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Old 08-06-2008, 01:24 PM   #69
Luvian
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Arrow Re: Grand Theft Auto inspires Thai murder

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Originally Posted by Cerek View Post
As Firestorm said, it depends on the store. You're also ignoring the internet sales of the game.

As long as you have access to PayPal, Ebay isn't going to check your age. A teenage could easily take their parents credit card and order GTA from ANY online store - including Wal-Mart.

As stated before, the ratings systems do NOT work. Therefore, the simplest solution is to NOT create games that require a ratings system to begin with.
All rules are useless if you're willing to commit a crime to break them, it doesn't have anything specific to do with video games.

Kids manage to get their hands on alcohol, so I suppose we should stop creating alcohol too? Oh, they also manage to get their hands on firearms! I guess we need to stop creating firearms!

Oh no! Some kids could get his hands on his parent's car keys and go for a joyride, let's stop creating cars too!

What about lighters? Some kid could set fire to something. Let's stop creating lighters!

Do I need to go on, or can we simply agree "Let's stop creating things because a kid could get his hands on it" doesn't make much sense as an argument?
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