I think allowing pre teenage kids access to violent movies and games is probably harmful. When I was young there were fighting games, but they had poor graphics and it was all cartoon-esque. These days kids are playing games with quality graphics and blood spewing everywhere. They are shooting prostitutes and all sorts of things; quite graphic.

I think the disintegration of modern society has come from a variety of sources, but access to that kind of crap when you are still trying to make sense of the world is probably not too healthy. They should be reading a few good books at that age and learning a thing or two and instead they live in a world of fantasy violence.

Not that I am above that, mind you. I quite like blowing up buildings and garroting people, but I'm old enough to know that I would never want to do that kind of thing in real life. I never had access to that kind of stuff as a kid and I wouldn't want my kids playing those kinds of games either. Sonic and Mario are far better games for youngsters.