|
» GC Stats |
Members: 329,677
Threads: 115,665
Posts: 2,204,897
|
| Welcome to our newest member, zayladark2514 |
|
 |
|
06-19-2005, 10:07 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: NooYawk
Posts: 5,478
|
|
|
Virtual Cops Gettin' Capped
http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/...36425&SecID=33
A new, soon-to-be released video game is drawing fire from critics who believe it hits a new low.
The game is called "25 To Life." Players earn points by pretending to kill cops and use civilians as human shields. Players can also play the part of the police officers.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What's your take on things like this?
__________________
ONE LOVE, For All My Life
Talented, tested, tenacious, and true...
A woman of diversity through and through.
|
06-19-2005, 10:33 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Mile High America
Posts: 17,088
|
|
|
The critics are right. This is really wrong.
__________________
Fraternally,
DeltAlum
DTD
The above is the opinion of the poster which may or may not be based in known facts and does not necessarily reflect the views of Delta Tau Delta or Greek Chat -- but it might.
|
06-19-2005, 10:33 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 3,342
|
|
|
Remember when that game was called Manhunt?
Remember how it was called Grand Theft Auto beforehand?
|
06-20-2005, 07:26 AM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Huntsville, Alabama - ahem - Kwaj East!
Posts: 3,710
|
|
|
You gotta be shitting me... Americans have always had a streak of rebelliousness and flouting of authority, but a game glorifying killing and maiming cops?
__________________
ASF
Causa latet vis est notissima - the cause is hidden, the results are well known.
Alpha Alpha (University of Oklahoma) Chapter, #814, 1984
|
06-20-2005, 08:52 AM
|
|
Banned
|
|
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Taking lessons at Cobra Kai Karate!
Posts: 14,928
|
|
|
Two words: Free speech.
-Rudey
|
06-20-2005, 09:56 AM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Who you calling "boy"? The name's Hand Banana . . .
Posts: 6,984
|
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Rudey
Two words: Free speech.
-Rudey
|
For real - this is the most 'American' thing possible, and I can't see how people don't realize it.
|
06-20-2005, 10:10 AM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: somewhere in richmond
Posts: 6,906
|
|
|
yeah, if you don't like this game, you might as well join al-qaeda
|
06-20-2005, 01:10 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Mile High America
Posts: 17,088
|
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Rudey
Two words: Free speech.
|
Even under the Constitution, Free Speech only goes so far. It is not an unlimited right. With it comes certain responsibilities.
The first time a real police officer is shot and someone uses being conditioned by the game, it will be interesting to see if the courts agree with the free speech theory.
__________________
Fraternally,
DeltAlum
DTD
The above is the opinion of the poster which may or may not be based in known facts and does not necessarily reflect the views of Delta Tau Delta or Greek Chat -- but it might.
|
06-20-2005, 01:15 PM
|
|
Banned
|
|
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Taking lessons at Cobra Kai Karate!
Posts: 14,928
|
|
Quote:
Originally posted by DeltAlum
Even under the Constitution, Free Speech only goes so far. It is not an unlimited right. With it comes certain responsibilities.
The first time a real police officer is shot and someone uses being conditioned by the game, it will be interesting to see if the courts agree with the free speech theory.
|
It's not a theory, it's an undeniable right.
-Rudey
|
06-20-2005, 01:43 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Who you calling "boy"? The name's Hand Banana . . .
Posts: 6,984
|
|
Quote:
Originally posted by DeltAlum
Even under the Constitution, Free Speech only goes so far. It is not an unlimited right. With it comes certain responsibilities.
|
You're chucking the topic here - you should run down the exact situations in which free speech is limited. Then you'll see how little that applies to this topic.
Quote:
Originally posted by DeltAlum
The first time a real police officer is shot and someone uses being conditioned by the game, it will be interesting to see if the courts agree with the free speech theory.
|
Well, since there's never been any conclusive proof to suggest that 'conditioning' via videogame, television, reading books, seeing network news, driving through a rough part of town, or listening to your grandfather spout quasi-racist innuendo or any similar stimulus leads to violent behavior or contributes to some sort of bizarre psychological 'activation' of violent outbursts, you'll be hard-pressed to win any sympathy from me here.
The courts will do what they've done so far with similarly uninformed attempts at defense: throw them out.
|
06-20-2005, 01:46 PM
|
|
Super Moderator
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Southeast Asia
Posts: 9,026
|
|
|
Anybody remember the big deal about Bodycount's song "Cop Killer"?
ETA: In high school, I had a t-shirt that said PBA: Police Brutality Association.
In the back: Support your local PBA, beat yourself up.
__________________
Spambot Killer 
Last edited by moe.ron; 06-20-2005 at 01:50 PM.
|
06-20-2005, 01:59 PM
|
|
Banned
|
|
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Taking lessons at Cobra Kai Karate!
Posts: 14,928
|
|
|
Similar enough to The People vs. Larry Flint. Substitute porn for video games.
Hey here's a novel idea. How about more of an effort to prevent guns from ending in the wrong hands? How about more of an effort to teach kids morals instead of requiring it through a law?
-Rudey
|
06-20-2005, 02:42 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Listening to a Mariachi band on the N train
Posts: 5,707
|
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Rudey
Hey here's a novel idea. How about more of an effort to prevent guns from ending in the wrong hands? How about more of an effort to teach kids morals instead of requiring it through a law?
|
That takes real effort. Its easier to just pass a law and pretend that a problem has been dealt with.
|
06-20-2005, 02:52 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Houston TX
Posts: 1,452
|
|
|
|
06-20-2005, 03:17 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 3,342
|
|
Retired Marine Colonel Dave Grossman is an OUTSPOKEN critic of violent video games, and has been a leading voice at Congress Hearings and for various watchdog groups.
He alleges that as per military training, soldiers play Doom and other one person shooters to "condition" them for killing. He believes, in his self-named "Killology" that because the military uses these games to teach their personnel to kill, that the same effect of conditioning kids would happen too.
I think the guy's wrong because the number of players to crimes makes it ridiculous.... but I just wanted your feedback.
Google Searches:
http://www.killology.com/
http://www.tgorski.com/Violence/Davi...n_04-23-01.htm
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
Linear Mode
