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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Kill 'em all!! Let God sort 'em out

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Today's title is an unofficial Special Forces motto. Should be self-explanatory.
My opinion on wild hogs and armadillos.

Bear that in mind as you look at this http://www.eternalforces.com/

Now read this review.

Gotta admit, I'm somewhat ambivalent about this. Why? It's a video game. It's not reality.

Reality is Muslims are killing each other and pretty much everyone else. Jews in Israel are not exactly killing each other, but do come close and are killing Muslims. Christians are killing everyone. Atheists are killing everyone.

Kill 'em all. "Get 'em sorted in whatever existence, if any, comes after this one" is the motto of mankind.

Humans don't need a religion in order to kill each other. We just need an opportunity.

Anyway, I strongly suspect a lot of people will like the idea of a video game that lets Christians take out people who don't convert to the faith.

If you are one, I now ask what's your opinion of this: http://www2.wsls.com/news/2008/jun/02/object_of_new_video_game_is_to_stop_the_spread_of_-ar-401417/

 "The object of the game is to stop the spread of Christianity and Islam by murdering Abraham and the authors of the Bible, before beheading Muhammad."

 I'm still ambivalent. Why?

Because people who complain about either one of these video games are complaining because they are the object of attack.

So?

"Baker, you're an idiot. These video games teach people it's OK to attack me because of who I am," you say.

So?

I readily admit these "offensive" video games enact violence against a certain segment of humanity.
 
Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, pick a war-based shoot 'em game. Someone is the enemy and someone is getting killed. Chinese, Russian, Mexican. These video games have as the object, kill someone because they are different.

You are going to tell me it's OK to have a video game where a kind of person you don't like is killed, but it's not OK to have a video game where the kind of person killed is someone you like?

Humans don't need a reason to kill each other. We just need an opportunity. That this violence is enacting in video games doesn't much matter.

If you plan to decry the killing of atheists, Muslims or Christians in a video game, will you decry such violence against other human avatars in the game?

If you don't denounce the violence, all the violence, then what does that really say about you?

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