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- Apr 29, 2003
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Originally posted by: bullbert
Originally posted by: Brule
Originally posted by: Narmer
Your complaining about government officials doing their job? It's their job to look after your welfare. Let them debate this and reach their own conclusion, hopefully with your input. Let's face it, games are become very violent and they are just doing what people ask of them.
Disturbing.... wow.
That's not how a constitutional republic operates. Officials are not all powerful, they are given certain limits within which they must work. Banning media is not one of their granted abilities and (unfortunately) an AO rating is a ban for all real purposes. The console companies have every right to determine what games they want and don't want on their consoles, and through their own rating system they "want" Manhunt 2 on their systems.
+1 on changing the way ratings work and for consoles utilizing the AO rating.
Issue #1: Banning media
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But, but, but, I was taught in Public School that it was Government's job to legislate morality. No drinking. No drugs. No gambling (except through Government required investment and insurance scams^H^H^H^H^Hprograms). No voilence in media.
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Issue #2: console companies have every right to determine what games they want and don't want on their consoles!?!?!
No, no, no, no, no. That is just the result of a bought-and-paid-for judicial decision to allow monopolies on hardware consoles cartidge interfaces. Cartidges are no longer used, but the courts allow the monopolies to continue. Should TV manufacturer be allowed to determine that DVDs you display on them. Should Bill Gates be allowed to determine that only the Microsoft verision of Solartire be allowed to run on your PC (as in no Hoyle, no Bicycle, etc). I hope you come to understand how rediculous your statement was.
You can't run a game on the Wii without including on the disc software to which Nintendo owns the copyright. I believe the same applies to the Xbox 360, and I would be surprised if the same did not apply to the PS3. The same does not apply to PCs.
I hope you learn to spell ridiculous.