The Supreme Court just struck down a ban on selling violent video games to minors. Some are happy, some are pissed, while I couldn't care less. Society seems to be heading down a path of self destruction and I'm not talking about entertainment. I really feel like we're trying to censor too many things while thinning out our skin. My video game life started around the Atari age. Back then we had Pole Position II and Ms Pac Man. As systems advanced so did the realism and violence of games.
I never heard of Mortal Kombat until the local news ran a special talking about how it was going to cause kids (me) to beat the shit out of each other. I ran to the carryout and started playing. It would be another three years before I would get in a fight and at no point did martial arts moves come into play. Then came Doom, Duke Nukem and some other violent stuff. I haven't fired a gun yet.
I didn't have a mother and father at home telling me that guns and fighting were wrong, instead I had good ol' common sense. I used to watch the news as a kid and I grew up in the hood. I knew that when people get shot, there are no continues or extra men. I also knew a very important truth...people don't fight anymore. Karate, Kung Fu and all that other silly shit is for matches and tournaments. Even if you do somehow manage to beat someone's ass with a drop kick, you better hope you learned the Bruce Leroy/ Last Dragon technique of catching bullets with your teeth, because fights in my neighborhood never ended with "Oh, he beat me...I won't bully him again." Shiiiiiiiiit.
So I don't particularly care if the law is upheld or not. I think we need to teach kids common sense and then they'll be better equipped.
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