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Article #2585Re: About the CGW sex ads whiners
From: mba... Harf
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 00:00
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tama...@ionet.net (Trey Marshall) writes:
>In article <403a1c$des...@wilmington03.voicenet.com>, >
>> I'm not a parent, but right now I will speak out about that. I
>say
>>that all games with aggression and violence should be censored and banned
>from
>>anyone under the age of 18. Any in agreement?
> You certainly don't have my agreement. I grew up playing wargames
>and other games that had violence and by means did they change my adult
>life. It would be an awful mistake to concentrate on the by-products and
>not the cause of the problems. That's the problem in American society
>today. We want to cut out pornography, violence, and drugs, but we don't
>deal without dealing to the causes of these problems. I believe it all
>goes back to basic parenting. If one has had proper parenting then those
>people usually grow up to make mature decisions and judgements and now
>what is reality and is a game. It is those people who are sorry parents
>who worry about their kids being effected by watching too much Beavis and
>Butthead (I like them too) and don't spend enough time with their kids.
>If parents taught their kids proper values and right from wrong, we
>wouldn't have probably half the problems we have in the US.
I agree... we spend all our time trying to change things that
don't really matter, like removing adult ads from CGW, and we don't spend
nearly enough time trying to correct the real problems in our society, like
broken families, racism, poverty, and our government's constant wasting of
money.
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