No more exaggerated than what people say will happen if porn comes to the iPad. That was the point. I was exaggerating. Glad you picked up on that point but sad I didn't correctly convey the fact that I was intending to exaggerate.
The fact is we don't give kids enough credit. True, there are some truly psychopathic kids that will light things on fire but lets just focus on the normal people that compose most of society. Kids will pick up sticks and turn them into toys. They'll make them guns, they'll make them dolls, they'll throw them around, etc... They know they aren't real, they know they're imagining – in the words of my three year old nephew when someone asked him what his imaginary friend would do he replied, "silly, he isn't real." We're creative creatures. Part of that is coming up with weird and overly exaggerated scenarios. This can include hyper-violence or kinky sex when one gets old enough to handle such things (and again, it can be argued that some people never get old enough). Part of being a parent is making sure your child can grow and use their creativity in productive ways.
