The International Committee of the Red Cross
stated “The ICRC believes there is a place for international humanitarian
law (the law of armed conflict) in video games,” meaning that punishment should
be dealt in the virtual world. Its interesting to think about how a realistic
game could potentially bog you down because you broke rule #57
subsection B for shooting a tank shell at a landed helicopter. I suppose they
are talking more about torture, civilian killing and shooting at schools. They
are not concerned about fantasy games they are purely suggesting to the modern
FPS games to implement rules to make things more realistic. I don't
understand why this is a big deal. Video games are not really meant to be about
rules and regulations. Why would I play a game that punishes me for having
my kind of fun. When I beat a level I want to go back a blow up all the water
towers after I'm done. Violence in video games has not been linked to real
world violence so I don't understand the sudden request for the
police of virtual worlds. Shouldn't the red cross be worrying on real world
matters?
-Nicholas
People like to blame things. Just so happens, video games are the target at the moment. If I recall correctly, this has also happened to music at one point.
ReplyDeleteI don't really see a point in punishment in games either. I don't see games as sources of direct harm, and I've never heard of anyone committing violent acts that have been directly influenced by a game.
ReplyDeleteThere are rarely ever any violent acts related to a game. However when one thing related to violent acts and gaming happen, everyone make a huge fuss because society thinks that video games are a bad influence.
ReplyDeleteI agree with those people^
ReplyDeleteI do not see why an international corporation should be thinking of virtual games when there are real war criminals that didn't play video games and still violate humanitarian laws. Furthermore, they have no right to interfere with the products of other companies because it goes against their morals.
did you hear about the five-year old who shot his grandmother after playing gta? it was all over the news. the fact that most news outlets didn't report is that the grandmother left a loaded gun lying around a five-year old, and that gta is for people 18 years and older. i can't tell you how many times i've seen a parent at eb buying an m rated game for their toddler.
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