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# I think I saw 'Robocop' when I was 13.
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.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Tue 2 Sep 2008, 13:45, archived)
# I can't remember where but i read a mark twain quote yesterday about censorship
"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.
(I helped save b3ta! arrangedletters, Tue 2 Sep 2008, 13:47, archived)
# Oh, I'm with you...
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.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Tue 2 Sep 2008, 13:49, archived)
# it's no more effective than putting up larger circles with numbers in
to stop people driving too fast. 'Twould only be effective if efficiently enforced.
(I helped save b3ta! RiffRaff lurking like a lurky thing, Tue 2 Sep 2008, 13:52, archived)
# the circle represents a law
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.
(I helped save b3ta! yanmania... last shagged your mum on, Tue 2 Sep 2008, 13:58, archived)