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Matthew Jeffery: Grand Theft Auto VI will be violent – that doesn’t mean its players will be

It's a test of whether we still trust them to run their own lives without supervision. Thatcher herself called liberty a moral quality, one that carries accountability for how each person uses it.

Matthew Jeffery: Grand Theft Auto VI will be violent – that doesn’t mean its players will be

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It's a test of whether we still trust them to run their own lives without supervision.

Thatcher herself called liberty a moral quality, one that carries accountability for how each person uses it.

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It's a test of whether we still trust them to run their own lives without supervision. Thatcher herself called liberty a moral quality, one that carries accountability for how each person uses it.

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