Yes, as a parent the responsibility for making sure my children don't play this type of game falls upon me. However, what if a parent is negligent is that duty? Do we wait and hope that the kid turns out okay? I doubt GTA by itself will make kid go shoot a cop, but if a parent isn't watching what video games the kid plays, what else aren't they paying attention to...?

I am a small-gov't proponent. I think the less gov't is involved, the better. But where I do think gov't should be involved is protecting the people from corporations. GTA should be able to produce this game and make money. However, not one dime should be garnered by selling it to children.

But the problem is that the only entities capable of enforcing this are the retailers, who are out to make a buck. Since there's no repercussions for selling this game to minors, why not make some more $$$.

The other entity is the parent, and we're back to square one.

So the only option I see (unless there's another?), is to police the retailers like they've started policing the movie theaters.

I know the kids are downloading hacked versions online anyway, but you do what you can. Perversly, I feel better about a kid pirating a game they're not old enough to play versus the game makers profiting from selling the kid a game they're not old enough to play.

Sorta like it's expected for little boys to sneak looks at a Playboy, but if dad just lets 'em look at it, that seems wrong.

The best option would be for mom and dad to both sit down and look at the Playboy/play GTA with them and explain what's going on. It would be uncomfortable, but you signed up for this when you became a parent.

My $.02
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