The beeb’s Panorama ran a show about games being addicting…

*yawn*

Good intentions often pave the way to hell. It’s easy to blame companies for all of your ills. But the bottom line is this: we here at Double Cluepon love games. The “omg game companies have to be stopped because little johnny is addicted, and he wants to shoot up a school” stuff has to stop. It just does. If you don’t want to parent your child, do not have children. If you do not want to take responsibility for your actions, okay…but then you simply must accept the direct consequences of your actions. That’s reality. Blaming someone or something else falls into the Kindergarten behavior matrix. Stop it. kthnxbai.

TL;DR for Gamers:

I am Azrael, and I am here to ask you a question: Is a man or woman not entitled to the game of his own choice?
No, says the reporter in Panorama. You will get addicted.
No, says the lawyer in Florida. You will shoot up a school.
No, says the Mom who does not parent her child. I think the government should parent my child for me.
I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose…personal responsibility!
A concept where a person accepts that they are responsible for themselves, without the need for someone else to tell them what is good and bad for them.
Where the parent pays attention to what their children are doing, and actually parents them instead of asking a government to do that for them.
Where the game developer was free to create what they want, without worrying about being sued by someone looking for a settlement.
With a teaspoon of clue, personal responsibility can be your policy too!