High Schoolers Protest Call of Duty Dog Killing
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That girl was probably just looking for something to feign outrage over so that she good feel self-righteous and morally superior.
Perhaps she should stop protesting a portrayl of real events, and start protesting Nazi's during WWII.... I mean, seriously, this game is based in reality, and yes, believe it or not, dogs had been trained to kill humans during that war... Well... As based in reality as a mainstream game can be.
Keane Ng said:High Schoolers Protest Call of Duty Dog Killing
More than 100 students at the Academy of Notre Dame in Massachusetts have signed a petition protesting the killing of dogs in Call of Duty: World at War.
Breanna Lucci, a 19-year-old student at the Academy of Notre Dame High School [http://www.ndatyngsboro.org/] in Tygnsboro, Massachusetts, was watching her older brother play Call of Duty: World at War when she saw something in the game that disgusted her: he killed a dog.
"My little 12-pound Pomeranian, Winnie the Pooh, is sitting next to him, and I'm thinking, 'This looks horrible!'" Lucci recalled [http://www.lowellsun.com/ci_11949013]. "My brother is a sweetheart. He won't be killing dogs after playing. But some people might."
Lucci's fear that "some people might" be driven to kill dogs because of Call of Duty has led her to start a petition protesting what she sees as the despicable acts portrayed in the game. "Killing dogs as a form of entertainment ... over and over again...That's one of the objects of the game," she said. "Parents need to know what they are buying their kids. Killing animals should not be a form of entertainment."
Lucci, who is the president of the school's animal rights club, pushed the petition throughout her school, and has gotten more than 100 classmates to sign their names. She hopes to eventually send it to Activision-Blizzard. Lucci has also won the support of school faculty, including the moderator of her club, Barbara Vitale, an English teacher who emphatically stated that "we don't think killing people is a good idea either."
Neither do we. See, in all the indignant uproar, Lucci and her supporters are missing one important thing: context. Killing dogs is indeed one part of the "form of entertainment" that World at War delivers, but the game is far from a puppy murder sim. These animals are trying to kill you, so maybe killing them back isn't such a horrible thing to do. If we could hug all these rabid canines into submission, we would, but sometime's a rifle's all you got.
Also, Winnie the Pooh is a bear. That's not a very good name for a dog.
[Via Kotaku [http://kotaku.com/5176785/students-protest-call-of-duty-dog-killing]]
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i hate people like this, there retarted, its a video game, plus the dogs r trying 2 kill u
"My little 12-pound Pomeranian, Winnie the Pooh, is sitting next to him, and I'm thinking, 'This looks horrible!'" Lucci recalled. "My brother is a sweetheart. He won't be killing dogs after playing. But some people might." - i LOL'd, a Pomeranian isnt a dog, its an annoyance
"My little 12-pound Pomeranian, Winnie the Pooh, is sitting next to him, and I'm thinking, 'This looks horrible!'" Lucci recalled. "My brother is a sweetheart. He won't be killing dogs after playing. But some people might." - i LOL'd, a Pomeranian isnt a dog, its an annoyance
Such an equivacable topic frustrates me; the SPCA whines about funding as if they think they whould be a higher priority than organizations like UNICEF.RAKtheUndead said:
I really want to hit people who think people want to do kill people or things because they did it in a game. Really, who is dumb or influential enough?
It's a game. It is not real. Deal with it and let people play. In games you can do things you could not normally do in real life and get away with it. In war there WERE attack dogs, and soldiers HAD to kill them to SURVIVE. They didn't just let the dogs eat through their throats because they're animals. No one just allows something to kill them unless they're suicidal.
It's a game. It is not real. Deal with it and let people play. In games you can do things you could not normally do in real life and get away with it. In war there WERE attack dogs, and soldiers HAD to kill them to SURVIVE. They didn't just let the dogs eat through their throats because they're animals. No one just allows something to kill them unless they're suicidal.
Agreed. This is actually pretty pathetic that people would get this worked up about something this silly.RAKtheUndead said:
Funny thing is she said "He's not going to kill dogs but some people might" That is the argument that Jack Thompson has been using for years.
If you are the kind of person that plays Call of Duty: World at War and goes out and kills a dog because of it, you are a sick and twisted human being and do not deserve to live.
The only reason I was sad after slaughtering tons of dogs in Fallout was because they cried right before they died. But then I realized that the dog attacked me for no reason when I was just minding my own business out in the wasteland so I didn't feel bad any more.The Shade said:
I say fuck the dogs they all deserve to die... in the virtual world. I can imagine activision - blizzard, picking up the petition and staring at it blankly before bursting into diarrhea inducing laughter. Anyone who thinks killing virtual dogs in Call of Duty is wrong isn't a gamer, but yes it IS entertaining. And why not spare a moment for the minotaurs in God of War?
What a poor girl. Naming her dog Winnie the Pooh is torture enough. If she is going to cry about killing virtual dogs, then she should write a petition banning her from naming animals too. Also, I think it's nice that her brother would never kill a dog. But, he is apparently some sort of Saint, and if he doesn't do it, we must, because we can not reach his level of superiority.