Manhunt Makes children kill...ow get over it

[Guest John Kerry]

i give it a b+

[user]

It has Urban in it, that degrades it to a D, but then upgrades it back to an A

[CrazyMAC]

anyone see me on tv yet =D i look the sex lol they cut out are manhunt bit but i don't blame them

[Izuno]

i guess i'll just say the obvious here:

the people who want to blame video games for that kid's murder, for columbine, etc aren't really interested in "saving the children" or doing good for society. the lawyers who are trying to "destroy Rockstar Games" aren't trying to make society better. all those people are in it for their own greed (especially the lawyers). see, what we all know but don't say is that those people are simply looking for an "out"...it's easier to blame video games and demonize developers/publishers/esrb than to swallow the fact that some people are just screwed up. some people get physically, sexually, mentally, and emotionally abused as children, and that screws them up for life. in a rare instance, those abuse victims go crazy and go on killing sprees in places like Littleton, Colorado or they stab a kid at school in England. it totally sucks and no one wins. but because western legal systems tend to award lots of money for loss and pain and suffering caused by such events, greedy, sleazy people try to take advantage. like that laywer trying to take down RockStar over this killing in England. Only someone who has been an abulance chaser all his life would say he's going to "destroy Rockstar games"...plz.

it says something about western culture (mainly capitalistic culture)...the cost of the wonderful freedom (more or less) we enjoy in western societies (as opposed to living under a dictator, a fascist or extremist regime, or Communism) is that members of such free societies are free to try to exploit any angle they can find to make money. i'm not saying it is frivolous to sue rockstar necc, but it reminds me of people who commit insurance fraud or pretend to slip on something in the supermarket and then sue everyone about it. it's like these people sit around and wait for a reason to sue just so they don't have to take responsibility for their lack of success or happiness.

so back to the topic, wanting to ban video games and destroy rockstar and etc all comes from people with deep seeded issues that keep themselves from being happy and successful. rather than take responsibility for their lives they simply blame anything they think they have a chance at profiting from. it's one of the nasty sides of capitalism and western culture, particularly american culture, that we have to live with to enjoy the otherwise great freedom we have.

[Guest John Kerry]

Izuno: correct... couple of days ago.. some kid died near me... cause the parents left her unattended at a playground... the kid basicly hung herself on some rope netting... and the first things the grandma said to the media was blame the netting of the playground not the fact that the kid was unattended to for so long.. this artical was the only one i could find on it.. i heard it on the radio the other day...

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/9298585.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

[FrieChamp]

Very true Izuno.