Louisiana continues south's trend of dictating what knowledge is allowed to youth

The Louisiana senate has passed a bill today (HB1381) which further stifles the sale of violent video games to minors, a bill co-authored by the notorious jack Thompson, enemy of all that is good and pure.

The exact wording of the bill seems sketchy, saying that it is illegal to sell/rent games to minors if an "average person" believes it would "appeal to the minor's morbid interest in violence"; or if the game in question "depicts violence in a manner patently offensive to prevailing standards"; and finally if the game "lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value for minors."

Anyone found guilty of breaking this law can expect to be slapped with anything from a $2000 fine or even up to 1 year in prison.

What worries me here is the use of "average person". Laws are important, they keep us safe while we sleep, they prevent tyranical leaders from going all gestapo on the citizens. Hurray laws. But when laws are written with a phrase as uncertain as "average person" I get worried. There is no such thing as an average person, last time I checked average was impossible to gauge because everyone is odd in their own way. So by "average" do they mean right-wing christians with a distaste for freedom? Because that's obviously who passed the bill.

I'm telling you, eventually we (being the left-wing or nonaffiliated (see: enlightened)) will be huddled in NYC and California, our last bastions of non-religious imposed freedom. People scare me.

\\drew