The world’s largest animal rights organisation PETA has issued a press release in Germany expressing its unhappiness with a scene in Battlefield 3’s single player campaign in which players must kill a rat in order to prevent being detected by enemy guards.
According to PETA, performing this action in the game might inspire certain members of the mostly young male audience that plays Battlefield 3 to perform similar acts in real life.
“The realistic computer game “Battlefield 3″ treats animals in a sadistic manner. The game gives players the option to kill a rat with a combat knife in the back in order to then lift it by its tail, then toss it away. Killing virtual animals can have a brutalizing effect on the young male target audience. There have been repeated cases of animal cruelty in Germany, where young people kill animals. Inspiration behind these acts often came from movies and computer games.”
Of course, Battlefield 3 carries an adult age restriction, and furthermore, players kill hundreds upon hundreds of human beings throughout the campaign.
It’s actually a metaphor about man’s inhumanity towards man.
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