Teachers threaten to report parents to authorities if they let kids play 18+ video games

[Samus Aran]

Tachikoma said:

Samus Aran said:

My parents bought me Metal Gear Solid on PC when it came out and my uncle gave me a pirated version of GTA III and Wolfenstein: Return to Castle Wolfenstein on the PC. Later I got my parents to buy GTA: Vice City. I also got a pirated copy of Quake III Arena from my friend. And we played a lot of Soul Blade and Syphon Filter at his house.

What's so wrong with letting kids play violent games...

And yeah, I didn't grow up with Nintendo. :p (if we ignore Pokémon red, silver and Super Mario Land 1 & 2.)

Depends entirely upon the individual child, and how that child interacts with other children, and what the social structure between them is.

So like i said, nice in concept, i.e. "in a perfect world", but in reality it has no hopes of success as even if 90% of parents restricted their kids, they would still manage to play such games anyway.

Frankly, i find it somewhat hypocritical that a movie with scenes of violence and nudity are generally classed much lower than games, too.

What annoys me most is that they have no problem with brutal violence on tv like decapitation, but the moment a movie, tv show or game has a bit of nudity in it they cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.

We wouldn't want our kids to see a nipple after all!