Interesting commentary going on in the OFF TOPIC forum

Been watching and reading the couple of threads related to personal freedoms, video games ratings and underage gamers (under 17) playing M rated games. One of my all time favorite movies is V for Vendetta. I own the DVD and the Audio Book which is on my iPod. That movie has quite a message on sensorship and control by the government based on fear. I love the line: "People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of it's people" How true.

If you haven't seen the movie don't read further but go rent it.

The "hero" is a terrorist against the government partly due to what the government did to him personally and what it has done to the country and it's citizens. I watched the "making of" section of the DVD and Hugo Weaving (who plays V) had a good point (at least I think it was him - it could have been the guy that plays Gordon Deitrich) that one mans terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Whether someone is considered a terrorist or not depends on the perspective that person is being viewed from. Tho in the movie V does not target innocents in is fight against the "evils" of the government. He blows up buildings and kills those personnally responsible for the suffering he and others endured at the hands of those in charge of the detainment camp he was imprisoned at and experimented on.

Regulating the sale of video games is already being done by the industry through the use of the rating's system. It is up to the consumer to take individual responsibility for purchase and use of any particular game. Parents should be taking a more active role not a less active one in raising their children. It is not the government's responsibility nor is it the school systems responsibility. We are moving further and further away from personal responsibility and blaming everyone else. Just look at how clogged the courts are with lawsuits that seek monetary compensation for perceived wrongs that in many instances are just seeking to lay blame on someone else.