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Originally Posted by August
So then you advocate banning all subsims, tanksims and any other violent computer games for anyone under 21? That is what you're talking about.
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It would not mean a loss for human race if war games would not find so much acceptance amongst gaming people, yes. But even more it would help if the business of the military would not be simplified and glossed so much in general media, the proverbial obsession for weapons in some countries would no longer be tolerated and 12 year old would not be allowed to fire assault rifles at a gunnery range under their parent's supervison.
If we would never have heared of Sub Command, Battlefield and Call of Duty, we would not miss it. So indeed their non-existence from all beginning on wouldn't be a loss for anyone indeed.
Craving to play these titles is an artifical creation. And in some cases it even is military interest behind it - it is wellknown that the game
America's Army was planned and created as a promotion tool for service in the armed forces. That'S why they gave it away for free.
I for myself, I lose interest in military content in sims the more the older I get (I become 45 next week). I don't play military sims much anymore, not even SBP or Falcon. The DCS sims I got last year rest on my shelf, almost untouched. I still like to play, but not as much as in the past, and the military sim genre simply cannot attract me as much as before anymore.
I consider 21 to be a more appropriate age barrier than 18 in many instances, however.
And regarding car driving I think young men should be allowed to drive alone some years later than girls indeed. Accident and traffic risk statistics of police and insurrance companies speak a very clear language here. The reason for the difference is evolutional biology, there is no cure against it (except genetic therapy, maybe).
