NO.

 

thats my answer, the government is stupid.

''oh, i killed a generic alien enemy, now i feel like slaughtering people''

and my personal favourite, from a person commenting on the team fortress 2 age rating:

''since he fired a gun on this game, little johnny's likely going to run around chopping up all his pets and labelling the chunks''

 

Anyway, what are your views on the topic?

Well, for those in realistic nature like GTA sure it's quite YES but for your example, I may agree with you, as long as it's not realistic it's okay.

I'm not saying this like parents-like, but I've read that some brats really confessed that GTA made him did burglary. And for safety I think it's kinda ok for some violence-themed games being banned, not everyone is mentally-stable as we do, close-to-psychopath people do exist. The only way to prevent them from thinking anything bad is by them not knowing it, I suppose (or maybe at least that's what govs think)

 

Also I chose second option and I'm not an idiot, I've stated my reason for saying that here. Someone should really change those words on that poll

i think that for some games there should be just 3 ratings:

- E (Everyone)

- T (Teen)

- T+ (equivilent of an 15 age rating)

and obviously keeping the Ao rating for ''adult'' games

 

it is a fact that the younger you are, the smaller the difference you see between real and fake. so age ratings to have to be put in for that, but i don't think a 12 year old boy would be scarred for life by playing something like bioshock.

 

and i'm sorry about the poll, at the time i didn't think about the other side of the arguments, therefore nobody would say yes. i can't change the poll though, it won't let me