Possible Modern Warfare 3 controversy looming

[Dracolusus]

But do you really think those parents will ever be smart enough and say "...oh... well maybe it IS my poor parenting that's causing my child to behave this way."? Nope, they'll keep blaming other people/things. Sad. I feel sorry for those children to have such poor parents.

Bad parenting is an issue, and can be blamed for a lot of the crazy that happens in this world. This is prob more to blame for psycho kids than bullying and drug abuse combined.

But putting blame on video games is BS. There are MILLIONS of gamers, if this was the case, I'm sure there would be a buttload more school/work/random shootings than there are now. I've got the jist of the Unthinkable movie. Hell, you do what you need to do...but that is a movie, just like MW is a game. No rational person would enjoy taking another life in cold blood (unless in revenge of some personal atrocity). Its escapism...the media and religious nuts need to wake up.

[Helix]

Whats the world and especially the internet without a little controversy?

No rational person would enjoy taking another life in cold blood (unless in revenge of some personal atrocity).

I think under those circumstances, the person is no longer thinking rationally-so you can outright say-only a sociopath would gain pleasure from taking a life in cold blood!

[wheunis]

only a sociopath would gain pleasure from taking a life in cold blood!

Hunt much?
Taking life is as primal a pleasure to our brains as sex is.

We *ACT* like we don't understand, or *SAY* that we condemn such behaviors, but truth is: People have always, still do, and will always enjoy killing.

[Helix]

Hunt much?
Taking life is as primal a pleasure to our brains as sex is.

We *ACT* like we don't understand, or *SAY* that we condemn such behaviors, but truth is: People have always, still do, and will always enjoy killing.

Hmm...that is an interesting point. But I think the majority of normal people will differentiate when killing a person. Like for instance if you killed someones pet (by accident or intentional) you would feel guilty due to it being humanised, where as a wild animal is seen as just an animal!

But I get your point-it is probably the society that we are raised in that programmes our minds into believing that killing is wrong etc etc. and that maybe at our very primal core you will actually enjoy killing someone/something. But we are the society we live in after all-so I dont think you can differentiate the two so easily.

[wheunis]

Hmm...that is an interesting point. But I think the majority of normal people will differentiate when killing a person. Like for instance if you killed someones pet (by accident or intentional) you would feel guilty due to it being humanised, where as a wild animal is seen as just an animal!

But I get your point-it is probably the society that we are raised in that programmes our minds into believing that killing is wrong etc etc. and that maybe at our very primal core you will actually enjoy killing someone/something. But we are the society we live in after all-so I dont think you can differentiate the two so easily.

That whole basket of society is a whole different topic altogether; suffice my response for now to be:
It is a lie. There is no society. There is no civilization. What you PERCEIVE as societal rule is a farce that has been instilled in you from the youngest possible age.
The only validation for this is by example = If societal rules really existed, how come two people who have lived next to each other for 28 years, in the same "society", cannot agree on any two moral questions, ever?

Anyway... yes you are correct. At an extremely deep primal nature, we enjoy killing. At the very same level that a cat enjoys chasing and killing birdies, so do we. What is being killed has very little to do with it.
The reason you feel "guilty" about killing someone's pet, is that you have self-instilled this guilt in your own mind. That "ability" is what makes us different to other animals. The ability to synthesize information on a complex multiform basis into new findings.

You feel guilty, only because you have/had pets yourself. You understand the feeling of losing said pets. You can sympathize with the people involved, and thus the feeling.
You can evidence this by a lot of people who wouldn't even blink when running over someone else's pet(s). They simply have not synthesized the information you have, due to their own lack of pets or the lack of attachment to any they may have had.

The biggest lesson you can learn about man in this regard is neatly wrapped in cannibalism under duress. Watch the movies, or read the books regarding that plane-crash with a South-American soccer(?) team in the Andes mountains...
After a few days, they didn't feel bad about eating other people anymore.

On an even more disturbing note... a few more days passed and they even started fighting among each other over the "best pieces". A day or two after that they were actually ready to kill more people for "better servings".

The so-called societal rule in your mind will snap at a moment's notice. Much faster and easier than you have EVER imagined.
Mostly because it doesn't actually exist...

[souluser7]

hmm...personally seeing stuff like that doesn't really offend me - it just makes the game feel more 'realistic' in a way, because those types of things do actually happen, but it was pretty unexpected for Activision to come up with something like that again