Not Los Angeles. Los Angeles doesn't have a Senate... the only Senate in California is in Sacramento.

Am i out of the norm here? Doesnt this seem absurb? Yes teenagers have a morbid attraction to violence, its in their developmental nature. Without this morbid attaction our moral decisions would be limited and even more unstable than they are now due to the lack in parenting in this busy world.

My response to each of these:

1.An average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the video or computer game, taken as a whole, appeals to the minor’s morbid interest in violence.

-Is this a religious community? Define your contemporary community. Many of the people in that such community would be lacking the understanding and knowlege to explain and differenciate video games. Yes their is more violence in video games now, but what bout crime rates? Have they risen? Have they taken note of since the release of Doom that there has been a drastic decrease in gun related violence over the years? As peoples stress mechinisms weaken, games will become more violent to cope. There are abnormalities that respond differently or will use this as a scape goat. But through a non biased psychological reading of those people will show the problem is deeper tahn just a video game.



2)a game depicts violence in a manner patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community with respect to what is suitable for minors

-as stated in the first one, having crime prevail in a virtual world is a coping mechnism/release from actualy acting on these tendencies. but abnormalities will occur due to deeper psychological problems.



3)a game, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.

-Ah i love this one, if it wasnt for games as a whole, I wouldnt have such an intest in philosophy, psychological development, reading, research, and even any incling to further my schooling.



Though im probably not of the norm, but i disagree with their reasoning for such acts. This kindof reminds me of how science and certain breakthroughs were understood as witchcraft due to populace being ill informed causing fear and confusion. Yes you can connect games to any thing criminal but its because of versitility. There are more connections to violent games decreasing criminal activity than true connections outside of mostly biased psychological studies and minors using games as a scapegoat. Like the saying kids will be kids, and can and will use the best thought of excuse to try and put the blame away fromthemselves.

Here is the scray part;



The bill has already been approved by the House of Representatives with an 102-0 vote.



Noone objected??? You got to be kidding me, were the ones that were to vote aganst it playing video games??



Also, if the basic thing is not having games that are educational, didn't they just say that these violent video games were training grounds for murder? So they are educational. Aren't they, even in their terms.