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Re:Red Cross Wants Real Life Laws Enforced Within Virtual Wo... by viraptor on Monday December 05, 2011 @03:54PM (#3316432)
> It would be highly appreciated if games reproducing armed conflicts were to include the rules which apply to real armed conflicts. These rules and values are given by international humanitarian law and human rights law.

I never got this way of thinking and I'm a bit disappointed Red Cross "accepts" it. Rules in an armed conflict? Why did we start accepting any kind of killing? How is shooting someone opposed to you better than stabbing them in the eye and then shooting them? The US which should be counted as a developed and civilised country does not even care sometimes to "play by the rules" (torture outside of the country, treatment of jailed people), yet the games should give you an illusion world conflicts do?

I don't oppose cruel games and think they reflect the situation, rather than influence it, but I expected the Red Cross to have a different view on this (and a more strict one).

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