Unfortunately we're living in a society today where their is a moral majority of 40-50 year old house wives of conservative powerful white men who are all about censorship. Personally I believe that censorship should only be based within the home. If a parent finds material objectional for their child they should simply not let them see/hear/play it. There should not be any governmental control. Personally it's bad on the development side of the rating system because we have to base content for games on what our publisher has decided our ESRB rating should be. ie not using words like "die" or "death" in a "t" rated game, because apparently, according to the ESRB it's harmful to teens to think that their cartoon on the screen dies when you are bitten an excessive amount of times by <insert random enemy here>
Bah I say!