Tuesday, November 16
In the news and in our (United States) government recently a claim to ban violent video games from minors has been raised. From what I can tell the group actually wants to ban games with “extreme” violence, because obviously we should start banning things based on subjective views.
But this got me thinking on alternate ways of trying to get violent games away from minors without banning violent games from our country and without banning them based on subjective views.
The reason we shouldn’t ban games on subjectivity is because whether or not a game has “extreme” violence is determined by each individual and unfortunately you can’t include ALL PEOPLE into one category… Unlike what some people think not everyone is going to agree that chopping off someone’s hand is “extreme”. And that is why you can’t ban things based on subjective views… well you can, but shhhhhhhh.
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| Not a game I would ban |
On the other hand banning all violent video games would ban a lot of games people are completely fine with. For example Mario, Sonic, and Poke’mon would all be banned. Because if you ban violent video games then you would have to ban ALL games with violence no matter what level of violence you think they have.
But there has to be a way to get violent video games away from minors. Well, what about a rating change? Everything rated “T” or less moves up one in the rating scale. That means “E” is now “E10+” and “E10+” is now “T” and “T” is now “M”. Obviously it doesn’t change “M” because minors shouldn’t be able to get them anyway. This would still allow games like Mario, Sonic, and Poke’mon to be accessable by minors (as they should), but games like Infamous, Final Fantasy 13, and Uncharted would be rated “M” and kept away from minors.
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| Seriously, all you do in this game is kill |
