I hate Jack Thompson. I hate Cooper Lawrence. I hate dolts who think violent video games skewer kids' perception of reality.
That's your job, Mom and Dad. And my favorite part is that everyone and their mothers gets up in arms about violent video games and
the images on the video game cover boxes.
Why is it then that I see this upon going to CNN.com to get news? A place I have been getting news since I was a freshman in high school nine years ago.
I saw this heartwarming image...
Kind of reminiscent of the Left 4 Dead cover, isn't it?
Why isn't CNN being attacked for this audacious display of violence just as much as video games are being bashed? At least I have the choice
not to purchase a game if I think it looks violent. Going to CNN.com for news... well, I didn't really have a choice. It was just BAM! The bloodied hand of a dying protester in Iran. Awesome.
One of the reasons I am repulsed by this image is because I know this is real. It is similar to when those gunmen attacked in India and the pictures of bloodied train stations were posted on this same news website. My parents did a good job of making me understand the difference between fake and real. I am a pacifist in all regards, I hate guns and weapons and I oppose warfare and all that good junk. However, I love killing bitches in Call of Duty, Counter-Strike, BioShock, Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto, and such violent "killing machine trainer" video games. You know, because pushing X to reload is incredibly similar to reloading an actual AK-47.
I am just incredibly peeved that parents can relinquish their responsibilities, blame video games, especially when images like this are posted on easily accessible news websites that kids most likely regularly visit for research and info for classes.
Now, I am not that upset at the picture - I could care less - I am not that uptight. It's just the conflict of interest in the censorship. I hate it.
/rant
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That said, not all kids go to CNN.com but there's a greater chance that a kid would visit a store with (or without) his parents. If censors are trying to stop distrubing imagery from popping up in media, the more likely target of censors would be in what kids would see in greater probability.
but the disturbing (to me anyway) thing is that people are worried about a fabricated image of a zombie's hand and not worried about the actual bloodied hand of a dying human being. I'm pretty sure the latter is more desensitizing to violence than a fabricated image of a fictitious creature.
You're allowed to watch people being shot (WW2), suicide bombings go off (Iraq/India), people getting hanged (aka Saddam), people being beaten to unconsciousness (all those police tapes), but I'm not allowed to play GTA because it has hookers in who you don't actually have sex with.
Ridiculous.
Good rant :]
But then again - ignorance is bliss, eh?