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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
(it really upset the librarians that she allowed me to read Stephen King's It in English when I was only 13)
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So what.
I watched movies at 8 and read books at 12 that I wasn't supposed to. One of my greatest all-time pleasures are smashing people into walls using a race car (Carmageddon II) and to headshot Germans as a sniper (Return to Castle Wolfesnstein). I enjoy over-the-top gory and bloody games such as Phantasmagoria, and I find the most gruesome ways to explode pleople (Dragon Age: Origins). Back in the day, I loved killing people by shooting one limb at a time off of their bodies (Soldier of Fortune). I get a kick out of movies in which people are tortured and killed in the most horrific ways possible.
Actually, I just finished the Decepticon campain in War for Cybertron, in which I spend 20 minutes playing Megatron, pounding Omega Supreme into the ground using various types of weapons and rocket launchers.
My maniacal laughter while I did it made Megatron sound like a mewling kitten. Pity I didn't have a Transformers-sized chainsaw available to finish the job.
Apart from the fact that I have fun with that, it doesn't have any effect. I don't have the urge to go and kill / torture / dismember people in real life. (Most of the time, anyway
) Actually, in reality, I have trouble killing anything larger than an insect or a rat if it doesn't threaten me directly.
Some kids/people can handle shit. Others can't. It's for the parents to decide. They should know best. IMHO, I think everything will be fine as long as a child is taught what is fiction and make-believe and what isn't. In a computer game, it's OK to shoot people. In real life, it isn't. In movies, we have zombies and spiders as large as a horse, in real life we don't (I hope).