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won’t somebody please think of the children?

that seems to be the rallying cry for all of the parental councils/advocacy groups/organizations in instituting their clean-cut, wholesome values… from the 1950’s.

these so-called “values”… what are they, anyway? one can only guess that they’re so out-of-date and unrealistic in today’s society that only the amish and a few tribes in papua new guinea would be able to follow them. do these “family values” apply to watching soldiers dying every day in iraq on the news? or the media onslaught of hearing how michael jackson invited kids to “sleep over”, and the parents that allowed it?

the latest uproar, over grand theft auto: san andreas, is little more than a bandwagon for political alarmists to jump onto. anyone familiar with the game (who the hell isn’t?) is more than aware of the total freedom allowed within its environment – but most notably the extreme violence (carjacking, murder, etc.) that it’s notorious for.

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