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It’s a rule of reality, the more controversy something generates, the more idiots are attracted to it. I should name that after myself: Wayne’s Law of Stupidity.

 Grand Theft Auto IV is upon us and we have the usual crazies jumping out of the woodwork. Jack Thompson’s in there, as always, trying to play the media for all its worth with his tired old ‘murder simulator’ rhetoric and at least he takes issue with the violence.

Make no mistake, GTA is about violence. Alright, so is almost every other video game available anywhere, in some form or another, but GTA sells best so attracts the most parasites.

 It all started when the kids who shot up Columbine were found to have played DoomII. That’s rather like finding out that they used guns or that they ate food, what kid that age didn’t play DoomII? Do they want to ban food as well as games? 

To the parasites’ credit, most of them no longer have a problem with beating an innocent bystander to death with a baseball bat. No, the problem now is with the presence of strippers and prostitutes. “There are women in this game! They will corrupt our children!” scream the high-jihadists. The same dangerously psychotic people who will then give this game to their children! It’s RATED Mature, that’s 17+. No retailer should sell it to a child. So who will provide it to the children then? Their parents? Say it ain’t so!

Parents are quite happy buying their precious little snowflake DeathGoreBloodyMess II then dumping them in front of the electric nanny for a few hours while the kid gets on with digitally dismembering digital people. Only the really desperate for attention (Hi Jack!) would have any problem with that, regardless of how wrong it may be.

 That same parent then buys DeathGoreBloodyMessWithWomen II and there’s hell to pay!

Isn’t it the parent’s problem?