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I've yet to see "Columbine: The Game". Most violent video games are war themed, and since when did we find fighting in ostensibly just wars to be objectionable?
by nsxwolf 14y ago
I've yet to see "Columbine: The Game". Most violent video games are war themed, and since when did we find fighting in ostensibly just wars to be objectionable? As a nation we troll high schools to get as many 17 and 18 year olds as we can to fight wars for us and we think that's OK. Not seeing how Call of Duty turns anyone into a killer.
All kids play video games. That means killer kids play the same games as non-killer kids. What's that thing about correlation and causation again?
- mgrier123 14y agoI agree. We've been making movies about war since the dawn of film making. I mean sure, movies like Birth of a Nation and Saving Private Ryan depict it differently, but we've still been doing it in film forever. And in terms of art, for hundreds if not thousands of years. The only difference between, Saving Private Ryan and say Call of Duty 2 is that you are in control of a soldier who is shooting enemy soldiers, and I guess it's this difference that people are harping on, not that I agree with this idea. People have said similar things regarding books, pictures, movies, etc. and this is nothing new and it's all been for the same reasons: when it's politically advantageous and so as not to blame bad parenting.
- saraid216 14y agoThe Iliad is one of our oldest pieces of narrative writing in human history. It's about a war.
- saraid216 14y ago> I've yet to see "Columbine: The Game". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Columbine_Massacre_RPG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Columbine_Massacre_RPG! That exclamation point is part of the URL. -_-
- anonymoushn 14y agoIf anyone does try playing the game, be sure to kill everyone you can in the school before going to the library. Otherwise you will be underlevelled when you get to hell.
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- dmazin 14y agoYou honestly don't think that Call of Duty desensitises us to war?
- alwaysinshade 14y agoAnecdote: My wife and I both play COD MW3 and Black Ops 2 online almost daily yet despise war and violence. We're both in our 30's and have played FPS games since our early teens. I think a poor understanding of other cultures, a dash of jingoism and hint of racism would help desensitize us to war.