Except that it's a game, and unless a person has significant problems anyway, they will understand that there is a difference between killing something in a gam

Except that it's a game, and unless a person has significant problems anyway, they will understand that there is a difference between killing something in a game and doing it in real life. That said, children have been playing games of "shoot em up" for many years. At one point it was cowboys and Indians, earlier it would have been whoever the local defender and perceived "bad guy" was. I have a feeling that this is human nature, and I actually feel that we are far better having our children playing computer games where they are targeting mythical creatures, than playing shoot the Taliban or some such.