It is called the "Nanny State" and the current UK Labour government are specialists in this practice.
God forbid people should make their own decisions. I have no conpunction to stab somebody in the back just because I play Battlefield 2142 and that particular process awards me a nice little dog tag. The reason because that is a game and real life well it is different because it awards me a very long spell in prison.
It is true that the UK has a knife culture problem which needs to be stamped out but the culture is not derived from games it is the particular social groups that crave carrying knives and that is far more complex.
Enter stage left the UK BBFC and its reasoning why it is all right to slit a throat in a film but not a game.
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God forbid people should make their own decisions. I have no conpunction to stab somebody in the back just because I play Battlefield 2142 and that particular process awards me a nice little dog tag. The reason because that is a game and real life well it is different because it awards me a very long spell in prison.
It is true that the UK has a knife culture problem which needs to be stamped out but the culture is not derived from games it is the particular social groups that crave carrying knives and that is far more complex.
Enter stage left the UK BBFC and its reasoning why it is all right to slit a throat in a film but not a game.