PPR (quasi-) Game: Acceptable or Reprehensible?

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In this, ask a question regarding something that you find questionable, for the next poster or posters to express whether they consider it acceptable or reprehensible.


Example,

Is it acceptable or reprehensible to mock the beliefs of others?

I would say that mocking (and flaming) is absurd as it doesn't actually prove anything, mocking and flaming usually is asocciated with emotional reactions towards something they dislike or find themselves ridiculous or dangerous, according to their own bias and perspective. I believe once emotional reactions get behind something the problem is there. There is a reason why some rather not get into arguments and debates.

Question: Is it acceptable or reprehensible to mock mockers of the beliefs of others?

Probably not acceptable, but it is difficult when I consider all the insults and insinuations from them.



Is it acceptable to allow teenagers to play violent video games? I think it is, they're fun and it helps them to keep them out of trouble while they're killing zombie aliens, but what do you think?

Of course, there's the problem of faith blinded religious people who consider themselves mocked when presented with rational evidence of religious tomfoolery. Basically this is a personal problem for those so insecure in their religious beliefs that they react with anger instead of internal self composure.

Is it acceptable for teenagers to play violent video games?

You mean the ones where you are God and destroy all the human race except those brown-nosers that worship you?

No Mr. Presumptuous, I mean games like OO7 GoldenEye, Halo, KillZone, StarLancer, Command & Conquer Renegade, Quake IV, etc.

Evidently you're much into game playing and violence. Neither one interests me so I cannot comment from personal experience but recent studies seem to indicate that violent games make violence more acceptable to those indulging. See http://mentalhealth.about.com/od/cyberm ... nce805.htm

Indeed, ever since I started playing video games the idea of running a machete through a childs face has always seemed more appealing. I think I shall go slaughter a village with a flamethrower.

The recent release of a video of US forces slaughtering innocent villagers in Afghanistan by helicopter forces seems to indicate an acceptance and joy in brutality by exposure to it. I don't know if this works as well with mere games but the suspicion is reasonable.

I had no idea that the Schutzstaffel also had video games. I always wondered where they got their evil.

Remember the monstrosity called rock and roll destroying the morals of youth? Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil.

And that television show "Gun Smoke" caused kids to dress up in chaps and gun down people in the local saloon whilst strutting around bowlegged.

Perhaps exposure to books promote an acceptance and joy of brutality? Weren't murderous delinquents the scourge of society for 50 years after Tom Sawyer suggested forming a gang of robbers?

And we cannot forget the roving gangs of kids in the 30s dressed in loin cloths and swinging around town like their hero Tarzan. True history, but what a scandal! Those "movies" are an immoral influence on youth! As a teen, I myself gunned down 167 people after watching Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Commando". But a kid only knows what he sees, right?

Its a stretch, but if I remember really hard, I can almost recall that Mozart was a scoundrel too, and his so called music was going to result in the moral turpitude of the youth. Oh wait, thats even before your time. I guess thats why you are so immoral.

Or were you forbidden from experiencing any of these things?

The implication, I assume is that literature and media have no effect on social behavior. I wonder why advertising is such an effective and popular tool. See http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?sect ... icle=59009

GAMES

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They may cause this:



But more often they cause this:

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Is it acceptable or reprehensible to arrest people for treason because they are trying to influence the foreign policy of their host country in favor of the country they emigrated from? (I ask this after watching a documentary about how a jewish lobby is apparently influencing Canada's decisions. <.< Our comfortable neutrality is being disrupted by them -.- )

Isn't that what lobbies are supposed to do?

Of course they do. But they dont grab hold of your mind and twist it inside out. I can safely read Falsifiers of History without becoming a little Stalin. I can probably read it 100 times and be no more of a commie/dictator than I am today. If I am not by the hundredth, chances are I never will be.

I mean, you made it through basic training without becoming a blood hungry hunter of men, right? Are you the exception then, or the average?

People like the klebolds and copter killers started on their paths young and probably due to trauma and abuse. That vicious people might also like video games dealing with killing isnt causation, its coincidence. It just makes sense. If you want to kill people, you'll probably enjoy hurting animals or even just simulated humans and animals. Any bloody port in a storm.

Helter Skelter didnt make Charles Manson a killer, he was going to be one regardless of what Paul McCartney wrote.