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Sesslers Soapbox - Grand Theft Logic?
by unmanaged at 2:09 am EDT, May 7, 2008

thank you adam finally someone actually pointing out the real reason for parents and mokey BS R-TARDS it parents responsibilty whether a child gets a game like GTA 4 and it not the games FAULT its tha parents fault BE A BETTER PARENT.......i mean for god,s sake there,a A rating system for a reason
the fact that the game has a M rateing say,s nothing to parents maybe some parents think that the rateing sytem is there to LOOK PRETTY ..well its not
it there for a actuall reason i mean GAMES THAT GET A M RATEING ARE FOR ADULTS NOT A FREKEN 8 YEAR OLD .....sexual content, blood violence ,partial nudity ,drugs and alchool ,strong langauge stuff like this for M rated games are on the back of the box FOR A GOD MOTHER FREAKEN REASON
and yet pepole like AssJack Thompson or parents who are aparently blind of the E.S.R.B RATEING SYSTEM STILL BLAME VIDEO GAMES BACAUSE THEY DONT WANT TO ADMIT THIER THE PROBLEM NOT THAT GAME,S IT,S THIER FAULT...simple as that

Adam really flips his wig of GTA and the way parents are not accepting responsiblioty for giving kids something that thay might not want them to have...

Watch the video.... I would like your views on the subject....

RE: Sesslers Soapbox - Grand Theft Logic?
by Stefanie at 2:43 pm EDT, May 7, 2008

unmanaged wrote:
Adam really flips his wig of GTA and the way parents are not accepting responsibility for giving kids something that they might not want them to have...
Watch the video.... I would like your views on the subject....

Sessler is correct, and it seems like a pretty straight-forward issue, to me.

Whether we're considering video games, anime, feature films, music, literature, magazines, etc., there are some forms of entertainment and art intended only for adults. Generally speaking, the fact that some adults enjoy these things hurts neither society as a whole, nor children, specifically. Logical exceptions would include snuff films, films or photos of actual minors in adult situations, etc., but such media depicting actual crimes are not within the scope of this issue, as I understand it.

With the exceptions of literature* and magazines, most of these forms of entertainment have voluntary ratings systems, and I agree with Sessler that there's no "f-ing mystery" about them. Parents have the tools necessary to do their jobs. Sessler's rant is justified, as far as I'm concerned.

*Using "literature" in a broad sense, manga/manhwa/manhua do have rating systems, similar to anime, but I don't know whether other types of comics have ratings. I've never seen ratings on novels, short stories, plays, or poetry, but I wonder whether Jack Thompson would've sued Geoffrey Chaucer over The Canterbury Tales?