Let me tell you why you are a silly goose TC. A silly, silly goose.
Firstly it is more than likely you are underage or in your early adulthood. Either way, you don't have children. You don't understand why parents feel the way they do, until you have kids of your own. Secondly, you are the kind of guy that is like 'i'm gonna be that hip, cool dad and place minimal restrictions on what my son watches lolol!!' thinking this will make your child love you. Not only this, but you assume this media will only have violence and not any other content where it might be questionable to show to children (gratuitious swearing, nudity, sex scenes, drugs, etcetera).
Now, lets move on. You come off as the type of gamer who has a victim complex all because of what people like Jack Thompson say. 'I turned out all right so you can shove it Jack lololol!!' not only that, but it seems you partly want to use yourchild just to prove these people wrong, because as i said, you have this gamer's victim complex going on. furthermore, it seems you don't even care what interests yourchild might have, you just want him/her to have your interests. That part you mentioned about raising him to love video games? Why not let him decide what he's interested him instead of raising him to be an ultra 1337 gamer (which is what you want)? Furthermore, if you think showing yourchild'all the great video games i played as a kid' makes you a good father, you've got several things coming at you at once.
To my next point, you seem to think there is only an extreme left and extreme right when it comes to violence. Like many people in this thread, what i would let my kid watch/play varies depending on the levels of violence and how old they are. You seem to think everything is ok at any age, and like i said already this 'violent media' is more than likely going to have something else in it that is questionable. Finally, you seem like the kind of guy (and this is the fault of most parents) who is holding unrealistic and whacky expectations of how their kid will turn out, what they will enjoy, etcetera. You don't know thathe/she will enjoy video games as much as you do, just because you are his dad. There are probably other hopes you have for your children as well, all which will leave you disappointed when or if they don't achieve it.
Good day.
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