Why do People prefer to shoot People?

[naznatips]

Munkeh111 said:

naznatips said:

BenKenobi88 said:
I don't think about killing people when playing such games.

Those games are more about tactics and aiming skill, trying to best the other players...the fact that their characters die doesn't usually cross my mind. And it shouldn't, since they're not really dying, they're just "knocked out" until they respawn.

Same, although I try not to play games as if it's a game. As in, I try to play cautiously, as if my life weren't expendable and I would just respawn if I lost.

Surely if you play it as if it was a game then you would be more concerned that you are killing people. To me the main point is that it is just a game, and your not really killing people, your just destroying a bit of code, or indeed just triggering its death sequence.

You are misunderstanding me.  I am just a cautious gamer. I'm a survivor haha.  I think depending on extra lives is a crutch I shouldn't have to use (I'm talking about single-player).  In multiplayer games that's not really a viable strategy, but I like to survive, to never "lose" in a single-player game. 

When I'm playing multiplayer (even in an FPS) I see it as a sport.  When I "kill" an enemy, I see it as me scoring.  When I'm killed, I was scored on.  The goal of the sport is to win.  It's just competition, using a medium of digital guns.