Many good posts on this thread. I don't doubt that media affects people. I also don't doubt that many people are affected by media much more than they should be.
Personal responsiblity should be exactly that, and for minors, it should be the responsiblity of the parent. But media gets a lot more facetime for the minor than Sunday dinner with the parents ever will. Parents have it hard in this day and age and if I ever have kids, I'm sure it won't be any easier.
Paul Smith quote definitely holds weight with me.
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Paul Smith is a First Amendment lawyer who has represented video game companies. "What you have in almost every generation is the new medium that comes along. And it's subject of almost a hysterical attack," says Smith. "If you went back to the 1950s, it's hard to believe now, but comic books were blamed for juvenile delinquency. And I think what you really have here is very much the same phenomenon playing itself out again with a new medium."
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Every form of media has its growing pains. The video game industry is no different. And the video game industry also doesn't take this lightly. At the Game Developer's Conference (which is going on this week), topics such as this are regularly addressed. The IGDA routinely discusses the ramifications of events such as this. This is a young, prosperous industry, but it's also working to be a responsible industry.