kidsister:

They went through the trouble of thinking of it and putting it to the game, how is that not promoting a player to do it. What do you think they were thinking "oh hey lets put this in to the game" "no, people won't want to do that" "I know, lets just put it in for no reason at all" I don't think so.

You're logic is kind of flawed kidsister. This game is a completely open environment. In this game I can climb to the top of the empire state building and jump off. Does this game promote suicide?

I can go to my in game apartment and shoot my in game tv rendering it useless. Does this game promote destroying electronics?

In this game I can run around the city streets punching random strangers until I find one who will fight back. Does this game promote random punching sprees?

GTA is a totally open environment where almost any action is possible. Also, every action has consequences.

This does not promote any of these actions it simply gives the player an open environment.