More and more I'm finding myself sounding like a Concerned Mother with regards to stuff like this. Except I've personally felt these things chipping away at my soul as I play them.
There's a fuzzy line of abstraction and violence. Some kinds of video-game violence, I'm all for. But wallowing in something as up-close and personal as this? This is not good; this is not something we should be pouring this much money into. This is not an experience we should have so readily available for purchase. This is training in shutting off sympathy and becoming a homicidal maniac.
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Date: 2007-09-04 02:10 pm (UTC)There's a fuzzy line of abstraction and violence. Some kinds of video-game violence, I'm all for. But wallowing in something as up-close and personal as this? This is not good; this is not something we should be pouring this much money into. This is not an experience we should have so readily available for purchase. This is training in shutting off sympathy and becoming a homicidal maniac.