New Law In Germany - I Cannot Shoot A Sprite

[hitbyaprkedcar7]

A quote to sum it all up. Forget who said it, the exact words, etc, but here it is.

"If video games affected the way kids think and act, then we would all be running around eating cherries, and dancing to repetetive electornic music"

 

[IR1]

You say that as if Americans were in a position of vast moral superiority when it comes to killing ethnic minorities or committing war crimes.

By the way, America is a socialist country, too. The free market doesn't decide how large our military spending is, or how much to spend on road construction--the government does. That's socialism, not capitalism.

I think this is probably good news for the rest of the world, though. After everybody sees how stupid (and in practicality unenforceable) this is, then similar laws in other countries won't be called for. I mean if you're in Germany, just drive over to Denmark, Poland, Austria or other neighboring country to get a version of the game that isn't gimped. Alternatively, I'm sure there will be unauthorized patches of the game that undo any politically correct castration.

This looks to me to be less about distancing themselves from the past and more about political grandstanding to "think about the children of this country." That's the same thing that politicians everywhere grand stand about, you know?

My comment was about Germany distancing themselves from their past. I said nothing to the likes of "The US is so perfect we have a squeeky clean past and we have nothing to hide! Shame on Germany." You are just throwing out some generlized attack on me that is not even relevant to what I said. Try to follow a conversation. The USA does not try to overcompensate for our past mistakes. IE Slavery (thanks Portugal) was a terrible part of our past but no one alive today had anything to do with it. My point is, for example, Germany would probably have passed laws for reperations for slaves (or decendants?). See the overcompensation is what im talking about. Germany is overcompensating. Now you either agree with me or you don't.