you here: http://www.cracked.com/article_15664_9-words-that-dont-mean-what-you-think.html

4) You really love to list things

This politician is obviously not doing what the taxpayers are asking for her to do. Instead of tackling the real issues of crime (education, poverty, family morals, etc) she goes for a cheap shot. She doesn't have the answers to the problems in her city. So to make herself still seem valuable to the voter, she instills fear by focusing attention on a non-issue. Those taxpayers are wasting their money by keeping her in office, and she knows it. This goes for all politicians who make the same argument she does.

So I'll say again, DUMB, STUPID, B!TC#

Besides, doesn't it feel insulting to you that these people believe you'll turn into some raving psycho because you played GTA? Kinda insults your intelligence.

^^^lol^^^

"if you're under 18, tough crap, either prove to your parents that you're smart enough to rationally separate pixels from people"

Unfortunately, even if someone under 18 can prove that to their parents (not a tall order BTW, you'd have to be really fucking dumb to not know pixels from people), then there are a lot of people (such as "Todd" above) who would take that and make BS claims like "She's a dumb unfit mother just because she decided Timmy was intelligent".

"Detroit has a lot of problems based on a failing American Auto Industry and racial strife, which culminates in crime."

Yes, so the problem is this politician's thinly-veiled attempt to scapegoat videogames instead of crime's real reasons such as the ones you just pointed out.

"If this list keeps one bullet out of some teenager's skull,"

That's one hell of a giant "if". How the heck is this list going to stop anyone from being shot? You might as well say "A butterfly flapping its wings in Amsterdam COULD conceivably lead to a series of events that results in a kid getting shot in Compton, therefore we should get rid of butterflies." If someone gets shot in Detroit it's not going to be because nobody put a handful of M-rated games on some list.

If we let stupid shit get through, then before long the stuff we consider important now will be classified as stupid shit in the future. There will always be some liberty that under attack that isn't as important as another one that is under attack. After the lesser one was squashed, the next on the list can be focused on because there are more imporant things to worry about. There will always be more important things to worry about until there is only one thing left.

Not just America, but any society that thinks governments are qualified to run their lives (see the UK, Australia and Germany for examples).

We should sterilize anyone that thinks like this (not just games, but Government should raise our kids in general). Anyone that utters "it takes a village" should get snipped. That way, they won't have to worry about the kids because they won't be having any.

A lot of these teenage killers that this person is speaking of preventing come from white, middle-class families with good moral values. A lot of it has to do with lack of supervision because both parents work. A lot of parents feel guilty because of that and give their kids whatever they want. Does not raise the best, grounded people in the world. I completely disagree with your deadbeat parent idea. Deadbeat parents raise two-bit criminals, not like what we saw at Columbine (not saying it was caused by video games, but by lack of supervision).

You know, two working white middle class parents can still be deadbeat parents if they don't put any effort into raising their children.

was it the rape of nanking?