You remember the 20's? When one piece bathing suits where corrupting our youth?
You remember the 60's? When Rock and Roll where destroying our nation?
You remember the 90's? When Video Games were turning us all into violent serial killers?

In every notable era, some fragment of pop culture is accused of corrupting our youth.
Some element is destroying the very foundations of the human race. At this point in our
cultures timeline, you would think parents could claim responsibility and actually do a good
job of RAISING there children. But with the ever growing corruption of the electronic
games, and what they are doing to our poor defenseless children, its a wonder that our
streets are not running with the blood a million sacrificed innocent!

I am part of a generation that loves all sorts of media; music, television, movies, and video
games. And growing up around it, my parents were not blind to the ratings. The first Teen
rated game I ever played was Tomb Raider when I turned 12. And my Mother still refuses
me to have GTA in the house for my little brothers sake. Unlike seemingly every other
parent, my parents paid attention to the ESRB ratings. Why is that so hard? Even the
stores in my area enforce them! Last year I wanted to buy Resident Evil DS at Best Buy
and they refused because I didn't have an ID!

I think we can say our kids are rather safe from Video Games; its terrible parents that are
dangerous. I am confident my child will get a rather inevitable exposure to pop media, and
I will accept the (seemingly) burdening responsibility of choosing what media is and is not
right for them. Its not that hard! People act like video game companies are intentionally
targeting children with violent games. When in reality, its the careless parent who is to
blame.

The biggest case against the Video Game medium and the "neccesity" of censorship seems
to be Columbine, when two teenage boys shot up there school and committed suicide.
People often point out that they played Doom in there off time and it made them violent
people. Well, I think the guys at Penny Arcade summed it up best:

"Oh he had Doom on his computer. Well of course he had Doom on his computer he was a
violent fuck. Violent people like games..."

At the end of the day, all I have to say is, be a parent. Pay attention to what your child is
taking in, and don't rely on the government to do it for you. It just screws things up for us
who are old enough understand it and it only makes you look like a fool.