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This is a normal post All this giving children wooden swords
is just training them up to join those ghastly legions.
 (Frozen_Banana Shaved against the grain; thoroughly unrewarding., Thu 12 May 2011, 13:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post fair point
but I'v e seen som e of those first person shooters on yotube and it amazes me how realistic they're getting and how casual a killing is carried out.

I'd say the average 14 year old after a few years of that would feel less sensitised in real life about pulling a trigger on a real human being. Especially as the line between realistic gameplay and reality is getting more blurred by the day with the tech . Much different than role playing with your imagination as the behaviour is programmed into you with the computer games .

In fact to get good on teh game missions you need to modify your behaviour and morality in line with the game. Is this not true?


I could be wrong though
 (I helped save b3ta! Clay hopes this bit is long enough to promote my websi, Thu 12 May 2011, 14:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post No, I don't think it's true.
Games like this have been around for 10 years or so now and we don't have a generation of morally devoid trigger happy weirdos around (no more than we would normally anyway). I think most kids can tell the difference between whats real and whats not.
 (I helped save b3ta! JamTallons, Thu 12 May 2011, 14:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post I agree up to a point
I think we'll see the difference in the military not on the streets.
kids exposed to the most realistic computer stuff would make a more effective soldier. someone more readily able to follow orders without thought or conscience. And we all know how important it is for soldiers to question their orders these days.

the aim of the military is to get the average soldier less resistant to pulling the trigger as possible. To behave more like a machine than someone with free will. In WW1 they found 70% of the weapons of the battle dead were not even fired . No doubt today thanks to conditioning it's far less.
 (I helped save b3ta! Clay hopes this bit is long enough to promote my websi, Thu 12 May 2011, 14:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hmmm. I might have a read of this actually:
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316330116/warcatslair. Interesting subject.
 (I helped save b3ta! JamTallons, Thu 12 May 2011, 15:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post All of these games are utterly useless for actual army training though
As they all encourage 'lone wolfing', ignoring orders and just running around doing whast you want, tactically.

All of these have to be physically beaten out of new squaddies, so they do what they're told, rather than what they think is best.
 (dieselmonkey, Thu 12 May 2011, 15:59, , Reply)