Supreme Court allows sale of violent games to kids Topic

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http://blog.games.yahoo.com/blog/798-court-calif-cant-ban-violent-video-game-sales/

This is one of those things I am of 2 minds on...

On the one hand it reduces the role of government in our lives.

On the other hand it is unconstitutional to restrict violence from children?

So the side of a breast is forbidden, but extreme violence isnt?

And the fact that it was 7-2, with Thomas and Bryer dissenting. When did those guys ever team up? And everyone else is of one mind?
6/27/2011 1:48 PM
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This country has a hang-up about sex but violence is OK.  It's also reflected in the motion pictures rating system.
6/27/2011 2:55 PM
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Exposing them to violence early will make them better prostitutes when they're teenagers. 

6/27/2011 3:09 PM
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Posted by MikeT23 on 6/27/2011 3:09:00 PM (view original):

Exposing them to violence early will make them better prostitutes when they're teenagers. 

Even if I get your sarcasm...How?
6/27/2011 5:29 PM
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Posted by jiml60 on 6/27/2011 2:55:00 PM (view original):
This country has a hang-up about sex but violence is OK.  It's also reflected in the motion pictures rating system.
I realize that.

This is the Supreme Court saying, 7-2, that you cannot make a law that prevents kids from playing these games if they have violence in them. They seemed to reinforce that sex was completly different.
6/27/2011 5:31 PM
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Posted by swamphawk22 on 6/27/2011 5:29:00 PM (view original):
Posted by MikeT23 on 6/27/2011 3:09:00 PM (view original):

Exposing them to violence early will make them better prostitutes when they're teenagers. 

Even if I get your sarcasm...How?

Violence inflicts pain, right?

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/11/pain-brain-regions-also-active.html

6/27/2011 9:09 PM
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This still puzzles me.

What does Thomas and Bryer have in Common.

What does Ginsberg, Kagen and Sotomayor have in common with Scalia, Alito and Roberts?

Kennedy is always in the majority so no surprise there.

And the fact that the USSC would decide that a state cannot ban the sale of something to minors. Maybe Mike is right, we would have to have 16 year old hookers.
6/29/2011 5:38 PM
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Don't states already ban the sale of things to minors?
6/29/2011 5:39 PM
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Some things.

The US Supreme Court has now decdied that since video games are a form of expression and it is related to sex and not violence that the 1st Amendment protects it.

That is a bit of a Readers Digest version of the decision, but I think that sums it up.
6/29/2011 5:48 PM
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