Gamers avoid military service

[Oh! My Car!]

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weird no? But is it fair or should everyone have to do their part? But I guess if you did miss your PC that much then you probably couldn't even use your legs properly

[killing_floor]

I'd have thought it would be the other way around ; you'd be in line for recruitment given the amount of simulations in use today. As for legs,

http://www.futurehorizons.net/bionics.htm

(*warning-contains links to evil mind control technology*)

[RLench]

"It's not all good, though, as the gamers will be drafted again three years later, because then the army expects them to have ?grown up? by that time."

Because games are immature and childish, I guess?

[Kotatsu Neko]

Amazing some countries still have conscription. If we had it here, I'd off been off to another country long before they could get me?

Cowardly? Who cares, I'm not goose stepping through a freezing cold bog clutching a rifle for anyone or anything.

[Razz]

AGREED!!

I feel the same way. I think its cruel to do that.

[anephric]

I think it's great: if there was conscription in the UK I would have had to say I was a homosexual vagabond addicted to LSD to get out of service: now all I'd have to do is say I couldn't live without Phantasy Star Online.

[Spatial]

Let me get this straight....

The Army teach's kids to kill.

Video Games (supposidly) teach kids to kill.

Whats they're problem then ?

[Kotatsu Neko]

Let me get this straight....

The Army teach's kids to kill.

Video Games (supposidly) teach kids to kill.

Whats they're problem then ?

No, you got it wrong.

The army teaches kids to kill. Fact.

Video games are entertainment, and do not influence behavior. Fact.

[df0notfound]

freaks, nowt wrong playing games but having as your hole life is utterly pathetic. **** them they should do their part, its not the militaries fault they have wasted their lives.

[Alf-Life]

Or maybe it *is* just an excuse.

[anephric]

Any country where a condition of citizenship is military service is a disgusting anachronism: anybody that says it should be compulsory should be throttled with a copy of the Daily Mail.

This isn't Starship Troopers, for ****'s sake.

[anephric]

Or Sparta. Maybe we should all be wrenched from our mother's teat when we're 6 and have a spear shoved in our hand.

[anephric]

No, you got it wrong.

The army teaches kids to kill. Fact.

Video games are entertainment, and do not influence behavior. Fact.

The Army does teach you to kill. Fact.

Videogames are a form of entertainment that impact on a complex series of mnemonic processes that we don't understand and since mammals are a mimetic form of life you cannot conclusively state as fact that certain people won't be affected by them. It is deeply solipsistic to definitively state that what won't affect me won't affect you. We all have different perceptions of reality (maturated thru nature/nuture) and indeed my reality (in a Descartean sense) may well not be yours.

We are all apes. Apes learn/are accepted through imitation and posture echo.

You may argue that if games made us homicidal we'd be raving nations of killers: I'd counter that certain people (particularly undiagnosed schizophrenics and people temporarily psychotic) have been influenced by games/films/novels (Mark Chapman for one) and have acted on those notions.

However, you cannot account for the reactions of every single individual in a world as multifarious as our own and hence you can't blame a game if someone goes out and kills someone. He could have been triggered by anything.

[Spatial]

No, you got it wrong.

The army teaches kids to kill. Fact.

Video games are entertainment, and do not influence behavior. Fact.

I was kidding. Hence me putting the `supposidly` bit in

[Commander Marklar]

The army teaches kids to kill. Fact.

That's complete and utter bull****.