“Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.”- Mark Twain
OK this is a topic I can really get into, so thanks for starting this. OK in the end neither are really bad, to explain this further, let's look at why these things are so common on T.V. It's ALL about the rating and money, I mean I stopped caring about the news that plays on my T.V and just started researching things that are relevant to me. OK so I sound heartless, but when I hear "Kid murders mom because of video games", I want to go outside, rip my hair out and scream at the top of my lungs because there is NO logic behind that. First of all why the hell was he playing an M rated game, there is a reason why there is an ESRB rating system, on top of that you can't even buy a game that is M rated without a parent with you. So if a parent actually put their foot down and decided to actually raise their child the right way and gave restrictions on what their kid plays, we can avoid so much heartache and needless violence. OK now sex, which is also relevant, as reasons before, more ratings on T.V, more money ect. It's in our nature to do that, and that's reasonable, but parents should go over safe sex, which is ironically being censored out of school. So if you can't learn it in school and the parents refuse to say it, then you have kids running a muck, and teen pregnancy is through the roof. So now censorship, which to say bluntly, I hate it. I can a list on why, but I'm going to give some I can relate with anyone who decides to read my rant.
Censorship impedes learning, take my example on sex ed getting removed from school, which in the end, it's just basic biology and instinctive motivations that we are built with. It is also a form of propaganda, it removes the truth of what is there and replaces it on what we want to be there. Take Hitler for example, first thing he did was censor out every Jewish work and removed it from his society. I can continue, but hopefully you get the picture.
Now as a gamer, censorship is scraping the deepest part of the barrel. I can see why parents are concerned with games, because yeah they can be bad, but they fail to realize that THEY have the power to say "No, you can not have this game." Just imagine GTA without guns, or CoD without kills, it just wouldn't be fun. While some games are bad (like Ride to Hell) it is our choice as gamers to play whatever we want without censoring, and the parent's job to make sure their kid is being raised properly. Well that is all I got, to those wh read this good job take a cookie, I'm out.