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Old 04-01-2010, 10:59 AM   #33 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ARTelevision View Post
This further coarsens, cheapens, and dehumanizes us.
It is disingenuous to pretend otherwise.
We've certainly become desensitized, if nothing else. Most of the people on this forum are probably too young to remember, but in 1976, a video game called Death Race was released. In the game, you drove around in a car chasing "gremlins" (they had to call them that - to consider them as people probably would have prevented the game's release), and when you ran them over, they turned into tombstones and you got points.

That seems pretty tame nowadays, doesn't it? But the outrage at the time was even more widespread than it is now over this game. It was a very big deal.

You can't legislate taste, I guess.

EDIT LATER: Plan9, your idea sounds like a variation of the Leisure Suit Larry series
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