Grand Theft Auto, Promoting Bad Behavior? Options

[Paradox of Life]

Grand Theft Auto may be encouraging people to murder people, jack cars, consider policemen as bad guys, create gangs, graffiti, use weapons, use bad language etc. Although the game is rated M it may still be promoting bad behavior from people 17 and older or their younger siblings. Nothing can prevent younger children from watching their older siblings play or even play for themselves. Should there be stricter rules? Every person I know that has the game Grand Theft Auto is under 17. I know people the ages 9, 10 11, 12, 15, 16, and possibly more who have played Grand Theft Auto. Should it be banned from stores? The games feature the several cusswords (including Sh** and Fu**), multiple weapons (slitting civilians throats with daggers, guns), running from cops, stealing cars. Sure it's fun, but is it really worth it if people start turning into "bad guys"?

[CreateBlob]

If thats your argument, then it seems as if there's a subtle implication thats its wrong for a responsible adult to play the game

Well, that is my implication. >_<

A child kills someone. An adult kills someone. Both have done something wrong, no?

Thats a valiant effort on your part to take a stand, but the fact of the matter is that our society is in the crapper and to blame GTA for the violent and hateful crimes of the world would be ridiculous. I said it once and I'll say it again, it's up to the parents. If my mother told me today that she didn't want me playing GTA, I wouldn't play it.

But aren't there possibilities of children getting such media by secretly importing it in? If there was no porn at all, for example, children would never get it. If there was porn on some subtle, distant website, children could sneak into it without their parents knowing.
One does not know what sex is until they are exposed to it (..via sex-ed, perhaps).

[pandamonium]

But aren't there possibilities of children getting such media by secretly importing it in? If there was no porn at all, for example, children would never get it. If there was porn on some subtle, distant website, children could sneak into it without their parents knowing.
One does not know what sex is until they are exposed to it (..via sex-ed, perhaps).

yea your right if a child is exposed then it turns dangerous.. but like what i said. if you do things like that you would have to ban everything. like if we didnt want our future generation of kids doing the same stuff that we do now, we have to be strict and ban everything from internet, video games, tv, and or even books. i dont really agree that its the parents fault cause kids are curious and the happen to soak information. the only thing by preventing bad knowledge to leak out like that is by taking a strict ban..

im not saying that we should start now by not watching tv but i dont think we will ever reach that point. the only way of letting our kids now know about sex drugs and violence is by being strict and i doubt that will happen. if it does then think about it we can probably reach a utopia of no violence.