I started drinking consistently aged 15.
We're not very good at stopping people who are under 18 from doing things (ed)*only* people over 18 should do.
Plus if you're still living at home with your parents, you're still dependent on them, you're still a child. That can be anything up to the mid-forties these days.
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Tue 2 Sep 2008, 13:45,
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We're not very good at stopping people who are under 18 from doing things (ed)*only* people over 18 should do.
Plus if you're still living at home with your parents, you're still dependent on them, you're still a child. That can be anything up to the mid-forties these days.
"Censorship is like banning a man from eating meat because a baby can't chew it."
i don't know why i feel it is pertenant here.. but ho hum.
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Tue 2 Sep 2008, 13:47,
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i don't know why i feel it is pertenant here.. but ho hum.
I like GTA, and I don't kill people in real life for entertainment. I just don't think putting a little circle on the front of the box is the best way to prevent young impressionable minds from playing it.
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Tue 2 Sep 2008, 13:49,
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to stop people driving too fast. 'Twould only be effective if efficiently enforced.
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Tue 2 Sep 2008, 13:52,
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the law is undermined by parents buying the game for their children.
if the government intervened in a parent buying a game for their children, the 'nanny state' argument would be wheeled out. Fuck being in government... you try and make things nice for people and they piss all over it.
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Tue 2 Sep 2008, 13:58,
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if the government intervened in a parent buying a game for their children, the 'nanny state' argument would be wheeled out. Fuck being in government... you try and make things nice for people and they piss all over it.