I am so sick and tired of these 'Mothers with a cause' and mainly because all of their arguments are weak and baseless. Why is it that we allow ourselves to keep listening to such idiots, if you suffer from epilepsy, you certainly don't do anything that can trigger it and then blame as many people as possible, barring ones own self. This constant dumbing down and censoring can be found in all forms of media and life, where children are remotely involved, and some single mother has to go and ruin it for everyone because she couldn't be arsed to properly educate her kid.

Alex Brant, Wallington, England, land of free speech and stupid opinions.

I suffer from epilepsy myself and ive been an avid games player for years.
The fault lies squarly at the parents doorstep,you dont develop epilpsy from playing games ,you either have it or you dont,its as simple as that.

if she knew her son suffered from epiepsy in the first place what was she thinking letting her son play in the first place,
she must of bought the games console,the game,dont Nintendo games allready come with epilepsy warnings ?

Its impossible to test games to see if they induce a seizure in epileptics because they all have the possabilty to..theres more factors to take into account than just the flashing lights,tiredness stress those 3 combined can induce a siezure.I know of loads of things other than games that can induce siezures .Maybe i should start a campagin to get those banned too .The sun flikering through leaves on trees lets ban those 2 please oh and TV & Films.Ban everything that might cause any possible harm!

Epileptic Gamer, London, UK

Whether the official epilepsy test is adequate seems to be the issue here, not whether the test was carried out. But then we are talking about Videogames here, where rationality, as per usual, seems to be absent. It's a videogame, therefore it must The Problem.

And there ARE warnings about epilepsy in every game manual. Games ARE vetted for epileptic triggers. Even after her son had a fit, the mother STILL doesn't know this? It doesn't sound like she has done any research (aka parenting) abut this at all.

And when John Penrose says ALL epileptic triggers should be taken away from children, does this mean televisions, too? Banning all strobe lighting? Does the risk of injury mean we should not allow children to do sports?

And despite the rules already in place, a politician wants even more laws. How utterly surprising.

Jeremy Anderson, St Albans, UK

What a load of rhetoric crap. Video games don't 'poison' youth at all, only a small percentage of people are epileptic and prone to seixures. Hell Television poses a higher risk to seizures than video games do. Every game I've ever played came with a warning that it may induce seizures in epileptic people so if we had to make sure every game was safe for epileptic people then we may end up banning video games all together.

As a great man (Mark Twain) once said
"Censorship is like saying a man can't eat a steak beacuse a baby can't chew it"

Father Time, Simi Valley,

I'm an eighteen year old and an avid video gamer and on all recent games (including Rayman Raving Rabbids), from my knowledge contains a leaflet warning about epilepsy and guidelines on how long is recommended to play the game before resting your eyes. What this doesn't tell us is how long her son was paying the game for and how often, this could have a detrimental effect on the eyes and in turn make them much more susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy. The manufacturers already do screen the games thoroughly but I believe that if they introduced more easily accessible and understandable guidelines to parents on how long a video game is to be played there wouldn't be as much of a problem.
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