If you’re buying a Mature game, don’t bring younger siblings

[Bodhesatva]

Why do people have no problem when consumers try to circumvent the rules (prohibiting minors from playing Mature rated games without expressed consent from guardians), but you get angry when Best Buy tries to stop people from circumventing the rule? I see a lot of discussion about whether this is legal or not, and I think it's irrelevant; the point is that Best Buy had clear and logical evidence (whether that evidence led to correct conclusions or not is irrelevant) that these people were trying to get around the rules, and they stopped it. That is good. They are enforcing the rules! Yay! Why aren't we celebrating? Why aren't we saying: "thank goodness, a store is getting tough about enforcing the age-of-use rules for games?" 

This really bothers me, personally, as there doesn't seem to be any way for the law to win this. 

 

We complain when parents aren't educated consumers, but then when we put a system in place that is specifically intended to help protect children and educate parents about content, we complain when that system is actually enforced.

Which is it? Do we want to complain that the parents don't know enough, or do we want to complain that a system is being put in place to help them safeguard their children and inform them about what their children are doing? You can't have it both ways.