Phyrfight Intel

“San Francisco is considering a ban on the sale of goldfish. Basically, the government is afraid that people are getting fish as impulse buys and not treating them properly, so they don’t want to allow anyone to buy them at all. They’re also considering a ban on parents having their babies circumcised.

They’ve already banned Happy Meals, as they think they’re too enticing to children and parents can’t be expected to control what their own kids eat. Also increasingly regulating the daily behavior of its citizens is New York City under Mayor Bloomberg, who has banned trans-fats city-wide and smoking in most of the city and has considered a ban on salt.

The leaders of these cities have taken it upon themselves to place their own opinions of what people should or should not be doing above basic liberty. They’ve made it the government’s role to be a nanny and have ruled individual choice as unimportant.”

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-real-story-of-americas-founding/

“[The] … BBC, is reporting video games might actually be a reason for a decline in U.S. crime.

The story is based on a study conducted by the Centre for European Economic Research and, according to those smart-sounding British folks; games ain’t so bad after all.

… According to the study, U.S. crime has been on the decline for the past two decades. This trend has continued, it would seem, despite the recent economic crumble. According to FBI figures, crime has actually been on a steeper decline these past couple of years.

Video games are another factor, according to the study, because they kept “young people off the streets and therefore away from crime.” According to Texan researchers working on the study, this “incapacitation effect” has “more than offset any direct impact the content of the games may have had in encouraging violent behavior.”

In other words: Why would kids want to risk committing actual crimes when they can commit them consequence-free from the comfort of their bedrooms?

http://www.joystickdivision.com/2011/06/study_says_games_to_blame_for.php