Animal Lovers Bite Back at Dog Killing in Call of Duty: World at War

They always bring up the "fact" that it desensitizes people to violence. Honestly I still get kinda squeemish seeing real blood, injuries in the real world look a lot different than those in a game so it doesn't really prepare you for it at all. Her take on the game is wrong, participating in a war is the entertainment of the game, killing dogs is not the object of the entertainment as she puts it. Her argument is full of holes, it really doesn't make any sense.

EDIT: I jsut wanted to add, what the hell is with these people and always saying like, "Oh my brother/son would never do this but someone else might!" Give me a break, like your brother is so special that he can handle it and no one else can. Everyone else posting in here is right, this game might give some enjoyment to someone who likes killing animals but its not going to make anyone turn into a dog killer.

The girl (Breanna) from the article is responding to comments being made on the original article's website.

  http://www.topix.net/forum/source/lowell-sun/TCJTCFUCNMHG0USQ1

Anyone play Activision's Gun?  Dogs + dynamite arrows = hilarious.

Andrew Eisen

Ya know, the story is filled with so much hypocricy.

First, let's take the context out, just as she does.

Shooting doggies is bad.

Shooting Humans is acceptable enough for your brother to actually play the game.

Now, let's add a little context.

Shooting doggies who are attacking your character: bad.

Shooting Humans who are attacking your character: acceptable.

Another bit of context taken out is that shooting the dogs is "entertainment".  Dogs were, and still are, used as a weapon by Humans.  Guard dogs, attack dogs, and so on.  To my knowledge, in the context of the game, you're shooting at living weapons.  The dogs in the game can and do attack you.  But, from what she is saying, Humans are expendable while dogs are a protected species.

Also, let's take dogs out of the picture.  While it may not hurt the interactive nature of the game, it does lead to a, very minor though it may be, form of revisionism.  Media takes on any one or more forms.  Educational, Entertainment, and Expression.  As a simulator/game, COD may have a high rating under the Entertainment heading, but it also has some rating under Education in general.  This is what war is like.  This is what people do/have done to one another in war.  So, in a small way, leaving such detail out is a form of revisionism.

This actually reminds me of the issue of noise pollution revolving around more environmentally friendly cars which produce far less noise, making some almost silent.  An organization working with visually impair people complained that silent cars made it hazerdous for visually impaired pedestrians who wanted to cross streets because they couldn't hear the silent cars.  A few environmentalists who supported the silent cars actually emailed the head of the organizations and said that the visually impaired people were expendable and deserved to die rather than make cars that made even a little noise for the visually impaired people to hear.

Nightwng2000

NW2K Software

Nightwng2000 has also updated his MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/nightwing2000 Nightwng2000 is now admin to the group "Parents For Education, Not Legislation" on MySpace as http://groups.myspace.com/pfenl

Hmm, I wonder if she'd have a haeart attack if it was learned that Russia attempted to train anti tank dogs in World War 2

So the education has plumetted this badly to where high school students have trouble discerning what is real and "entertainment"?

Lady, if your brother isn't going to torment animals after playign a video game, odds are very few people, if anyone else will.

Also, killing the dogs isn't entertaining, however your argument is severalyears too late as you were already able to kill dogsin at least two of the Metal Gear Solid games, but it was never to entertain the palyer, it was a matter of survival. Other options, like bait would be nice though.

Hmm, now that I think about it, in one old WW2 game, you coudl toss a grenade, and a dog would take it back to it's owner. Where were the animal crulety charges then?

Again it comes down to this with animal rights protestors, animal life is more important than human life.