Die, Filthy Space Alien Scum: Kids and Video Game Violence

"One of the biggest problems with violence in video games is that it is typically shown to have no negative consequences. There is no right and wrong. For example, in the game "Grand Theft Auto," stealing cars gets you extra points rather than jail time."

Wrong.

Wrong wrong wrong.

The concepts of Right and Wrong are fully prevalent in Grand Theft Auto, and there are no 'points' to speak of at all in the game. Steal a car, and you will attract the attention of law enforcement, who will attempt to chase you down and arrest you. But this is a common misconception played by the Media in order to drum up fear in otherwise ignorant parents that can't be bothered to properly supervise their children or buy them age appropriate video games.

Grand Theft Auto has a very simplistic right vs wrong system built into the game. Just because you CAN steal cars, doesn't mean you SHOULD. There are consequences for your actions including getting arrested or incapacitated, forcing a trip to the police station or hospital. Granted you're allowed to continue playing rather than ending up in the morgue or behind bars, but you walk out with nothing more than the clothes on your back and a lot less cash in your wallet.

That's not to say a child should be playing it: No decent parent would allow their child to play Grand Theft Auto, but it is not the Devil in disguise, as this article would have you believe.

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And we wonder why we are losing our children to violence in this world. We call it entertainment!

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My son is 8 and plays all the war games. I will not let him play the grand theft auto because of sexual content in it but he plays all of the call of dutys, and like halo and I feel comfortable with him playing them because I have explained to him that just because the game does it doesn't mean it is ok in real life. All the war games are violent of chourse but to me he is also learning from it too. These wars happened and people actually had to go through this. but again he knows that just because he kills people on the game doesnt mean he is going to run around killing real people. It is the part of a parent to make sure your kids know the differance between real and fake.

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Wow, well my sister in law who I do not get along with is a terrible mother. Her son who is four yrs. old and has played halo, call of duty, battle field since he was a year old at first it was just pushing random buttons on the controller then he learned to shoot at 2 and a half years. i was appalled by the fact that his stupid mother would allow him to play. he sits in front of the tv playing these games like a zombie he does not talk just yells he not potty trained only eats pizza and chicken nuggets, hits people and breaks things when they tell him no and when he is not playing he carries around guns pretending to shoot people and thats all. his mother only buys him guns to play with. and when he does not have a gun toy he uses his hands and sneaks around like a soldier throwing grenades . its disgusting children should not play these games and the parents should not buy them to begin with.

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