This is why MADD is extremely disappointed by the decision of the manufacturers of the game Grand Theft Auto IV to include a game module where players can drive drunk. Drunk driving is not a game and it is not a joke. Drunk driving is a choice, a violent crime and it is also 100 percent preventable.
Where have these people been the last twenty-plus years that video games have been around, hiding in some booze-free convent? If entertainment consoles had any bearing or influence on real life, I would've grown up to eat mushrooms all day and shoot fireballs out of my hand at the hammer brothers. There is absolutely no link between video games and violence, and the busybodiness and self-righteousness of MADD is really going to anger a lot of their would-be supporters. Besides, if MADD thought that a pixelated game imitated life so much, wouldn't they want to combat some of the more egregious social ills in the Grand Theft Auto series like shooting people in the face and beating the shit out of hookers with a baseball bat.
Root of What Plagues Society
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