The poll is a bit weird. Violent video games do not bother me as a person, but they do bother me if they're being exposed to small children, which shouldn't happen. However, games should be allowed to be more violent if they want to be. Games tend to be held down due to publishers and rating boards of how violent of a game can it be, ignoring that they can classify it so adults should be the only ones playing it. Yes, it's nice to be able to run and gun, but I'd also like to be able to, essentially, bathe in the gore. I'd like more games that push the envelope and test the moral boundary of "should this really be a game?", partly because I think the video game culture needs to test it's audiences to see what they want, not various groups.
There's only two games in recent years which was violent enough to question "is this what you want?", first being Manhunt (with the second one tamed down due to the publisher and various groups, not the audience) and the second one being the school shooting mod that got ripped down, which fair enough that it was partly due to the average person who plays computer games saying how it just simply wasn't right. I wouldn't agree, but I find myself to have a loose set of morals. When moralistic people (e.g. classification board at times, Jack Thompson, random Christian groups (random note, you never hear about other types of religious people preaching about computer games)) lead to a game being banned, nothing is gained, only lost. When it's the average person that leads to a game being banned, we evolve as a culture and start to define more of where our morals lie and what type of games we do want.
