Kim Komando is running a poll this week concerning pending California legislation that would make the sale of adult video games to minors illegal. The poll asks if we need a law or if the industry should regulate itself, much as the movie industry does.
As of 2:22 PM Sunday afternoon, 67% believe a law is in order, 30% think the industry should be able to handle this on their own, and 3% lack the mental capacity to form an opinion. I suspect this is the same 3% who would be uncertain whether or not it might be a good idea to evacuate a burning building, but are sure that their Democratic fathers in Washington will guide them on the path to salvation.
To the 67% I ask, "What is your problem?"
If one who is presumably a functional adult lacks the capacity to decide whether a good or service is right or desirable for them, perhaps they should not be permitted to roam loose in our society. If they are unable to make that decision for their minor children, or enforce that decision within their own households, perhaps they should not be parents.
It is not the government's responsibility to wipe the butt, zip the fly, and relieve every US citizen of the burden of evaluating options and implementing choices in the living of their lives. People who advocate more laws for everything from abortion to the control of Zithromax simply want to abdicate responsibility for their own lives. That is not the mentality that built a continent spanning nation in well under two hundred years
Wake up! Seize control of your own life. Sit down with your families and make your own decisions, based on your own values, goals and ideals. It is not a crime to want something you don't have. It is not a moral injustice to seek to better the existence of you and those around you. It is not fundamentally unfair that some are not as equally successful in their strivings as others. You have a God given right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. YOUR right, not your government's right.
Yeah, I just wrote "God". You have a problem with that? Well, too bad. I refuse to be Politically Correct enough to even contemplate giving a damn.
If we don't collectively wake up as a people and reclaim our birthright, every snide comment ever uttered by an American against the despised French will apply to us more completely and accurately than those comments have ever applied to France.
One can only hope it is not to late for us. Our history since leaving Saigon with our tail between our legs begins to suggest that we are little more as a nation than a petulant, overpowerful bully. The moral vision and spirit of adventure and advance seems to have slipped through our fingers after reaching its apex at the conclusion of World War II. Those ideals and those achievements are still available.
Is our grasp up to the task?
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