A Video Game Has Been Outlawed

According to the AP Wire, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has been outlawed in Australia because with certain downloads there are very explicit sex scenes in the game.

The game involves a main character seeking bloody vengeance on gang-filled streets, firing automatic weapons and picking up women along the way.

After downloading and installing a modification to the game — one of many "mods" available on Web sites maintained by video game enthusiasts — a new world opens up in which the girlfriends appear nude and engage in explicit sex acts, according to thmodifications's author.

I've seen Grand Theft Auto and heard about what happens through a friend of a friend of an enthusiast and I don't see why it isn't banned in more places. That Australia is the first has been a surprise, but only because it is Australia and not the US or Britain. There is something inherently wrong about a game where a man can blow away a prostitute just to get extra money and power-ups. Supposedly only people age 15 and over can purchase this game, but we all know how that goes in the real world. At 15 young men are trying to decide on how to act in so many different situations (and older), so why feed the fantasy of destroying people to get what you want?

I don't believe video games "cause" people to commit crimes, they are extensions of fantasies, and I love them, but there are some games that need to have a little more of a handle on life than they do, especially the ones with real time mods, such as Grand Theft Auto because it is supposedly happening now, not in some future (and this in no way says furturistic extreme violence like this is correct or acceptable at all either). I'm not a prude by any means, but it does make sense there would be just a bit more of a guideline when it comes to violence against women and children and animals.