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You know that apparently it's illegal to smack your kids in the UK? I used to get bent over one of their knees and smacked if I refused to listen to my parents and it did no harm to me or my older sister.
Parents need to take control again but the Government needs to give them that control too. If I ever had kids that refused to listen to me when I ask them nicely to stop that screaming and then told them to stop the screaming, they'd be over my knee with their knickers down and feeling a stern hand on their bare backside. I'd follow that through with an explanation of why I did it. I hate to say it but pain's a good teacher. It taught me to be careful around ceramic hobs and leave them well alone. |
I think it's bullshit for them to be able to go to jail for life for selling videogames that are M-rated to minors. Yes, it is wrong to sell them to minors in the first place- but to go to jail for LIFE over it? That's not just a little over the top, that's beyond over the top.
I think the most that should happen is a fine- about 200$, or maybe even less. And as someone mention, parents and store workers really DO need to really consider the games they buy for their children, and store clerks should at least TRY to say that the game someone is purchasing might be bad for a child. Hell, my dad bought me Resident evil while I was at a store, and not once did they question him on it. So yes, while I think they need to step up a little in their selling to minors, going to jail for life, and making it a crime is really overdoing things. |
Quite frankly it's not the clerk's fault if they sell a game to an adult who in turn hands it to their brat. That's called the consumer being a dipsh*t. Maybe they should punish these morons who allow their kids to have access to this material too early.
By the way if they're going to do this by public humiliation or lashings I'm first in queue for the job or I'll whip ya :wink: Next thing you know, they'll stop selling any game/movie that isn't all sweetness and light and fluffy with unicorns in it. |
I have to say, it's not COMPLETELY up to the clerk. I've heard too many stories where a clerk refuses to sell an M rated game to some punk kid, so the punk kid gets his punk daddy, who then harasses and threatens the clerk. It's not up to store clerks to raise other jerks' kids. :/ Parents are responsible for their kids. BOTTOM LINE. Don't want a kid? Don't want to say no to a kid? Don't want to be bothered to teach a kid the difference between reality and a game? Simple. Don't have a kid.
Don't leave it up to store clerks. Admittedly, they are negligent if they just sell games without checking IDs. I was 19, with my mom, who looks like she's in her 30s, and they still carded me. That's all they needed to do. Card. I'm 19, I can buy Devil May Cry 3, and I did. The thing is, sometimes they don't card. You know, I bought alcohol, at age 21, in a liquor store. Did they card me? No. But they card me for games. >.>; Basically, everyone needs to card, regardless, and when it comes down to it, you say no to minors. But if their parents want to be arrogant and stupid, we can't stop THEM. Parents think they are all and knowing when it comes to their own kids, but they blame everyone else when soemthing goes wrong. The makers of the games shouldn't be mommy and daddy to a bunch of kids, and be blamed when that kid goes wrong. The game is for entertainment, and I know the difference between what is reality and what is not. ...they're starting to crack down too tightly on games. I think parents should go to jail for life over something like this, if the people selling video games have to. :/ |
From what I know of the system there are already laws put in place to stop little kids from obtaining games they should not have.
Such as Ao cant be sold to anyone who dosn't have an ID stating they are over 17. M cant be sold to anyone under 13 without a parents consent. So on and so forth. Game stores around here are pretty good about abiding by the rating laws too. My friend worked in a games store for over a year (she we promoted to management within that time as well) and she told me they STRESS to there workers to abide by the ratings and rating laws. And if a parent comes in with there kid and wants to buy a game for a kid clearly under the age limit, the workers are to stress the games rating to the parent. My friend once told me of a time a mother and son came in and the mother was buying a clearly Ao game that the boy simply picked up and gave her so it was clear she was buying it for him. But she didn't so much as look at the cover. My friend made sure to tell the woman what the game was rated and the little sound bite they were given about it. The mother was appalled that her son would want such a game and promptly put it back dragging the boy out of the shop. Example of an ok parent that just needs to learn to LOOK at what there kid is playing. Another time, though. Identical situation. Mother and son. Same game. My friend explained the game. Mother got so pissed off that my friend would insinuate that her perfect little child would want such a thing. Refused to believe that that was what the game was about and bought it anyway. Example of a person who should have been sterilized before having children. Ya, I think some games take it too far when it comes to the content *coughgrandtheftautocough* but most games are suitable for there AGE RESTRICTION. And people need to pay attention to said age restriction and stop telling the game companies they are taking things too far. |
I think it's just another side effect of the television becoming the babysitter. It's really upsetting to me, to think that there are so many parents who just don't seem to have time to raise a child. Or they don't want to spend the time to do so. Plunking the kid down in front of the TV is all too easy, but then the parents expect the government or someone else to do the regulating that they don't have time to do themselves. I'm not saying kids can't grow up to be decent people anyway when raised in that manner, but if the parents want to teach a certain set of values to their child they have to TEACH IT THEMSELVES.
Everything is instant and quicker now, so why does it seem like everyone has less and less time for kids? I wondered that myself all the time when I was growing up. It just baffles me how everyone immediately points at video games and other media when things go wrong with kids, too. It's like no one wants to take responsibility for children anymore. So yeah, I agree that it's not the video games that are the problem. They've just become the American scapegoat. |
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Parents need to be parents. If you want your kid to know reality from a game, right from wrong, ect ect. YOU need to teach it to them. |
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