Malaysian Consumer Advocate on Games: It's Up To Parents to Prevent "Fat, Violent Kids"

So, is he saying that all fat kids are violent?

"It is the parents' duty to ensure they don't contain violent content."

Correction: It is the parents' duty to ensure that games don't contain more violent content than their children should be exposed to. That might seem like a minor distinction but it's not, because that amount differs from person to person. My mother never let me play Mortal Kombat as a little kid, for fairly obvious reasons, but she let me play a Star Wars third-person shooter when I was six. It contained no blood or graphic violence but as a shooter I'd argue that it was still a "violent" game.

By the time I was twelve she probably would have let me play Mortal Kombat if I really wanted to, because she thought I was mature enough to handle it by then. But I didn't really like fighting games as a kid anyway. =P
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I'm not under the affluence of incohol as some thinkle peep I am. I'm not half as thunk as you might drink. I fool so feelish I don't know who is me, and the drunker I stand here, the longer I get.

Okay, so when Malaisia is more enlightened than most Western countries on the issue of games, what exactly does that say about us?

Well, at least he's putting the responsibility squarely on the parents' shoulders, as it should be.  Although, I'm mildly offended that he thinks the games will turn the kids into violent deviants.  Fortunately, in his mind, they'll be FAT deviants, so it's not like they'll have the energy to do much damage.

''Just as many failed to realise the dangers posed by junk food''

CORRECTED:

''Just as many fully realise the dangers posed by junk food but didnt care enough to do something about it''