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Thread #75797   Message #1335581
Posted By: WFDU - Ron Olesko
22-Nov-04 - 03:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: JFK Reloaded - Assassination Video Game
Subject: RE: BS: JFK Reloaded - Assassination Video Game
Clinton is right, there are many sick games of this type on the market. I'm not a believer that violence on TV or in literature causes violence, but there is something disturbing about a video game where you are pulling the trigger on another individual. Sure, it is only "pixles, and electrons, and frame-rates" but you are fooling yourself if you think it has "nothing to do with real life". There is a difference between watching violence and participating in it, even if it is only on a monitor. You are no longer an observer, you become a participant. This goes beyond safely getting out agression, there is something wrong here.   There are games where the violence is in self-defense as a protection from an agressor, but there is something wrong when a game gets it jollies by assassinating a helpless individual. I am sure psychologists could have a field day with this one.