Johanas Winfield

Judge Strikes Down Violent Video-Game Law (Switched)

Sep 18th 2007 7:05PM Here's what I find interesting. I don't hear clamoring for people to keep children from playing lazor tag or paintball (live action war zone simulations). On the contrary, they have collegiate teams which offer scholarships for people who have grown up playing paintball and are good at it.

Children have always had a violent outlet in the form of games. Parents enroll kids into martial arts tournaments, since the 30's kids have set ambushes playing cowboys and indians, children for centuries have picked up sticks to swordfight, the boyscouts used to teach marksmenship; These violent recreational activities (including paintball and lazor tag), unlike video games hone the skills and increased the knowledge of what they emulate.

The arguement against video games is the same baseless arguement about violence(/sexuality) your parents(to the nth) made about rap, rock, short skirts, girl pants, Jazz, Poe, Vandelyn, Michealangelo, Theatre...