Roger Ebert claims "video games cannot be art"; molests children.

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Originally Posted by Mike McC

I'm sorry if I don't quite buy that people really believe that 'all things described as Art is Art." Everyone draws a line on what is and is not Art. To say that they don't is either naive, or decietful. Naive, because they never really thought about it, probed thier limits. Decietful, because they are hiding the truth to make thier point.

Everyone draws a line.

Well, in most cases, those lines tend to be drawn as merely a matter of preference. "I don't like X, so X is not art." And, in each of those lines, an argument can be made against it, usually one stronger than the argument made to draw the line in the first place. You may call not drawing such lines naive or deceitful, I call doing the opposite foolhardy and shortsighted.

And the narrower our view of art, the more we as a society risk stifling ourselves creatively.