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I feel this question was tailored for me! I grew up to love history. And read mythologies like the Mahabharata and always glorified wars. I was like 13-14. It
by truth_ 5y ago
I feel this question was tailored for me!
I grew up to love history. And read mythologies like the Mahabharata and always glorified wars. I was like 13-14.
It was written in the newspapers that war was bad, my History teacher taught us so, and my father always told me so. But I never bought those. To my early teenager tiny-brain, war was something glorious where you fought for your country/clan. And killing other people effectively was fabulous!
This all came to change when I played Call of Duty (1). It is set in WW2. There were so many deaths! And those deaths were so horrific! I had a sort of an epiphany that each corpse (and there were a lot) lying in there is somebody's brother, son, lover, and so on. And they were dead. Quotes about war was flashed across screen after each "mission".
There was a church scene and so many people died there. The condition was so horrific. I realized for the first time in my life that war so horrific and always a bad thing.
Very few transformations in very few persons' lives are dramatic. But this was exactly as I write. Call of Duty (1) taught me to hate wars. I grew up to be a person to whom wars are a very bad thing.
Especially for the people who have to fight.
I loved to play Call of Duty but decided that wars are cool only in games. Not in real life.
- agent008t 5y agoAn interesting and insightful thing about CoD1 was also how easy it was to die - if I remember right it only took one or two hits.
- mod 5y agoAnd just imagine with friendly fire turned on. Even if it was all accidental (no trolls), you can die from any direction at all times.
- pitched 5y agoIt was the original Battlefield that really drove this point home for me. If everyone can get at least one kill per death, your team will win. So if there is a war, there can’t ever be more than a 50/50 chance of me making it home alive.