- IIDWells55XII
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- Exalted Legendary Member
I'm 17.
Children should be allowed to play violent games when their parents feel they're mature enough and emotionally ready. I personally have been playing Halo 2 on Live since I was 14 when it came out. I played Medal of Honor: Allied Assault online from when I was 11 to 13. No one knew I was a young kid, all that mattered was that I was mature over the text chat and could drop people with a bolt-action. I've been exposed to a lot of violent forms of media as a child and the only thing it's done to me is desensitize me to other violent media. I'm not desensitized to real life violence in the least; I can't even watch those surgery shows on Discover Channel. Video games and other media aren't ruining children, so long as the ones being exposed to it are parented properly and mature enough to handle it.
I've played violent video games for a long time now. I've played all those games politicians would have you believe turn kids into killing machines. I've been exposed to games with bad language, drug usage, etc. It hasn't mattered. I graduated high school with a good GPA and good SAT scores, never been in a fight, never drank or did drugs, I don't even swear. All the crap you hear about video games warping children is just completely untrue.