Tax money at work
It seems that video games are under attack again. Nevermind the fact that the violent video games are meant for adults. Nevermind the responsibility of parents to monitor what their children are doing.
What about the correlation between violence and mental illness? Are we going to ban mental illness? How about the relationship between violence and weapons. Why don’t we keep swords, guns, and explosives out of children’s hands? Or, how about violence and lack of parental guidance? Parents need to take responsibility for their children. Parents need to get children away from the TV, off of the computer, and talk to them. Yes, I’m proposing a bold new concept; actually communicate with your child.
Blaming the movies, music, and video games is not the answer. If video games are such a big threat to society, I think half of the country would lie in ruins now. Any male and a good number of female between 8 and 30 has spent a good portion of their time playing video games. Most of the population has watched violent movies or violent television. If there was this strong of a relationship, we’d have millions of violent crimes an hour.
Half a million people die each year due to tobacco. The number of asthma cases today is twice that of 20 years ago due to the burning of fossil fuels. Pollution output has increased for the first time in 20 years, thanks to Bush’s ‘green’ energy policy. Billions of dollars in US tax money has been spent on blowing up and rebuilding a country that did nothing to us. Millions of people around the world are starving and dying from easily curable diseases. The poverty level in the US is not much better than developming countries. Don’t we have more important things to do other than bashing video game companies?
