There’s also the problem that the fundament religious movement is behind this idea that violence is a problem in games. They said the same thing about comic books in my day and age. I learned to read with comic books and to this day, I have no inclination to jump off a multistory building, rob a bank, or go have a fight for the heck of it. Nor do I plan on being some sort of serial rapist or killer. Not just me but literally hundreds of thousands of kids read those mags and didn’t turn out as predicted.

Making the simplistic claim that intertainment is the root source, ignores the real causes and covers them up with feelgood. The real source for the most part is home upbringing and the government should never have a say in how you raise your kids as far as getting into the family itself without good cause above and beyond some religious polical party ambitions.

Social services is supposed to protect kids but I personally know that some people abuse that. I’ve known some that because they have a beef with another individual to try and use social services as a get back tool; that’s low. No actual action was the reason for the call to social services but rather the filed complaint was used to create headaches for the parents just because it was an easy way to do it without having to have the balls to say who they are. It’s all anonymous when dealing with reports by social services and is a prime example of why the government should have far less say than they now do. I’m not saying that there isn’t a place for social services but I am saying the oppurtunity to abuse it is just too easy.

(but I have to admit, the americans do tend to have deeper double morale than most countries)