Cartoon Violence

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At the same time, they see no threat in titles such as 'Super Mario Bros.' When I squish a koopa, I get extra points. What did it ever do to me? How can you say new games make murderers out of people, when this doesn't?

Because Super Mario is nonsensical to allow people to realize that what's happening in the game isn't the norm - turtles don't try to attack you, throw hammers or fly. A giant Dragon-Turtle doesn't steal your girlfriend, who's also the princess of a magical mushroom land.

It allows people to separate themselves from the game. Now, if they were playing Doom 3, or GTA, an extremist might believe themselves in enough trouble to actually whip out a gun and start shooting.

Now on to "Political Correctness." Political correctness seems to have a huge bias. (That being, Conservatives mainly, think it's a retarded concept in the first place.) The idea is, we trash morals, and replace them with something friendlier. Obviously this would mean politically correct, and correct, are nearly polar opposites.

Political correctness is based on the opinions of society, and what society as a while believes is the norm. I don't agree with many concepts of what is considered to be politically correct, such as calling black people "African Americans." They're black. I'm white. I'm not "British Canadian," I'm white.

Can you believe that there's a woman arguing that because Resident Evil 5 takes place exclusively in Haiti, or a nearby area, where the main enemies are black people, the game is racist? Never mind that Haiti is the origin of Voodoo, and Voodoo has the earliest documentations of people coming back from the dead. Never mind that Haiti is populated almost exclusively by black people. no - you shoot black people, you're racist. The other 50 games in the series where you shoot white people and Spaniards, she could care less about.

There will always be extremists, those who argue things into the ground when they don't know the full story. In layman's terms, these are the people with sticks up their bums.

Simply put, if my child does something wrong, I can go two routes.
1; Punish him/her.
2; Be politically correct and let them turn into a bratty kid, later to bully on other kids.
Hmmm... Choices...

Being politically correct doesn't mean you can't punish your kids. However, Psychologists have discovered that it's better to reward your child for a good job rather than to punish them for a bad one. It's all about reinforcing good behavior instead of punishing the bad behavior.