Red Cross: violence in Call of Duty, Battlefield, a virtual war crime

[PedroPostalFan1]

You tube sucks

[PedroPostalFan1]

Virtual violence is cool, and if you don't like, fuck you.

[PedroPostalFan1]

I hate the red cross, what they do anyway, fuck you all this bitches

[vonOhzu]

To those who make the contention that the Red Cross have better things to do, keep in mind that they are charged to promote the upholding of international laws, having no actual prosecutorial powers, promoting a pro-adherence element in the popular culture is one of the best way for the Red Cross to pursuit this aspect of their mission.

[vonOhzu]

I'm not surprised that the NMA people completely misrepresent the facts. Red Cross right now is simply having an internal discussion on whether to reach out and ask video game makers to consider maybe including more realistic elements of modern warfare in allegedly realistic modern warfare games.

[bravo0105]

I'm not surprised, as the Red Cross is run by a bunch of Self-Righteous Communists! The Goddamned Leftists always stroke each other off on ruining the fun of others!

On the flip side, these types would howl in indignation if bathhouses were similarly assailed. Of course, the notion of "live and let live" is foreign to compulsive tormentors.

[TranscendentBiscuit]

The Red Cross needs to pull it's head out of it's ass. Just like novels, tv and movies, video games are fiction. The characters in them aren't real people.

[SammyFlores238]

oh hell no they can kill ghost but no get my MW3!!!!!!

[ThreeSeventyFive]

@jiggaboo904 It's a game, not real violence. You're comparison is flawed and u aint got no pancake mix.

[aquirko2]

I think the Red Cross has more important things to worry about than video games. Are video games reality, I see it as an alternative to reality. Believe it, there would be more than 19 games that have violated the geneva convention

[MIXEDUPTHROWNTOGETHR]

I hope the red cross realizes virtuality and reality are completely separate things and you can't be charged for a crime that didn't happen in reality

[zxcvb161113]

馬德 吃飽太閒管太多 - -

[papalolita]

Stop donating to Red Cross. Voting with your wallet is the best way to fuck them up.

[deadballo]

I do recall driving after a midnight Carmageddon marathon....I didn't do anything absurd but it did feel weird

[ItsTheFizz]

Can't we go back to over-the-top shooters? I'm so sick of this SO REAL military FPS trend...

[BagoGarde]

Red Cross ...attention seeker!

[oystein127]

What about going after real war criminals like Bush, Obama, Sarkozy, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, hillary clinton ect ect.

and not bitch about games

[nisbahmumtaz909]

Well, you don't see me playing Dynasty Warriors and try to swing huge-ass halberds in real life.

[saiyjin98]

@nisbahmumtaz909 Don't act like you didn't try....

[nisbahmumtaz909]

@saiyjin98

I wasn't a real halberd mind you.

But goddamn, it felt good.

I AM THE MOTHERFUCKING LU BU.

[zamestol]

@jiggaboo904

No, confusing fiction with reality will fuck up your mind.

[ejpbaylon]

Ugh, what? How about going after those PMCs? Looks like the Red Cross doesn't have enough balls to go after real life security groups.

[kevinsigma]

playing war crime video games is illegal. real war crime is allowed.

[ThreeSeventyFive]

@jiggaboo904 Bullshit. We play violent video games because violence is in our nature. We've had violence since the dawn of time and video games didn't cause it.

[SominiFonsi]

"Videogamer" in chinese includes the word Nintendo, or I just misheard?

[Ihit2run2]

@SominiFonsi nintendo is japanese -_-

[RichterEX2]

I used to be a great Kart driver, but I took a turtle shell to the knee.

[dctcool]

I have lost all respect for the Red Cross

[ohemeffgeee]

A new low...

[Animeplayer]

Wow, never have I seen the Red Cross fall so low as to waste time on gamers rather than on the real threats that actually do war crimes.

[iamspleen]

if you ask me this is misdirection on the part of the red cross, who are distracting us from the fact that they are in the pocket of rich countries that create the real humanitarian crises in the world, in places like africa.

[mad11red]

The roots of violence and aggression lie in childhood abuse and neglect, not videogames.

[SuperGreenSmartie]

Well, good luck arresting 600 million people. And you are dreaming if you think I'm giving up my video games because you think I'm commiting war crimes. I'll be throwing a turtle shell at your car before that happens.

[dozer54321]

well now i have to buy some turtles and chuck them at cars when i drive

[shadowblade145]

Bullshit.

[cherngbutter]

Uhoh, I played like 8 hours of BF3 yesterday

[SuperGreenSmartie]

@cherngbutter MY GOD MAN, how many virtual people did you kill!? You monster!!

[gembelobosok]

lol. this is ridiculous

[whitewinged]

There's a FAQ on the ICRC's website (icrc.org) on what is true and what's been overblown. I work for the American Red Cross (a separate org from ICRC) and I've been surprised by how much of this story is influenced by hype and dramatic headlines.

[maninredhelm]

@whitewinged All news is hyped. They don't stop with pretending that normal storms are hurricanes during the weather segment. Every story gets that treatment because it's the only way to keep people watching.

[whitewinged]

@maninredhelm yeah, I guess it's no surprise, but still dissapointing! On another note, I found it much more interesting to read the discussions on this topic on slashdot and some gaming blogs.

[UItro]

Meh, I'd say I'm more tempted to save the world rather than destroy it after so many years playing video games. A hero is me!

[lonewolfM16]

@UItro agreed lets assume people imitate games we would have the greatest military force ever. A army of people who grew up being master cheif or one of the various call of suty charecters led by a command and conquer player with resource management handled by a fallout player. The world will not fall.

[J5MARLON]

Everybody google search: Youth Violence Waaaay Down - Games to Blame?by Brian A. Thomas

[Vektacle]

Haven't they got real war crimes to prosecute? Or is that too hard now so let's do something easier like condemn video games.

[SuperGreenSmartie]

@Vektacle If congress making pizza a vegetable wasn't a clue...

[hoosierhiver]

turtle shells are hard to find.

[Uatemydoodle]

rofl... after watching this i'm tempted to throw turtle shells at cars.

[SnoweyMan111]

Korea, propaganda. Clearly they want to vilify the red cross. Even if they're fucked up here. The way they're depicting this isn't right.

[jerome96114]

@SnoweyMan111 :

To bad they are NOT Koreans, but from Taiwan.

So much for "Korea, propaganda". Lol

[SnoweyMan111]

@jerome96114 Doesn't matter much actually.

Taiwan has similar interests.

[hoosierhiver]

@SnoweyMan111 Korea is a Christian country and their economy is doing well.

[SnoweyMan111]

@hoosierhiver Why would them being a Christian country be good. I only see bad things with them being able to be classified as a christian country.

[hoosierhiver]

@SnoweyMan111 I didn't say it was good or bad, I said that in relation to your comment about it being against the Red Cross, which by the way they have in Korea.

[SnoweyMan111]

@hoosierhiver Hmm, yeah you're right. Kinda irrelevant as that guy corrected me, this is taiwan.

I kinda forgot Red cross had something to do with Christianity. Maybe that's all in the past even.

[TheSkymixx]

Korea, The only country that knows what the fuck is actually going on

[caqtv]

Games like Call of Duty are awesome

stopped watching right there

[PretenNim]

Recent research actually shows violent video games increasing aggression even in those who never act on their violence. So really its more like violent video games tend to lead more to rage, the Red Cross is overreacting. And there's no way I'm going to pull my support for an aid organization just over video games.

[leileilol]

we can't even have red health crosses in games thanks to them. even in 3d movie maker, the amblience has something resembling the konami logo instead of the red cross

[wtfd00d08]

Red Cross=a bunch of whiny newfags

[cwlithium]

007

a fucking classic.

[Timic83tc]

tell this to australia government they will not listen

[Vakrian]

this news is kinda old i saw it a week ago or so...still i pulled my support for red cross over this and i hope other people do aswell

[jfry4]

what are the other 17 titles? 

[JihadOfTheSoul]

guess im 50-50 on the issue

[TaskForceRangerX]

Shit son. I guess I'm wanted for crimes against humanity in the virtual world.

[TheKalimanMX]

MUUUURDEEER SIMULATOR!