All of this is relavent to video games:
The same people who want to ban smoking, want to ban drugs, want to ban videogames, want to ban anything that is fun.
If video games are going to survive as any kind of artistic medium or buisness, we are going to have to move away from the reactionary "WHEN IS THE GOVERNMENT GOING TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!?!?!?! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!" mentality.
It is a culture war between intolerant reactionaries who want the government to control everything, and reasonable people who want to live their lives with some basic amount of freedom.
What suprises me is how many people in a forum for a video game development product are on the anti-video-game side of the issue (or at least support the anti-video-game people on everything but video games, thereby allowing them the political power to ban video games).
The same people who want to ban smoking, want to ban drugs, want to ban videogames, want to ban anything that is fun.
If video games are going to survive as any kind of artistic medium or buisness, we are going to have to move away from the reactionary "WHEN IS THE GOVERNMENT GOING TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!?!?!?! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!" mentality.
It is a culture war between intolerant reactionaries who want the government to control everything, and reasonable people who want to live their lives with some basic amount of freedom.
What suprises me is how many people in a forum for a video game development product are on the anti-video-game side of the issue (or at least support the anti-video-game people on everything but video games, thereby allowing them the political power to ban video games).