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In <1992Jun5.1...@advtech.uswest.com> dwa...@da_vinci.uswest.com (Darryl D. Watson) writes:

>In article <1992May21.1...@news2.cis.umn.edu>, alb...@mudhoney.micro.umn.edu (Albatross) writes:
>> there's no evidence either way, and one could as well assert that video-game
>> violence promotes real-world violence by teaching people that their targets
>> are simply pixel-patterns and not living, breathing people.

>If you want to remove a game because it is too violent, you might as
>well junk every TV in the country.

I don't endorse censorship.  I may question why something exists, but I don't
believe in censoring these kinds of things, just questioning what they mean.

>Then NOT creating the game isn't going to make a bit of difference, is
>it?

No individual act will totally alter the culture, but if the culture itself
decides to question its values and change them, then that would make a
difference.  We don't live in a culture which endorses questioning the
status quo, however.

>Anyway, this is the price you pay for free will.  Take it up with
>God if you don't like the setup.

I'm an atheist, I can't do that.

>Wake up!  We are living in a warrior society!

No we're not.  A "warrior society" in the classic sense is idealistic and
supports a strong ethical code of honor.  We're a barbarian society, with
all the violence and no sense of ethics at all.

>We, as a society, glorify
>competition, and yes, violence.  Tuff.  Nazi Germany happened; if we
>hadn't gotten just as nasty, cruel, and violent, you'd be speaking
>German right now, dude.

And if we had to become them in order to defeat them, who really lost?
A difference that makes no difference is no difference, and it doesn't make
a difference what language you speak if your culture is disintegrating.
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