Am I Allowed To Play M Rated Video Games?

[AndyDnom]

whatever you play will have way less sex and violence than the old testament, or book of mormon.

[Avatar4321]

Of course you're allowed. you have your agency. If you want to know if you should, ask the Lord.

 

My experience is if you have to ask you know something is wrong

[Tsuzuki]

My experience is if you have to ask you know something is wrong

In my experience, if I have to ask, it means I lack information.

[canard78]

My next rule: Imagine myself untold years in the future in the Celestial Kingdom and then ask, 'Do I seriously think I'll be saying, "Wow, I sure wish I'd done more <activity> during mortality"?'

 

I find this a far more positive motive for choices than any other.

 

I might even make it more immediate. In x years from now when I'm a few days from death, will I look back on my life and say "Wow, I sure wish I'd done more <activity> during mortality"?

 

With that in mind I really should spend less time on message boards!! 

[Kenngo1969]

"Allowed"?  Of course.  You have moral agency.  You have, I presume, been taught correct principles, and are allowed to govern yourself accordingly.  I probably shouldn't say this, but the Modern-Day Danites ,  (who are often mistaken for a police SWAT Team, what with wearing black, steel-toed boots, being black-clad from head to toe, and carrying various assault weapons and other such implements of modern urban warfare) are unlikely to hover above your house in a black helicopter prior to performing an aerial insertion by zip-lining from the helicopter into an open window.  No, no ... they tend to focus on egregious violations of Church protocol.

 

Now, having said that, perhaps you ought to consider whether M-rated games (and others, perhaps, whatever their rating) are the best use of your time.  As Elder Oaks might put it, are you worshiping any other gods?  As President Benson (who once said that when we put God first in our lives, everything else either assumes its proper place among our priorities or falls out of our lives entirely) might put it, are your family, God, His Church, and your fellow man among your priorities?  Just some things to ponder.  I believe these are correct principles.  Your mileage may vary, and whether you agree, and what you do with these principles (if anything), is up to you.

Edited November 20, 2013 by Kenngo1969

[Mola Ram Suda Ram]

Yes you can play M rated games. I have no issues with most of them. IF they have sex in them then no I won't play them. I also avoid games with excessive cussing. So no battle field 4.

 

I mean if I play Diablo III real harm is going to come to me I mean that hacking of monsters with animated blood is too much. You just need to use wisdom in your gaming. Just like you would with movies.

Edited November 20, 2013 by Mola Ram Suda Ram

[Kenngo1969]

whatever you play will have way less sex and violence than the old testament, or book of mormon.

Yep.  Those are the parts of the Scriptures we focus on most, all right.  Forget all of that bunkety-bunk about "Doing unto others," "Loving one's neighbor," "Choosing the better part," "Cleansing the inward vessel," and so on.    And of course, none of the violence in the scriptures has any sort of a context we should consider (e.g., "It is better that one man should perish than that an entire nation should dwindle in unbelief.")

Edited November 20, 2013 by Kenngo1969

[LoudmouthMormon]

Am I Allowed To Play M Rated Video Games?

Your question doesn't really have anything to do with the church or Mormons in general.  The answer really just depends on whether you are a dependent child living on your parent's dime, or a grown adult paying your own way in life.  If you're the former, then what you are allowed to do falls under their stewardship, and you should go ask them.  If you're the latter, what you allow yourself to do falls under your stewardship, and you should go figure out the answer for yourself.

Edited November 20, 2013 by LoudmouthMormon

[VideoGameJunkie]

I find this a far more positive motive for choices than any other.

 

I might even make it more immediate. In x years from now when I'm a few days from death, will I look back on my life and say "Wow, I sure wish I'd done more <activity> during mortality"?

 

With that in mind I really should spend less time on message boards!! 

And I should spend less time worrying about stuff.

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

I know the church has a stance against R rated movies, but what about M rated video games like Halo and Call of Duty? As you can tell by my username I like video games.

It does have a negative effect on the users or players...games love to say it does not. However to take that position, you would have to say nothing good can influence to be good; you cannot have it both ways.

[AndyDnom]

Yep.  Those are the parts of the Scriptures we focus on most, all right.  Forget all of that bunkety-bunk about "Doing unto others," "Loving one's neighbor," "Choosing the better part," "Cleansing the inward vessel," and so on.    And of course, none of the violence in the scriptures has any sort of a context we should consider (e.g., "It is better that one man should perish than that an entire nation should dwindle in unbelief.")

 

Likewise, most R rated movies aren't just non stop sex or non stop violence. But remember what president hinckley says would you bite into a apple if it just had "one bad rotten part" ?

 

so which is it? is the old testament an apple with a few worms in it?

[Nemesis]

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