.JPG "Christy (65)")
.JPG "OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA")
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 vs The Video Game Nazis
2009 November 11
I will protect your kids!
The release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has all the parents and computer game Nazis up in arms again. I’ve been listening to all the wing-nuts on Liveline (a radio show here in Ireland – here’s the MP3 from todays show.). Once again they’re calling for the banning of violent video games, for the restriction of our rights and civil liberties as adults because, and to put it as midly as I possibly can, they suck as parents.
Let’s make something perfectly clear CoD: MW2 is rated as 18′s in Ireland. That means that anyone younger than that should not even be able to purchase it. If you go into a games store or video store like Blockbuster to buy it you will be asked for identification to prove you are over 18. Asked for ID in the same way as if you were buying alcohol or cigarettes and similar penalties apply to those stores caught selling over 18′s game to minors.
It is not targeted at anyone younger than that and it is not intended for anyone younger than that.
If your child is playing a game rated for people 18 years of age and older you have to ask yourself some fundamental questions as a parent. Questions such as, how did my child get this game? Where did they get the 55+ euros ($82) to pay for it? How did I not know they got it? Why am I continuing to allow them to play such games when they are clearly underage?
Why am I being mad at the computer game industry when the clear and simple fact is that I have failed as a parent? Why do I expect the government to restrict the rights of adults because I fail to enforce existing rules on my children?
At least some sanity has been shown by British politicians with the bitch slapping of MP Keith Vaz by Labour MP Tom Watson, when he attempted to make it an issue before parliament.
‘Nuff said.
No comments yet