Quote Originally Posted by abracax View Post
I partially agree with you. I agree that people need to behave responsibly, however, we should not feel responsible for other peoples children on the internet. As a parent I feel horrible when I see some kids spend their entire life on the internet. I have to wonder what kind of parent they have that allows them to hide away somewhere in the house and spend all their time online. Too many kids I have talked to like this have parents that are basically non-existent. The parents really want nothing to do with the kids unless they can take credit for something good the kid does.

So, no matter how responsibly you may behave, they have shoved their kids at the world to be the worlds responsibility. You as a parent have your own children to worry about, you cannot feel responsible for every child that gets on the internet and possibly ends up in a chat with adults joking around about sensitive subjects. Besides, as someone pointed out, there is no one saying "I'm 7yrs old, please don't talk like that". I have come to recognize who is male, who is female, who is a kid, a teen and an adult in games or forums. Not everyone can and we shouldn't have to try to. I enjoy treating everyone as an equal and being able to shoot the bull with people in games without worrying about content of the discussion and the age of others involved.
I agree with you to some extent and am not suggesting we babysit for absentee parents (be it physically emontionally etc.) but we do have a duty of care to our neighbours be they adults or children. To use an EXTREEM example if you were at the beach with your kids and saw someone elses child drowning would you do nothing just because their parent was not paying attention to their child but was fast asleep or face down sunbathing. As I say an Extreem example but where do we draw the line and say this is not my responsibility.
As I stated earlier as this is a free game it will attract children maybe it should carry an age rating for example NOT SUITABLE FOR UNDER 15's. If the game was on sale in a store then it would carry one.