OK, I wasn’t going get involved in this but since some of you are insisting on being all for censorship and actively mentioning Columbine I have to interject!
People need to stop treating forms of media as a scapegoat for the horrors, stupidity and inhumane actions of some individuals. Blaming games, music for things that happened just because the individuals involved in certain horrors, have some sort of contact with these forms of media is just asinine.
People need to stop this, because it doesn’t help anyone it only adds to the problem. Nobody and I mean nobody, decides to do a crime because they saw it on some Show, saw it in a Movie, heard it in a Song, or played it in a Game. People do bad **** all the time, nobody tells them to do it, they just do, unfortunately its part of life, can’t have the good without the bad. Any idiot saying that this is caused by the media that these persons are involved in, shouldn’t because it simply isn’t true, and in fact that person saying this, does so out of ignorance.
Everyone in this post, has had bad **** happened to them, everyone has played a rated 18 game, everyone has heard a rock or country song( yes some country songs are worst than some rock songs) at some point or another, or seen a rated 18 film. No one here wants to do anything horrific, I’m sure all of us have thought about it as some time or another, but you just don’t. Why? because you can distinguish between right and wrong. People that do horrific things do not have that moral compass or at some point in there lives, that compass tips a little and they loose focus of what is good and bad. And it is not directly influenced in any shape or form in what they have seen heard or played or read in a book, the night, the day,week,month or year before.
The correct way to deal with these situations is to try to stop having them happen from the get go, how? Well, have some parents actively involved in there children’s lives will be a good start, have people be more polite to each other, this could be as simple as an acknowledgement of existence by a passer by, stop bullying(in schools and in the workplace), and stop trying to step all over one other for personal or financial gain.
And stop following asinine people who have nothing to give to the table and simple shut the f*** up if they have nothing constructive to say or do.
Bit of a rant, I apologise, but censorship is something that I do not believe in, and strongly advise anyone reading this against, its wrong on so many levels. They are restrictions in place for people/ kids who shouldn’t have access to certain things, and at the end of the day, whatever it is ( film, show, song, game, book) its just a story for gods sake! we have always told story’s since before we could talk! Its entertainment, it doesn’t influence what you do or say or act, well it shouldn’t.
Peace.
“Be excellent to each other!” Bill and Ted.
