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Paul,

With all due respect, the US Army uses video games as recruiting and training tools because they are effective methods in a society where most kids spend a lot of time during their teenage years playing video games.

Don't confuse correlation with causation. As the volume of video game sales has risen in the US, in many areas, crime and violence has decreased per capita.  I'm not necessarily saying there is a connection, but there is a correlation.  Maybe kids are staying home and playing games instead of hanging out with nothing to do and ending up causing trouble?   I honestly have no idea.

I think the Supreme Court decision reinforces that parents must be responsible for monitoring their children and determining what is appropriate for them and I support that.  I don't want some politician who may be pandering to a special interest group making broad decisions about what my children can or can't do based on an arbitrary standard.

Imagine a state government restricting RPGs to adults only because they may contain adult themes.  The original AD&D books contained depictions of nudity and descriptions of demons and devils which were based on real mythology.  If some overzealous state government had restricted them to adults only, my teenage years would certainly have changed for the worse.

Rick Smathers 


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Cardwell <hippogriffpub@yahoo.com>
Reply-to: Paul Cardwell <hippogriffpub@yahoo.com>
To: car-pga@googlegroups.com <car-pga@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [CAR-PGa] Suplreme Court decision
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:36:58 -0700 (PDT)

Truly bad cases make bad law.  I do not agree that video games resemble RPG in any significant way other than the same charges against video have been used against RPG.  Granted, a specific cause and effect cannot be proved in either case, but one must ask if there is no effect, why does the US military use video simulations as a training, and even first-person shooters as a recruiting device?

I don't agree with Thomas' "reasoning" - that minors have no rights.  However, I note the majority did not answer Breyer's dissent which asks a more important question of why minors should be permitted to participate in rape and murder on a video screen, but by law must never view the unadorned human body in a non-sexual context.



Paul Cardwell
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