Boys will be boys.

Is this Grand Theft Auto computer game about which there has been so much hoo-haa, any different in essence from the games we played as kids with wooden guns, shouting "Bang, bang, you're dead"? More sophisticated, more graphic, more emotionally intense and perhaps more morally equivocal, to be sure, but basically the same sort of thing. So is it dangerous? Well, there will always be those who find it difficult to separate fantasy from reality, just as there will always be those who need little excuse to be violent or cruel to others, but children and young people - boys especially - have always played bang-bang type games using the available technology - wooden guns in my day (or cap guns if you could afford them) and computer graphics today. Plus ça change, and all that...