Video Games

I recommend that everyone stop by A Soldier’s Perspective and read the comment posted titled, Video Games are not real life, as it is an important piece to read, especially by anyone with children who are gamers.

Video games have always been a very sore topic in my house and one my two nephews are constantly at odds with me. Video game companies are constantly creating gang related, meth cranked violent games where the players become a gang member, shooting police, beating their woman and blowing away other drug dealers in a quest to dominate the neighborhood. I am not going to name these games, but I am sure every parent with gaming children knows which games I am discussing.

The war games are another pet peeve of mine, sure, they are fun for the kids, but teaching that you can kill without thought or remorse safely from your soft chair without fear of a bullet or object entering your body wounding or killing you is not my cup of tea. As the letter, CJ posted points out, real life engagements are a quantum leap over the fantasy filled gaming environments. The noise is deafening, the fear is overwhelming, your adrenalin is pushing you farther than you have ever gone before and often when it is over the only outlet your body has coming down from the adrenalin is to violently shake.

War is not the only venue for this either, as a police officer it can happen at any moment, any second, and it happens all too often because respect is no longer an issue that went out the window long ago.

All we can do is responsible parenting, monitoring what our children are doing and teaching the values and morals, the rest is up to them.