spreading democracy

It's good to know that legal liability is starting to replace personal responsibility in China, just like it did here. A family is sueing the distributors of a Warcraft game after their son killed himself because of the game.

Here's the goofy shit here. Number one, the company they're sueing didn't start up until 8 months after the suicide. Good job to the prosecuting lawyer on that one.

Number two, the kid killed himself after playing the game for 36 hours straight. Now, in China, there's not nearly the prevalence of high speed interent connections at home, so this kid played the game for that long in a public game hall. That means he wasn't home for AT LEAST that long. Now, if my kid missed dinner, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I'd be a bit worried. I guess it's not that big a deal when you let TV, video games, or whatever entertainment that doesn't require effort on your part as a parent be the babysitter for your kid. It's prolly more expensive to pay a babysitter in China than it is to pay for one and a half days of hardcore gaming for your kid. Huh.

Still, it's good to know that parenting has gone down hill the world over. Not just in the states.