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Originally Posted by Clickme
If it's to violent for a game, why can't it be too violent for the 35ft screen with surround sound?
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Because video games have a more direct influence then the other medias, by making the player a direct cause of the violence, instead of a casual observer of them.
And well, Parents should be responsible, but there's only so much they can do. What, stop your kid from going to a friend's house because they have GTA? Are you supposed to find out everything your child is doing and all their friends are doing? If you let the kid get, say, a paper route or some sort of small job, or let them save up money to get something, and they go with a friend's parents to buy said M rated game to play while you're not at home or something.
The parent's going to have to rule with an iron fist in order to keep their kids clean, earning the ire of friends and family in the process, forcing their kid to live a sheltered life that might not be good for them.
Obviously, Parents need to pay attention and actually work at it. But they probably need some sort of help from the schools and the law, they can't do literally everything.