Let's ban Taliban game

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Flaxpants

And what about lethal weapons? Would you ban guns in games by the same token unless they were sport shooting games? I suppose a game such as Lemmings could be construed as offensive by somebody who likes that particular animal, the list goes on.

The biggest question about your argument Skybird is where exactly would you draw the line?

When a game starts to give shooters and bots a face, when you get invivted to idenitfy yourself with ideology, or the task of killing enemies. If you are a bit-open-minded you can understand by my earlier explanations what that means. Also, what we define as terror and/or severe criminality must not be made object of a game, at least it must not allow the player to act on behalf of what our culture understands as terrorism.

In principle I think it is quite simple. It only becomes comlicated where it is tried to make it more complicate in order to allow such distortions. but one does not need to take an ethics course to see where the problem is when you start to play a terrorists assassinating civilians, identifying yourself with the role.

that'S why I think that EA can shove their opportunistic claim about how "neutral" their approach is, right into their lower bottom.