You know, over the years I have heard pretty much all the sides there can be made in the war against video games, what makes up those video games, and I have come to my own personal conclusion on how I feel people should view video games.
Too many people have been getting into uproars on what they find their children playing, that they never thought the game they bought their child and the game their child have been screaming and crying for months, had so much violence, sex, or other adult material. They think video games should be like pong, or like Tetris, or perhaps some My Little Pony simulator..... but once you put adult themes to something with the identification of "Game" then you've gone too far and you're attempting to corrupt children's minds and make them into crazy murderers or kids who run away from home because they get addicted to the game.
Now on the flip side, you have the counter-argument about video games being just entertainment, expression of a story or art, they're just for fun and shouldn't be taken seriously. This side get's into an uproar because the other side wants to take the things they find fun out of the things that are supposed to be fun. They feel that governments, law makers and protectionist groups are trying to police and restrict freedom of expression and all that good stuff..... and soon, nobody will be able to do anything unless it is run by the government first and their board of politically correct fear mongers.
But much of the things I see continually being left out of the arguments are the following:
1 - Almost everywhere you go in the world where you can buy and play a video game, no matter what computer you have, or what console you use to play them, they all have ratings on them that look sorta like these:
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