Thursday, September 20, 2007

Hilary vs. Grand Theft Auto

I think that this article by Johnson as a rebuttal to the Clinton Administration's 90 million dollar study on the effects that video games have on children and the recent stand that Clinton took against the game Grand Theft Auto. I don't remember this situation but I can infer that this project is against video games and that Clinton must have made some stand saying that Grand Theft Auto was distructive to young minds. I think Johnson is telling Clinton that it is stupid to look at something like a violent video game and to blindly look at the bad things it causes without considering any possible good things. Clinton has not considered that the game allows kids to explore the thrill of stealing cars without actually stealing one. Instead Clinton sees the game as teaching kids it is fun and ok to steal. The interesting fact are, however, that since the games release, the crime rate for grand theft auto has decreased. Clinton, of course, has not considered this.

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