UK Researcher Wants Parents Arrested for Buying Kids Violent Games

[FalloutJack]

Geez... I realize that parents shuuld know better, but isn't this going a bit far?

Of course it is. It may not be appropriate to give a kid a game over his head like letting him see an R-rated movie, but then again...parental discretion is advised, not enforced.

 

[ReinWeisserRitter]

This would be going too far in the "hold people accountable for their actions" direction, and believe me, if there's one thing I feel strongly about, it's people being held accountable for their actions. Children being bought games by their parents that said parents come to find inappropriate? Completely, one hundred percent the parents' fault, no ambiguity whatsoever; it's your responsibility to know what your kids are exposed to. Jailing parents for it? Pants-shittingly stupid.

 

[The White Hunter]

Please tell me no one on that side of the pond takes this lunatic seriously.

I'm here and I don't take him seriously.

Though there is a valid point buried in extremism; parents really should take responsibility for it, I really do hate being screeched at on an online fps by some 10 year old little shit with absent parents.

Also prosecute doesn't mean jail. A fine of around £80 would be a siginficantly greater deterent and wouldn't make people martyrs for being jailed for something so trivial.

Know what is bullshit? A person can be with their kid buying the latest call of duty, clearly for the child, and because the parent is there the retailer will sell it anyway.
That's why there's such a large amount of minors playing games rated 18.

I also think that rating games higher based on violence and childish portrayals of sex is a bit silly, since I've grown up I'm alot less interested in that kind of thing and much more invested in enjoyable gameplay than spectacle, though that said I never really bothered with violent games until I was around 15 and even then they were MGS3, Resident Evil 4, DMC3, etc.

Le sigh.

I'm gonna shush cuz I seriously think I lost direction entirely here and have no idea the point I was initially trying to make...

 

[ResonanceSD]

Excellent idea, probably not going to be great in practice -_-' Making people take responsibility? Yeeeah.


Although it's just occurred to me that Team Fortress 2 is free, and I keep getting the screeching treatment from 12 year olds with headsets -____-'

Seriously, ban kids from headsets.