Please Hammer Don't Hurt Them

   People are broken.  I catch myself saying this often, and I'm sure you'll see it several times here too.  It's the truth.  People are completely and utterly broken.

   I can't really put my finger on when I realized that this planet is infested with way too many simply stupid people, but every time I start to think perhaps maybe there might be some hope in the world, I'm slapped back violently into reality. 

  
   Story time.  Once upon a time there were parents.  Parents' jobs were to raise their children.  Part of this job entailed teaching the children the difference between right and wrong.  Reality and fantasy.  Teach them how to think for themselves.

   Those days, apparently, are long gone.  Now many parents leave the education and raising of their child to television, radio and video games.  What's worse, there are members of our Congress who have encouraged this sort of behavior with their "It Takes A Village To Raise An Idiot" campaigns.

    So anyway, back to the problem.  Seems like another failure of a parent has somehow allowed their child to get their hands on a game that wasn't intended for him, failed to adequately gauge the impact it was having on him.  He was so obsessed by this game that his friends noticed, but somehow mom didn't catch on.  Of course, ignoring your child will do that.  That's okay, though.  Even though little Warren faces life in prison, Mom will make sure that Rockstar Games pays (her).

   Of course, it makes no difference that the game in question is clearly (at least for someone with a 3rd grade reading level of their respective language) intended for an adult population.  Nevermind that every review about the game pointed out that this isn't a kid's game.  And, lest you have absolutely no idea how to read, the friggin box has a big friggin' M on the front of it.  As the damn kid at the desk what that means, if you don't know.

   But to make that effort, you'd have to care.  Clearly Warren's mom didn't, until it became obvious she could sue someone.