Should EA have chickened out and removed Taliban from multiplayer?

[Wiintendo]

From the official mouth of the beast, how things work:

44 seconds to 1 minute, listen

 

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Games are most effective Army recruitment tool

http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/212985/games-are-most-effective-army-recruitment-tool/

Still, the familiar concerns abound about the desensitizing effect of virtual violence. Singer recalls the same commander claiming that "the video game generation is worse at distorting the reality of [war] from the virtual nature. They don't have that sense of what really going on," recalling the cold precision of the AC-130 gunship level "Death from Above" in Call of Duty 4 that may teach gamers how to "compartmentalize" the emotional trauma of combat.

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I would boycott the game either way, Taliban in or out, along with other games/media which the army co-opts for recruitment and pr, like Oscar winning The Hurt Locker, and Call Of Duty games, ect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hopefully this is true for those that don't boycott this media-type --->

 

"Playing a military game does not mean you also are yourself pro-war," says Ed Halter, author of From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Videogames .

 

<--- even if that's not the case, by doing free advertising, letting this media-type take up a share of their minds, it'd sure seem hard to say so considering it's source.

 

With more than 1 million dead from recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, near 5 million displaced, birth defects, many wounded, sick and dying, 

 

 

I would really consider EVER supporting the military as an entity, and consider giving peace a chance, for the sake of the soul.