Where Politics And Video Games Collide

@Benji

"But a few people listen, and are concerned, and don’t have the information available that one would need to know that the claims are false."

The information is already there. It's not that hard to do some further research on the game or at least ASK SOMEBODY who has played the game and isn't pushing an agenda. It's just that the people who believe these lies are usually gullible to begin with, and will take a person as unethical as JT at their word because they think "Oh, well if he was lying I'm sure somebody would have said so by now." The irony is that it's exactly that thinking that allows falsehoods like this to spread. If nobody questions them, then they keep on spreading from person to person until it's an almost universally accepted truism. Mark Twain said it best: "A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can even put on its shoes."

Either that, or these politicians HAVE heard the truth, but they don't listen and instead run with the fib. The reasons they would do this might be A)It's what they want to hear; and/or B)It supports their agenda. Now, I orignally thought that these attempts at legislation simply stemmed from a lack of knowledge about games and gamer culture on the part of the legislators. Recently, however, I'm beginning to think that these people are deliberately ignoring the facts and rubber-stamping anti-game legislation regardless. This belief would concur with my original view that these officials don't expect their bills to succed. They just want the attention and "family values" votes that go with them.