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Fred Liken wrote:
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> "Doug Jacobs" <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote in message
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> >> I can recommend Lego Star wars - suitable for 3 and up.
> >> They can just wonder around doing stuff, or you can play
> >> the game with them as it is 2 player. good fun. my 4 year old
> >> loves it.
> >
> > So, Simpsons Hit & Run is too violent, but a game where you run around
> > with a light saber cutting down droids and what not is considered "OK"?
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> What's so hard to understand about that? There's little chance of a child
> building a functioning light saber. There's quite a bit of a chance of a
> child kicking people and yelling arse.
and there is a great chance that a child will pick up some lump of
wood or such and lamp another over the head with his 'light sabre'
we're straying into the 'do video games/cartoons/films/books/breathing
cause violence' zone again.
To a small child everything is a fantasy, even real violence can seem
like a game. They learn as they go along, and as long as the message
is clear that it is a game and that killing/beating people up etc is
wrong then they learn that, and if they don't learn then they have a
problem, which the game will only be a small part of. It's when they
start pulling the legs off next door's cat you start worrying
--
Paul (And I'm, like, "yeah, whatever!")
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