2009-02-04, 11:43 AM
I was at the video game store the other day and some kid (about 8 years old, if I had to guess) was trying to buy 2 games. The clerk looked at the kid's dad and said she couldn't sell them to the kid; she'd have to sell them to him.
The Dad asks "What's so bad about Rock Band & Grand Theft Auto?". Clerk answers that Rock Band is rated T for lyrical content and GTA has several depictions of excessive violence, sexuality, drugs, animal cruelty and a ridiculous amount of other illegal activities.
The Dad's reaction? "Oh.. they don't know what they're talking about". He then paid and gave both games to the kid.
... It's people like that that cause the lawmakers to waste their time making these ridiculous laws. People need to learn to parent their kids; in my example above, the warning did absolutely nothing to change the outcome, even though it was obvious that the dad never did his research to see what was adequate for his kid.
The Dad asks "What's so bad about Rock Band & Grand Theft Auto?". Clerk answers that Rock Band is rated T for lyrical content and GTA has several depictions of excessive violence, sexuality, drugs, animal cruelty and a ridiculous amount of other illegal activities.
The Dad's reaction? "Oh.. they don't know what they're talking about". He then paid and gave both games to the kid.
... It's people like that that cause the lawmakers to waste their time making these ridiculous laws. People need to learn to parent their kids; in my example above, the warning did absolutely nothing to change the outcome, even though it was obvious that the dad never did his research to see what was adequate for his kid.