VIDEO GAMES AND T.V TEACH TO KILL...

Agree: When i read the sheet, the phrase that impressed me the most is the statement: "We're not just teaching kids to kill. We're teaching them to like it". I agree with this statement because right now, there're so many companies that created games that are violent. Not only that, they're also advertise their violent games on the T.V, so everybody could see it. All the kids could see those advertisements, and it would have a really bad impression to their mind. The thing that mostly occurs on these games is killing, fighting, or even sexuality. And these things are not appropriate at their ages, because they're too young to understand that these are just fake. Killing could appears everywhere to kids' minds, and it could stick to their head, and it would form a bad personality for the kids.
Disagree: Besides all things that I agree with Crossman's opinions, there're still some points that i don't agree with him. Crossman compared children's life to soldier's life, that are they have to live in a dark place. But to me, there's a big difference between these two lives. To children, they could see all violent games, or even sexuality, and the only bad thing could happen is when they memorized it and do it. But there's a really small amount of kids who tried to kill people, because they're not strong enough. Besides that, there is no big force to push them to kill people. But for soldiers' life are going to be different. They were trained by the government or by the armies, and they have to kill people (mostly are bad people) if that is a mission from the government. Soldiers have a big force to push them to kill something, and it would be serious.

Should twelve and thirteen year olds be able to play any video game they want?

To my opinion, there're two ways to answer this question. The first answer that I might say is childrenat age 12 or 13 have rights to play any games they want to play. When children playing games, they could express themselves, throw out stress, and relax. Besides that, when children playing games, maybe they could gain more knowledge about life or history. Children understand themselves that what games do they want to play, and what games could make them feel better. But this condition just only could apply to children that know what are they doing, and they have to know how to control themselves. Not only that, they still needed to balance their time schedule between playing and studying.
The second option would be no. The reason that i say children at age 12 or 13 shouldn't play any games they want because it might have a really bad effective to their life. Right now, there're lot of company that created many violent games like killing with dangerous weapons. There're some kids understand that what they saw on games were only fake. But some of them are not. That's why there were many accidents from kids at age 12 or 13 that are killing each other just because of jealousy or any small things. It happened a lot because the children thought like when you killed somebody, they will become normal again by putting blood and energy. But there're some kids killing people on purpose, because they was effect by all violent scence in the games. Not only that, many children didn;t communicate to other people around them just because of playing games too much. Some of them also get mental problems.
So finally, what i just want to say is that children could have their own decision on what they want to play. But besides that, their parents also need to know what games their kids playing, to know is it approriate or not. Both children and their parents should talk about games, to balance everything in life...