Violent video games, your parents, and you

My upbringing was a very liberal one. It would be highly hypocritical of my parents to restrict my game playing when I've seen movies like Terminator 1 and 2 and the Godfather when I was a wee lad. Plus the notion of violence is pretty much around me through my house hold with my dad's fascination with World War II and my mom's fascination with serial killers. Though they did a very good job of raising me as I do know the difference between fantasy and reality. In fact, when I first was getting really into games, my parents were more concerned about my grades declining and not the content of them.

The only time I've had games restricted from me is when I was a friend's house and we were playing Street Fighter II. It started to become a very heated much, so much so that tempers were lost and his mom said we couldn't play fighting games anymore. I guess you could say that the fighting games caused our own real life violence, but I think it was because of the competiveness of the situation that caused it.

Whenever I have kids, I will be pretty liberal with them. I turned out just fine, just as long as I explain what is fantasy and reality to them, and be truthful to them, they'll be perfectly fine.

Jam it back in, in the dark.