Lock me up!

Do add my discontent I will say that the whole brutality-in-games issue is “puffed” for the sake of moaning about it.
The violence is not the real issue. Children were always exposed to violence. Take the tales of Grimms or Andersen – murder, humiliation, pain and sickness. Were those stories censored? The problem is the fucking parents who let their children grow up alone without any guidance on what’s good and what’s evil. Most problems with mentally unstable teenagers derive from the same thing. Parents are simply not interested in their kids. Unlike animals, human children are mentally fragile at young age and will not develop properly on their own.
But violent behavior is nothing unnatural. I’m not saying it’s nothing to worry about, but for Christ’s sake, even sports induce violent actions. Parents should teach their kids how to deal with it.
The reason for games to get such bashing is that they are becoming wildly popular and that seems to be a good enough reason to have something against them.
Censorship seems to be directly connected.
What is the reason to make blood green or black? It’s still blood. Kids have enough imagination to figure it out. Censorship like that just makes gamers pissed off because they get a modified product against their will. And most censorship is applied for some abstract reasons.
Let me tell you a story from Poland. It’s not about games but gives a good image how it all works. We have a governmental body called The National Council of Radio and Television. It’s basically five people who take a shitload of money for doing more harm than good. There was a commercial by one of our mobile telephony provider – a little red riding hood was walking through the forest; an amusing song about her playing in the background. When she went behind a tree there was this metallic “snap” sound and the RRH was shown screaming with a leg stuck in a bear trap. The slogan was something about them not being able to tell stories.
What did the council do? Ban the commercial because, as they claimed, children were confused and didn’t know what happened to the little girl and why she was screaming, and that could damage their psyche. Yeah, right, like they didn’t see that a thousand times before in every single cartoon. Most of them seen a lot worse – in cartoons, news and movies.
I am all for rating games. If a game is brutal tag it with an “M” or “18+” rating, but leave the fucking content alone. Let the parents control their children and let adults play the game as it was intended.
In recent years I see this absurd situation escalating - the banning of Manhunt 2, changing No More Heroes and banning Kane and Lynch ads. It all balances on the edge of being ridiculous and serves no real purpose other than fattening the censors’ and moral screamers’ egos.