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		<title>Kevin McCullough on Mass Effect</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a recent furore about this conservative american&#8217;s comments on Mass Effect on one of his recent blog postings. He posted a rebuttal to his blog earlier. There&#8217;s not much to say that hasn&#8217;t been said, but whereas the &#8230; <a href="http://nathanwong.co.uk/blog/2008/01/15/kevin-mccullough-on-mass-effect/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s been a recent <a title="Kotaky: More Mass Effect Political Dickery" href="http://kotaku.com/344462/more-mass-effect-political-dickery">furore</a> about this conservative american&#8217;s comments on Mass Effect on one of his recent <a title="The Sex Box Race for President" href="http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KevinMcCullough/2008/01/13/the_sex-box_race_for_president">blog postings</a>.<br />
He <a title="Kotaku: Mass Effect Political Dickery Corrected" href="http://kotaku.com/344873/mass-effect-political-dickery-corrected">posted</a> a <a title="Life Lessons" href="http://kevinmccullough.townhall.com/blog/g/ad4fece3-3a1e-42bd-8546-295599024191">rebuttal</a> to his blog earlier.<br />
There&#8217;s not much to say that hasn&#8217;t been said, but whereas the first post I just found funny, if a little saddening, that someone of Kevin&#8217;s apparent esteemed worth could be so wrong, the second just made me angry that he could continue to misrepresent the game so grossly.<br />
He also did a radio show tonight in which he invited phone-ins. I attempted to keep a transcript but kept forgetting: as mesmerised as I was by his words.</p>
<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m not owning an xbox, it&#8217;s not something I&#8217;m concerned with. I have real things to do with my life, I have a family to feed and provide for.</p>
<p>Sincerely apologise for breast comment.</p>
<p>Beyond that, the substance was all correct.</p>
<p>For me personally [it's the most sexually explicit game] I&#8217;ve ever seen. Says the non-gamer.</p>
<p>You can create, to some degree, custom bodies.</p>
<p>If the game is getting into the hands of 15 year olds then is are the regulations working?</p>
<p>Explicit or implicit? It depends on your definition of explicit. There was a little view of the [arse] and a flash of the breast&#8230; a hand through the crotch of the girl: female stimulation, if you will.</p>
<p>Yes. First of all I think it is always the parent&#8217;s responsibility first and foremost [...] the fact that we have this society in which we&#8217;re pushed more towards the more explicit, the pushing of the envelope in every regard when it comes to every type of material on the globe. Europe is more liberal [...] I don&#8217;t want to become Europe [!...] I don&#8217;t know that that&#8217;s where we want to set the bar for the whole of society. There are a great number of people across the country who share my values. Parents who say I want to be the one who introduces my child to the idea of sex [...] It appears to me that we are quickly evaporating the ability of the parent to limit and control what their children have access to.</p>
<p>Am I saying we set a federal guideline in place? Probably not. Can parents have a hand in this? Absolutely. Can regional communities put pressure on this issue [such that this sort of material can only be sold in a small shop down the end of the lot? I hope so!].</p>
<p>It seems to me that we have an epidemic of non [...] enforcement of obscenity.</p>
<p>I lot of libertarians do not like the views of moderate viewpoint conservatives.</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t have legitimate freedom, you cannot have  a legitimate moral free society [...] without standards and moral values. [...] Is this what happened with Mass Effect? No.<br />
Libertarians really do want the influx of morally reprehensive material to be available! Do right minded people want that? No!</p>
<p>Our founders [...] understood from a very pure perception that democracy in a vacuum void of God would not work. This is why is cited thousands of times amongst the Founder&#8217;s early writings.</p>
<p>If you have to drive to the edge of town to buy a smutty game, then why not for a smutty video game?</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Edit:</strong> As this posting seems to have received a little attention, I can only update this to say that Kevin has apologised for his mis-interpretation of the game (a good thing), though he still disagrees with the nudity that <em>is</em> present in the game. Which given his consistent stance on TV and movie content, is fair enough; even if I entirely disagree, it&#8217;s an entirely valid opinion.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d suggest turning your ire towards Fox News&#8217;s rather embarrassing coverage of this issue a few days after; but that&#8217;s already blown over. Even the silly woman apologised (after she was Amazon bombed&#8230;)</p>
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