Saw a 5 second clip - no desire to watch more. Very 1st person shooter.

Stepping away from the gun debate, seems like we should have some concern about these 1st person shooter games. Essentially training young minds in a fantasy / virtual reality environment that is more and more realistic all the time to play war or terrorist, killing with impunity without any possible consequences to them. Heck, the most unrealistic part of these games may now be how easy it is to kill yet how hard it is to be "killed" yourself (plus you just come back to life seconds later and try again).

Its one thing for a kid / teen / young adult to be have insanely realistic, virtual reality, fantasy play at being a basketball or soccer star - seem another to have those same young minds trained at insanely realistic, virtual reality, fantasy play at being a soldier, terrorist, invincible killing machine.

I am not generally for banning things, but I think we should have concern as a society at how this training effects the minds of our young.

We train pilots, astronauts, soldiers etc for hundreds of hours on simulators so then instinctively know how to react, how how to think, how to move and how to make decisions. Aren't we doing the same "training" with all the people who spend hundreds or thousands of hours playing these games?

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