(폭력) 비디오 게임의 폭력성
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The topic of violence is in the news tonight on another front. Video game! Some of them are, of course, gruesomely섬뜩한 violent, and the worry is they can trigger undue과도한 violence in young people. The Supreme Court is now involved in this issue. Should violent games be sold or rented to minors미성년자 at all? That story from our justice correspondent Pete Williams.
Wading걸어서 건너다 into a decades-long debate, the justices agreed to decide whether some video games are so violent that states can ban selling them to anyone under 18. At issue is a 2005 California law signed by governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that bans the sale or rental of video games to children that show killing, maiming불구로 만들다 and other violent actions, and that appealed to “deviant벗어난 or morbid병적인 interest of minors.”
Since the school shootings of the late 1990s by young people who played violent video games, advocates for children have argued that some games make them more prone to violence. “They're more aggressive. They tend to be more, more bullying. They tend to live in fear of the circumstances around them unnecessarily. They tend to resort to violence as a solution for conflict.” Laws to limit sales or rentals to minors had been tried in all or parts of 10 states, but each time the courts have declared them unconstitutional, restricting free expression.
Video game representatives say there's no proof that the games actually cause violence and they ask, if games can be restricted, what's next? “If it's extended to other forms of media, would it impact movies? And other forms of entertainment, music? All of that could be negatively impacted.” The industry also says parental controls can effectively block young children from seeing what they should not, though many parents say children know how to defeat those controls. For more than 40 years, the courts have upheld지지하다 limits on a minor's access to sexually explicit material. Now the Supreme Court must decide if violence is as harmful to young people as obscenity외설 is. Pete Williams, NBC News, Washington.