Salmaras said:
Hi, i'm 15, and i'm begining to see a pattern developing here. I hear alot in the media about how i'm either a danger to society or an obsessive-compulsive psychopath. Neither of which i can see being true and indeed doesn't apply to most people i've met. (Yes there are people like that but i hardly see how age comes into it). I've been told i'm too childish to take anything seriously, and too young to play a game in which something morally reprehensible is happening without getting dramaticlly influenced by it, which is a remarkable contradiction in terms.
My complaint is this, i'm mature enough to take the arguement itself seriously, and smart enough to work out that game logic hardly applies to the real world, i've in fact never seen anyone who has, apart from isolated cases brought up the news, from kids who were clearly unstable before and who were given a game that they really probably shouldn't have by their parents. So why is it the media is allowed to get away with such irresponsible generalisation without being caught out by someone about it? Why has it gotten far enough to actually become an issue?
This is because the parents of today, want someone to blame other than thier kid when he/she decides to go kill half a dozen people. It really comes down to nothing more complicated than that. It also helps that because of hormone(or however you spell it) fluctuations, the emotional responses of a teenager vary so widely that even completely well adjusted teenagers can easily fit the criteria for several mental problems. Most commonly depression and manic depression, but sometimes even paranoia, ocd or dissasociation disorder(once again, or however u spell it). I have had psychologists tell me this and even read it in a psychology textbook.
The fact is, that every single one of these kids is responsible for the choices he/she makes. i played tenchu stealth assasins, and other M rated games when I was 12. I watched R rated movies even earlier, and so did most, if not all of my friends. None of us shot-up a school, or cut someone up into bits. These people are either just non-diagnosable f-ed up, angry people who decide to kill others, in which case it's thier fault. Or they are legitimately crazy, in which case it is the parents fault for letting them run around unchecked and without medication. Thats just the way it is. and it is unrelated to age. The same is true of the many adults that become murderers or rapists or whatever.
As for being too young to take anything seriously. This is exagerated highly, but partially true in a way. Young people do tend to do this, however "young' is a different age for everybody. I grew out of it when i was about 10, some of the people i know are 20 and havent grown out of it yet. So I guess it's true, but the definition of "kids" needs to change for each person. Thats my opinion anyway.
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