There’s this silly oversensitive U.S. woman who lost her son in the Afghan war and who is now angry at Electronic Arts for letting players play the Taliban (vs U.S. Army Rangers) in the Medal of Honor video game. She believes that a game modeled after the war her son just died in is “disrespectful,” because “war is not a game, period.”

“My son didn’t get to start over when he was killed. His life is over, and I have to deal with this every day…it’s just not a game.”

Well, duh!

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Listening to her “arguments” against the game’s scenario is pretty funny, since she’s not only lacking logic, but is also contradicting herself. It sort of reminds me of all those people who used to speak out against the Grand Theft Auto series saying it was making their kids do crazy stuff, like run over hookers with their cars or be violent in school with their AK-47s. That bunch had no clue wtf they were talking about either.

But the worst thing about this woman’s whole issue with the game is that she’s dishonoring what her son fought and died for. Freedom. That’s what’s disrespectful.

Someone should tell her to get back in the kitchen and stop making an ass of herself in the media.



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  • armymom

    This post was obviously written by a young male gamer. Of course this woman is oversensitive – her son has been killed in service to his country. As a mother of an 11b infantryman in the U.S. Army, I am sensitive to the gravity of war and to the soldiers that fight them. I was appalled to see video game advertisements on the Army recruitment website. Somehow that doesn’t seem appropriate – yes, even a kind of disrespect to real soldiers.

  • http://armannd.com/ Titus-Armand

    I do play computer games, but I’m not sure I do it enough to be considered a gamer. And while I can understand the sensitivity to the subject experienced by some mothers of soldiers, bringing a flawed argument to fight against the freedom those soldiers are fighting for isn’t exactly appropriate either. To me that seems extremely selfish and misses the big picture.

    And I’m sure a lot of real soldiers do play those video games advertised on the Army website. And they enjoy them, because they’re games.