Violence: PLAY THAT GAME

“6. Video games are not a meaningful form of expression.
"Violence has always been and remains a central interest of humankind and a recurrent, even obsessive theme of culture both high and low. It engages the interest of children from an early age, as anyone familiar with the classic fairy tales collected by Grimm, Andersen, and Perrault are aware." Posner adds, "To shield children right up to the age of 18 from exposure to violent descriptions and images would not only be quixotic, but deforming; it would leave them unequipped to cope with the world as we know it."
This I Thought was an interesting comment made by the Appeal Judge Richard Posner. I have always believed that not showing a child some sort of violence, controversy or any altercation will lead that specific child in a path not suitable for OUR social construct. An example that hit home personally is the difference between how my older brother and I were brought up in school vs. our little brother.
We attended a public school, which was predominately black for the 1st 7 years of school then attended a small private school. The things my brother and I came in contact with (i.e. fights, stealing, gangs, etc.) prepared us more than what my little brother went through. Him only being in a private school, where zero violence was occurring, no real problematic children, more “sheltered” children like himself around him, led to him to become certainly DIFFERENT from my brother and me. Granted, we WEATHERED him up some so he was more aware of these things, but his friends have never seen things or were exposed to any violent activities. It is easy to tell who has been around some sort of violence or is exposed to it, and who is not. Mannerisms change, confidence is lower, and some are ignorant to some things they do in “THEIR WORLD”, vs. what could be the repercussions in the “REAL WORLD”.
Society as a whole was founded, birthed, and the spread of cultures where we are today have been the result of violence of some sort. Violence is and will be something WE will always be attracted to and flock towards. Without it, where would we be today???