All: Psychiatrist: Game Laws are Crazy

NCXCStud · 10-July-06, 09:57 AM

A board-certified psychiatrist from Oregon is calling attempts at game legislation “lunacy,” and states his belief that violent games actually help avoid bad behavior in the real world.

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Originally Posted by NextGeneration


	“These laws are nuts on so many levels. To start with, no one has any idea which games are off-limits,” said Dr. Jerald Block of Portland in an opinion piece for The Shreveport Times. “…Applying a strict reading of Louisiana's law, you can earn jail time by selling Pac-Man to a 17-year-old. After all, what is Pac Man but a fight between the player and four pixilated ghosts, each doing nothing but consuming each other and their surrounding landscape. That sounds like violence to me.” Full story at NextGen

Vertical_Zer0 · 10-July-06, 12:40 PM

In the cases of myself and most of my friends, this guy is right. However, there are some troubled individuals out there... this has been discussed over and over again but it usually comes down to poor parenting.

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10-July-06, 12:40 PM		#2 (permalink)
Vertical_Zer0 Apex Advanced Techie	In the cases of myself and most of my friends, this guy is right. However, there are some troubled individuals out there... this has been discussed over and over again but it usually comes down to poor parenting.