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What you will see in your son’s game, if this iteration of GTA is anything like its predecessors, is incredible interactive violence aimed at police officers (whom you can shoot in the head and see the blood spray), innocent bystanders (whom you can run over with your car just for the heck of it), and of course the plentiful female prostitutes you can have sex with and then filet with a knife or stomp with your feet in order to get your money back.
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Any kid can go right to little Strauss’ corporate web site and buy GTA IV with no age verification.
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Mr. Thompson's rhetoric aside, are the above statements true? Just curious.
I am all for freedom of speech and freedom from the government.
I firmly believe that if people want to shoot virtual cops and abuse virtual whores, by all means, let them do it. It is just a game.
By the same token, it should be perfectly OK to shoot, say, virtual gays.
Or other virtual minorities. After all, it is just a game, right? I am sure a lot of people would enjoy shooting virtual liberal gays. I mean, of course you will have to be 17 to shoot virtual liberal gays (unless your parents think you are mature enough to start shooting virtual liberal gays earlier).
And no, I don't think this is a logical fallacy.
