Germany on the verge of total ban of all video games
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I do agree that completly banning something does not work, but people doing it more when its banned i dont think is right. I live in America and Cocaine is banned but more people dont do cocaine because its banned. You just hear about it more. When something is banned and someone gets caught doing it then they tell people. Like if a crack addict, who likes video games, robs a store and gets caught the police report will say that he did drugs also, not play video games.Yossarian90 said:
Ok, on topic. If they ban video games in Germany there will be a huge backlash, not to mention an influx of inmates in their jails. This is how the conversation will go:
Inmate 1: Im in here because I killed someone.
Inmate 2: Im in here because I pretended to kill someone.
I see what you did there, and only you could get away with something like that (just about).Kukul said:
Yes thank you, Article 5. There is no firm evidence to support this claim, and never will be. But yes banning of not an entire medium, after all games aren't being banned full stop, but violent games will bring about a very severe backlash indeed.theSovietConnection said:
They might as well ban movies and music as well...
I mean after all, watching someone slice off someone else's limbs in a movie or hearing someone rap or sing about killing people is so not an issue when simply pressing buttons on a controller apparently is...
I mean after all, watching someone slice off someone else's limbs in a movie or hearing someone rap or sing about killing people is so not an issue when simply pressing buttons on a controller apparently is...
No call of duty?
ok ok listn, this aint about germany not wanting violence, this is about germany hiding its 1939-45 shame.
ok ok listn, this aint about germany not wanting violence, this is about germany hiding its 1939-45 shame.
You, sir, understand cause and effect better than most people. We teach it in school, but apparently not very well if these studies are any indication.Machines Are Us said:
Hooray for poorly written legislation!theSovietConnection said:
Also, [insert rant on why protecting minors is pointless and why they should be free to view what they wish]. I just don't think it's all that bad for them to be exposed to media and the censorship's purely a nonproductive source of frustration.
This coming from a country that has conscription. Ironic.
I feel bad for young Germans with a government like that.
I feel bad for young Germans with a government like that.
The "only" is your mistake. Our ministers come up with shit like that every week, it just never passes parliament.ChromeAlchemist said:
If it was for the ministers, games, guns, cars, alcohol, cigarettes, porn and swearing would be banned by now (at one point or another they did have the majority of ministers on the side to ban those things. And that's been the last 10 years).
You have to remember that on country-level our ministers are kinds like the Queen in the UK: They are the face, they can say what they want, but what actually happens is most times not really related to them.
On the state-level it's a different game, since their party usually holds a majority in that state and can do almost whatever they want (until someone is pissed off by it and calls to the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court) and they undo whatever was done).
This reminds me of a Family Guy joke. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFCSWS469fc]bradley348 said:
Sorry for the poor "recording the screen" quality, it's what was available.
