Poll: Where do you draw the line?
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Kill.
Kill them all.
ALL OF THEM.
EVERY LAST MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD!
LET THE SEAS RUN RED WITH THEIR BLOOD, AND THE AIR BE FILLED WITH THEIR CRIES!
OH SLAUGHTER, OH CARNAGE, OH SANGUINE BLADE DRIPPING WITH LIFE'S VERY ESSENCE! I LONG TO REVEL IN CHAOS, SUFFERING AND DESPAIR!
LET THE CHILDREN OF KHORNE DRINK TIL THEIR BELLIES BURST, FOR TODAY IS A DAY OF BLOOD!
Kill them all.
ALL OF THEM.
EVERY LAST MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD!
LET THE SEAS RUN RED WITH THEIR BLOOD, AND THE AIR BE FILLED WITH THEIR CRIES!
OH SLAUGHTER, OH CARNAGE, OH SANGUINE BLADE DRIPPING WITH LIFE'S VERY ESSENCE! I LONG TO REVEL IN CHAOS, SUFFERING AND DESPAIR!
LET THE CHILDREN OF KHORNE DRINK TIL THEIR BELLIES BURST, FOR TODAY IS A DAY OF BLOOD!
There's no such thing as "innocence."Blue_vision said:
50,000 species go extinct every year due to human expansion.
How is an individual human any more or less "innocent" than a locust, or a bacterium, or green-blue algae, or a fieldmouse, or anything else that gets exterminated due to being in plague proportions?
I am a pacifist in most games; I prefer to only attack someone who attacked me first. Even if I knew it would be best if I killed a specific person, I am reluctant when they don't fight me on sight. Unless of course the person is a jerk to me, then I would have fun killing them.
Since it's not reality, I have no problem killing anything. In fact, I wish there were more animals and children and babies in video games (I mean I wish there were ANY!). In the real world, where shit actually counts....I am against violence in just about all forms.
If they irritate me, I kill 'em. I don't just go around killing people, mind you; only if they get in my way or otherwise disturb me. I'd say it takes the least to get me pissed off at children and the most to get me to kill innocent animals.
The line is very fuzzy for me but there are many idividuals I choose not to kill. I just feel it isn't right for them to die. The Raknai (Sp?) Queen for one.
I go by the rule you don't bother me and I won't shoot you. if something tries to kill me I will get rid it. If it doesn't then I leave it alone. Though in Dante's Inferno I refuse to damn the baby demons.
This is the kind of question that bugs me morally. I mean if I were playing a sandbox game like GTAIV and there were suddenly children pedestrians, I would still run them over. It may seem cruel but I have a strict hatred for NPCs and their fixed personas. What it takes for me to actually care for an ingame character's life is that they need to have a convincing personality and emotions. Now you better believe I tried my best to save Shaun in Heavy rain and I was even sad when Jason died. Only the games in which taking someone's life, where there is a clear understanding of the impact a gun could cause, can I cross the line. Not in games like GTAIV where everyone is so passive and unphased to murder.
It's a game. I can kill anyone and anything. Drawing arbitrary lines in the sand just feels stupid.
That said, even though I can kill anyone or anything, I rarely do if I am presented with the opportunity.
(I kill things by accident sometimes, which is annoying.)
I get the odd impulse to go on an insane killing spree if a game will let me, or purposely do things the game mechanics imply are bad...
But that feeling doesn't usually last beyond a few minutes, at which point I go back to being almost obnoxiously good.
I remember games where you have the option of knocking out, rather than killing your enemies...
I did that too just for the fun of it, a lot of the time.
Thing is, it's not real. And I don't see what's so horrible about killing a fake depiction of a child compared to killing a fake depiction of an adult.
It's still killing. (And I don't really get the mentality anyway. Aside from the fact that most kids are defenseless compared to adults, and it's messed up harming people who don't stand much of a chance of defending themselves, I don't really see it as being any different.)
That said, even though I can kill anyone or anything, I rarely do if I am presented with the opportunity.
(I kill things by accident sometimes, which is annoying.)
I get the odd impulse to go on an insane killing spree if a game will let me, or purposely do things the game mechanics imply are bad...
But that feeling doesn't usually last beyond a few minutes, at which point I go back to being almost obnoxiously good.
I remember games where you have the option of knocking out, rather than killing your enemies...
I did that too just for the fun of it, a lot of the time.
Thing is, it's not real. And I don't see what's so horrible about killing a fake depiction of a child compared to killing a fake depiction of an adult.
It's still killing. (And I don't really get the mentality anyway. Aside from the fact that most kids are defenseless compared to adults, and it's messed up harming people who don't stand much of a chance of defending themselves, I don't really see it as being any different.)
The only problem I ever have is say when you kill a dog, that little yelp noise they make. Doesn't last long though. Little fuckers grouping up on me on WaW...