Jack Thompson Vows to Stop Medal of Honor
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I'm not saying he's right.Evil the White said:
Look, if he actually believed that it was a tool to train people into killing American soldiers, then he's insane. But to bring up the possibility of it being a tool that trains people into killing American soldiers to the secretary of defense whom I'm pretty sure doesn't know much about video games, might just be insane enough to actually work. He doesn't have to believe it as long as he can make the secretary of defense believe it.
This coming from the person who began the debate with a sarcastic "Well that's mature" directed towards me.derelix said:
Hypocrite, consider yourself identified!
If his 'Murder Stimulator' logic says that playing games makes you want to kill, then playing as the Taliban should make no difference since you never see your character and you'll be shooting random generic non-existant people who just so happen to be American.
1. You didn't represent the families of "surviving family members of videogame-caused massacres.", Mr. Thompson. You represented the families of people much like yourself who wish to scapegoat videogames for acts of violence. And I'm not aware of a single case in which the courts in said cases vindicated your version of reality.
2. This kind of grandstanding wasn't successful when you were an actual attorney; is there any reason to believe those in the halls of power should accord you greater consideration now that your antics have gotten you disbarred?
3. Is there any evidence of any shape or form to suggest that Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or any other insurgent group has any interest in using video game technology to train their people, or even the wherewithal to do so? Are we not talking about insurgents who are in many cases fighting in places without consistant access to electricity?
4. Aside from the actual (and by most accounts, largely cosmetic) presence of the Taliban in this game, is there anything to suggest it would make a better training tool than any of a countless number of first-person shooters already available on the market?
5. In the unlikely event that actual members of the Taliban are playing this game, is the chance that it will be an effective training tool any more probable than that its undoubtedly pro-coalition stance will actually act as propaganda against the Taliban's interests?
6. If video games were really one-one thousandth as likely to inspire and incite violence as you have consistently made them out to be, wouldn't it seem likely someone would have taken a shot at you by now? Is your continued existence within this mortal coil not in itself persuasive evidence that video games and their players are far less prone to violence and aggression than you have consistently claimed?
7. Do things like cause and effect and emperical evidence have any relevance to that weird little world you inhabit any more?
Aside from the fact that believing a video game is in any way a 'training tool' for soldiers is kinda nutty, he seems to be forgetting one important factor - I'm no expert on Islam, but I thought they rejected all forms of entertainment anyway. Considering the Taliban are fairly fundamentalist, I think the chances of any of them even playing the game are pretty slim.
Please tell me all of those are jokes. If he seriously said those, he's a complete fucktard. Like he was when he said video games make you a emotionless killer.zipzod said:
Jack... it's over. Let it go. Your insane crusade has cost you everything. Your career. Your standing in the public. Your DIGNITY (especially this). For God's sake, call it quits before you find a way to degrade yourself any further. I mean, even other lawyers think you have no idea what you're doing, hence you getting disbarred.
At first you were a menace. Then you were funny. Now it's just pathetic...
Gamers won, you and every other pathetic politician lost, this "battle" has been over since the mid 2000's. Get over it, move on, and go annoy someone else.
At first you were a menace. Then you were funny. Now it's just pathetic...
Gamers won, you and every other pathetic politician lost, this "battle" has been over since the mid 2000's. Get over it, move on, and go annoy someone else.
I really think Old Jackie boy has nothing better to do now, i mean he is probably one of the biggest anti games activist out there, and everyone thinks he and an over obsessive moron who wastes more time and taxer payer dollars than the government itself!
Jack take what little lawyer money you have left buy a lot of booze and just drink it all then go sky diving with out a para shoot into the pacific ocean, because really that is all you have left drunken dispair.
Jack take what little lawyer money you have left buy a lot of booze and just drink it all then go sky diving with out a para shoot into the pacific ocean, because really that is all you have left drunken dispair.
Actually I did add something pretty intelligent to the debate. Or at least a very intelligent wish that this Jack Thompson dies. This because the man is an obvious moron whose death would mean a slight (if only ever so) increase in the world intelligence levels.derelix said:
So there you go.
So you think by being "honest" let's you off the hook from being an obvious hypocrite? Sorry, it doesn't work that way.derelix said:
Here's what you said:derelix said:
"Your not going to defend your hobby if all you want to do is sling insults and tell anyone who disagrees with you to "grow up" it's not that easy."
That makes you a hypocrite, because we OBVIOUSLY disagree on the matter at hand, yet you saw fit to question my "maturity" out of hand. Heck you even INTRODUCED yourself into the discussion by doing just that.
When I respond in turn by basically doing the exact same thing ("Grow up" implies that one finds the other to be IMMATURE), you criticize ME for questioning YOUR maturity/implying that you are immature.
That makes you nothing short of a fucking hypocrite...
I thought this scum-sucking waste of life had died. And I don't think that replicating anything from any video-game would work all that great in real life.