@Darc Requiem - Ah, gotta love that word "Puritan." Allows us to quickly lump together the ideas of having good morals with the idea of crazy witch hunts. Makes having morals look bad somehow; that's some trick.
The fact is that our kids (particularly) should not be exposed to excessive violence OR sex. Somehow people get the idea that, because violence is treated as acceptable by society, sex, a "lesser evil" by comparison, should be treated even more so. You're drifting in the wrong direction: if violence is accepted and sex is not, then the adjustment should be that sex AND violence not be accepted. If you accept anything based on how bad it seems next to violence, you're going to condone anything before long.
And it certainly is fading, don't worry. We've been in moral decline in this country since Nietzsche suggested morals and God didn't exist, and everyone decided being able to do whatever you wanted was more important than anything else. Just compare society's reaction to violence and sex before the 60's, and you'll see the moral decline. Why didn't people back then crave violence or sex in their art? Why can't we do without it now?
But I don't expect anything to change. I'm just promoting a mindset that might keep us from going further in that direction faster.
More on topic, I think the AO rating is unfair for Manhunt 2. M is appropriate; as has been said, movies of comparable violence are rated R.
"Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later." -C.S. Lewis
"We all make choices... but in the end, our choices... make us." -Andrew Ryan, Bioshock
Prediction: Wii passes 360 in US between July - September 2008. (Wii supply will be the issue to watch, and barring any freak incidents between now and then as well.) - 6/5/08; Wow, came true even earlier. Wii is a monster.
