• Red Cross Wants Video Games To Obey Geneva Conventions
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[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;33562988]Personally I would be more of for stressing that it's wrong, while allowing it. Show the player the morals, but don't enforce them. Make the clearly good guys keep it, but stress that the ones who don't are not good.[/QUOTE] Pfft, wimps. It's GOOD to be [I][B]BAAAAD[/B][/I]... :v:
Gaddafi has been playing video games then. If video games have apparently influenced real life.
This is like asking the porno industry to stop objectifying women
[QUOTE=macerator;33577112]This is like asking the porno industry to stop objectifying women[/QUOTE] There's always gay porn for them.
If you 'ban' video games for inspiring bad people to do bad things, you are going to have to eventually ban television, books, movies, radio, and eventually all media sources before you realize that people are going to do bad shit regardless of their hate-seed.
If this was put into the games I bet it would be as fantastic as Call of Juarez's "HEY, WHY WOULD I WANNA SHOOT A DEAD BODY?" -thing.
don't be a PETA, Red Cross
So wait, when I play games like StarCraft 2 and aim directly for the near harmless SCV/Probe/Drone, does that make me a war criminal or a genocidal maniac?
That's not going to happen if healers in-game can heal someone back to full combat capacity within a few short seconds.
If I cant kill people online, im gonna kill em offline. One way or another someone is gonna die
[QUOTE=Cap'nSpacePants;33577679]So wait, when I play games like StarCraft 2 and aim directly for the near harmless SCV/Probe/Drone, does that make me a war criminal or a genocidal maniac?[/QUOTE] You can't put weapons in space according to the Geneva convention. You are already a war criminal.
[QUOTE=Vandel;33577869]You can't put weapons in space according to the Geneva convention. You are already a war criminal.[/QUOTE] Well shit, looks like I'm screwed :v:
I agree, I'm tired of seeing incendiary weapons and the like in modern shooters. if the game takes place before the geneva conventions then they're all fine but otherwise it's out of place and immersion breaking.
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;33568072]Source? I have a hard time believing videogames cause people to attack red cross more or anything.[/QUOTE] There's been heaps to research on it, from military sources. Books such as Men Against Fire or On Killing. Training methods have been refined since the Korean to dehumanise the enemy as much as possible. Very few people actually want to fire a gun at an individual with intent to kill him, but these days a lot more people are willing to commit to suppressive fire against human silhouetted paper targets. Videogames, movies and tv go further to normalise violence.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;33578143]I agree, I'm tired of seeing incendiary weapons and the like in modern shooters. if the game takes place before the geneva conventions then they're all fine but otherwise it's out of place and immersion breaking.[/QUOTE] Yeah because no one uses white phosphorous any more and everyone follows the Geneva convention to the letter.
[QUOTE=Contag;33578240]Yeah because no one uses white phosphorous any more and everyone follows the Geneva convention to the letter.[/QUOTE] maybe so but games like fallout where there are flamethrowers all over the place is where it doesn't work
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;33578287]maybe so but [B]games like fallout[/B] where there are flamethrowers all over the place is where it doesn't work[/QUOTE] uh I'm pretty sure that global thermonuclear war isn't allowed under the geneva convention either and considering the game is set quite a while from now... [I]it's fiction![/I]
Holy shit, I don't even know what to say about this. This is soo stupid that it even mindfucks me beyond thought. Soon enough, we live in a "nanny stated" world because some idiots think video games and TV and, apparently almost anything that can be fun, is the source of violence. Nevermind greed and crazy people, its video games that make people rob banks and start wars. I bet that african war/drug/diamond/cartel/whatchatell lord is playing cod and battlefield right now and going "YEAH! I should create a war too! Thank you video games!" and will soon be plotting against the top nations in the world. Meanwhile, actually important stuff goes unanswered.
[QUOTE=Contag;33578360]uh I'm pretty sure that global thermonuclear war isn't allowed under the geneva convention either and considering the game is set quite a while from now... [I]it's fiction![/I][/QUOTE] geneva conventions don't prohibit nuclear war, MAD does. and in the fallout universe, MAD happened
[QUOTE=Contag;33578360] [I]it's fiction![/I][/QUOTE] See now, this is what needs to be explained to them about all of the video games. Except for the educational ones.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;33578471]geneva conventions don't prohibit nuclear war, MAD does. and in the fallout universe, MAD happened[/QUOTE] [QUOTE](1) Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria.[/QUOTE] I dunno, I think the complete destruction of life on two continents kind of contravenes this. [editline]5th December 2011[/editline] The thing about this whole story is that it's tantamount to censoring people's imagination.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;33578287]maybe so but games like fallout where there are flamethrowers all over the place is where it doesn't work[/QUOTE] why would you even mention a post-apocalyptic game it's like you [I]want[/I] to destroy your argument
One of the main points of video games is that almost all the situations you could possibly be in would not happen to you, or sometimes to anyone for that matter. Also, unless something is already wrong, there is slim to no chance of a video game making you go out and harm someone
Goddamn, why is everyone attacking video games recently? (Not that it works)
[QUOTE=XZXk;33593608]Goddamn, why is everyone attacking video games recently? (Not that it works)[/QUOTE] "because these [B][I]violent video games[/I][/B] are so [I][B]evil[/B]!!![/I] If only there was some way to see if said [B][I]violent video games[/I][/B] are [B][I]violent[/I][/B] or not! Better ban them instead, then!"
What the hell is the deal with people who don't realize [I]video games aren't real?[/I] Nothing actually happens, you fucking morons. Video game characters do not exist and are not people, nor are gamers committing any violent acts at all. The only people that think otherwise have clearly never played a game.
In what bizarro universe do these people live where video games are apparently real? I'm shooting pixels with pixels from a bunch of pixels, will someone care to tell me how that hurts the poor innocent of citizens of Whereeverthefuckistan?
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