Madam, – When I heard of the school massacre in Erfurt, Germany last week I shuddered as I remembered watching my young relatives massacre a village of women and children over Christmas.
They sat on a sofa with joysticks in their hands, “playing” an X-Box. The sneaky movements of a sniper in combat uniform were perfectly simulated as he crept around an unmistakably Middle Eastern setting and shot dead innocent, unsuspecting villagers. The sound effects were eerily accurate, the whole concept stomach-churning for me.
Why does this correlation go unnoticed? Has nobody else felt utterly bewildered at the seeming “normality” of today’s youth playing virtual slaughter with their own hands? Each of us has the potential to kill. We all have powerful negative feelings within us, as well powerful positivity. Why do we allow this fuelling of human evil, the nurturing of it at a young, impressionable age?
It is imperative that the licence given to companies to create, advertise and sell computer games that corrupt and poison vulnerable minds be stopped immediately. Can we please make a stand? – Yours, etc,