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I know, I know, BUT, if we freak out about games, then there are tv, movies, alchohol, drugs, cigarettes, guns, knives, pipes, horses, pitbulls, angry cats, paper (it can cut).... etc...
"Social Responsibility" is kind of a myth. Sports figures and celebrities get shit all the time because the are looked up to by kids as role models, so if their behavior is bad, then kids will emulate it. True, but they have every right to be as screwed up and irresponsible as the rest of us.
I understand your concern, especially since everyone is now afraid that their kid is going to get mowed down in a hail of lead because some kid got his asskicked every day from 4th grade on, but the games have shit to do with it. As it has been said before, thousands of times, if the game is going to influence the kid, the kid wasnt wired right to begin with.
Hey, Ted Bundy tried to say porn caused him to murder women. Never mind he was maybe 5 or 6 when he snuck into his sister's room with a 10 inch knife and just stood there grinning at her until she woke up and started screaming. I'm sure that had everythign to do with him looking at penthouse 20 years later.
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