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Old 06-27-2008
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Re: Teens Turn 'Grand Theft Auto' Into Real-Life Robbery Spree

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Originally Posted by TheLastBoyScout View Post
If mimicking crime portrayed in the media is going to plummet our society into chaos, why didn't the glorification of "Bonnie and Clyde" cause our nation's moral downfall 70 years ago?
Well, I don't know that the movie (if there was one made) about bonnie and clyde was marketed to kids and teenagers. Like video games tend to be. The majority of the adult population has little or no interest in playing video games.

The main subject matter here is a supposedly civil society allowing children to be exposed to and engaging in violent fantasy video games. As I was saying earlier, our society decided to "rate" the contents of movies so that parents could easily judge if the movies were appropriate for their kids to see. Video games are "rated" as well. So parents are allowed to make poor choices on this matter too. They obviously do. As we see in the story.

It's more about what seems to be becoming more and more common in American society today. Parents making very poor choices in their child rearing methodologies. This isn't something that's new though. We just hear about these kinds of incidents more quickly because of the advances in communications over the recent decades.

Which is why I said:

.... well, it's nothing new really. Part of the human condition. There are idiots, crackpots and fruitloops of every stripe.

Always has(ve) been.

LOL I should probably avoid fox news for awhile. Give me a better outlook/opinion of humanity.


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Teens Turn 'Grand Theft Auto' Into Real-Life Robbery Spree
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