http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/2/3828182/connecticut-town-holds-drive-to-collect-and-destroy-violent-video

well. If I happened to live in USA, suppose this would be good chance to get rid of the last of my room space hogging physical game boxes and discs + profit :)

But about saving the world part - I wonder when they get free health and mental care in the states? I dont claim to real understand they healthcare system, but ive understood that pretty much "no-no" unless you got the money yourself.

Sounds like a video game plot.

I'd rather save video games by destroying world.

Moral guardians gonna moral guard.

I guess that's OK. Here in Poland we have obligatory government health insurance and for lots of money paid for that insurance we get healthcare that's crappy beyond wildest imagination - so if anybody really cares about health, he\she has to pay another insurance for something that isn't totally worthless.

They must really miss the dark ages.

That's some extreme fanatism... but I'm more worried about the toxic smoke from the burning... (:P)

*Edited* deleted a rant about healthcare. I've decided to be happy instead of angry today.

Same here. I was extremely sick (left arm didn't work) and went to a doctor that my employer paid for - so, better than "free". The doctor made me write the suggested course of treatment on my own piece of paper in my own handwriting and then said that, since they lacked an x-ray machine, she couldn't properly diagnose me, so she wrote NO COMPLAINTS in my med record. Fucking centipede-infested gender-neutral sex organ, that doctor.

Wonder how they didn't thought of air polution after that. I'd like to see some environmentalists jump in :D There would be proper fun. Plus for me I've dclared that some people in the states must have the brain cells of grass - just that dumb. Sorry if the last thing offends someone but just my oppinion.
EDIT: I think everyone would be happy in my country - Bulgaria. Search it up can't be that hard. Our Prime minister fell asleep at the Noble Prize Ceremony, In the speech our president gives for New Year the showed the Rocky Mountains as one of our mountains. Just on the go here :D

My situation is a little better as my employer has a contract with a private medical institution so for very little amount of money I have access to some good healthcare.
Still, just as anybody who works or has a company, I have to pay (well, my company has to so nobody really sees it but it's still taken from my wage - if more people knew how it works they'd burn down that government insurance company) for that godawful government insurance which I'll never use.

Amen to that.

I can't understand why they keep pointing their fingers so much at video games. We have violent movies, tv shows, comic books, as well as very lax gun control laws and a failing mental health system, but in their eyes it's only video games that are the problem. Doesn't seem to make sense to me. Be happy you can afford to deal with it. I can't afford insurance so I'm basically sitting around hoping I don't get hurt or sick until my state creates a cheaper solution (which should be coming soon).

Some people everywhere have the brain cells of grass, it's just more apparent because of the size of the U.S.(and possibly because it is more prevalent).

P.S. Your country sounds amazing. I think life would be a lot more fun over there.

That sounds brutal.

The public health care has deteriorated in Finland over the years - but still, despite all the complaining its pretty damn good. Ofcourse if youre working in some company you propably can you some private doctor as well - but i dont see any reason to run away from the public sector. Actually private doctor has sent me to public doctor, as i got the particular tests done faster and cheaper that way.

Anyway, I think it should be pretty damn obvious that free, proper health care would be good for everyone - even to those who "dont need it". I mean, think about all the people who have mental problems and cant get them treated - you wouldnt want to live next to untreated schizoprenic or seriously lunatic manic-depressionist person would you?

Similarly there are lot of people who cannot work because the ill one way or the other, but COULD if they just got themselves treated - be it physical or mental.

Heck - if nothing else it would be even in the super rich people's best interest to offer as much free health care services as they could. You wouldnt want to live in a sick society would you?

Here it often works the other way around - you go to a public doctor and often he wants you to pay him for a private visit if you want to get decent treatment. During that "private visit" he still uses public equipment.
This is what happens if politicians and bureaucrats get too much power and most people are ignorant about their rights.

You can pry them from my cold, dead hands.