Current event #2

How many times have you heard such a phrase like "the child influenced by a violent video game stapped his sister/killed a chicken/beheaded a mosquito"? As a huge fan of games, I hear it in every gaming news announcement. And every single time I wonder how outraged parents blame virtual reality for that. I cannot express how weird and unclear it is for me. No one of them has ever said something like:"The problem is not in his Playstation, the problem is that we do not care about what games he plays and we do not have enough time and desire to watch for him". That is the point! Parents just leave unattended such an important element of the child's education and when their kid hits someone in the spirit of time-honored Street Fighter it is easier for them to say:"That is all because video games are cruel". For a long time I have regretted that such irresponsible people just go unpunished. But then, to the joy of mine, happened the next: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/parents-could-be-reported-for-neglect-over-letting-children-play-18-adult-themed-video-games-10141697.html

I was so glad to read this. Yes, for now this just local warning for parents. But this is for now. It is only the first step in the bright future where ALL (or, at least, a great majority of them) the parents filter digital entertainments of their child in the way they have to. This is not difficult at all; specially for persons who do not know how to work with a personal computer was created such a wonderful function as parental controls! Now you just have to make a couple of clicks and the rest of work for you will be done by your computer and Pan European Game Information.
I hope that this idea will not fall into oblivion and such a rule will be accepted all over the world as soon as possible.