i don't have kids, so i understand that i'm missing context.

would i take the games away from my own kids? what i want to say is that i'd raise kids that wouldn't want to play them. i mean, i never wanted to play; i was often around them, but i never had any real interest in them. i know it's not that easy...

i guess what i can honestly state is that i can be fairly confident that i wouldn't buy them games, no matter how much they'd ask. i just wouldn't do that to them, i'd consider it negligent. and, they could cry and yell and scream, and i wouldn't give a fuck - i have good headphones. this point i'm confident on: i would not give the games to them, so i would not have to confiscate them. and, to the extent that i could screen gifts from relatives, i'd screen any kind of video games out.

beyond that, i'd have to recognize and acknowledge a deficit of control. i think i'd have the right to decide what i give to the kid as a gift as that is my own will, and the right to opt to give them other things, but i wouldn't have the right to interfere at too great a level beyond that. and, if i were to end up with a kid that wants to live in some other person's house and rot their brains out with game systems all day, i'd have to accept it and let the kid go.

but, i would hope that the issue just wouldn't arise, that i'd raise a kid that is inquisitive and thoughtful enough to think that video games are boring......because they are boring, and the fact is that the smart kids will get that on their own without being forced away from them.