Busybody religous extremists have done this before, I have seen quite a few “reviews” written by someone who claims to have insight into the darker events in a game from the christian viewpoint. Who straight-up LIED about the in-game events, in order to sensationalize them and villianize the game in question. By Bible law, this person is going to burn in hell. 75% of christians are fake, self serving hyporcrites (especially the internet activists) and are going to fry in the same so-called hell they condemn everyone else to according to the laws of the bible.

Yea, the above comment just about sums up my feelings about this whole thing. Except I don’t single the Christians out. All religions are guilty of this.

Yes, that about sums it up. But it’s not just the religious zealots that do this. It’s the politicians and mommy groups too.

Basically, people who don’t play games and don’t understand what they are.

Fear of the unknown leads to fear that they cannot control this “evil”. They also want to make headlines and fire up jerks like us.

I always find it amusing how all these activists keep insisting that games lead to higher crime figures. In most countries, crime figures are steadily dropping – while the amount of people playing games increases drastically.

Speaking of the UK and crime figures people will use numbers to “prove” any point. Got into a debate this morning with one of my fellow fire fighters that violent crime is on the rise in the UK because they don’t have “enough” firearms for the law abiding citizens to defend themselves with. My head was literally about to explode when this was followed up by proclamations from the others that there should be laws requiring everyone to carry a weapon, which I guess makes sense if you’re from a place like Pandora.

Michele,

There is a strong correlation between laws that allow the possession and use of weapons in self defense and low figures as far as violent crimes go.

I can show you plenty of articles in the British press, where people who defended themselves (even with improvised weapons) against attackers and home intruders were then arrested and sent to prison. That is absurd.

This is why I dislike 99.9% of organised religion. I feel our choices as adults are being taken away by extremists all the time.

Bah…

In other news there was that one guy here who defended himself with a sword, got off free due to reasonable force. I believe he only ‘nicked’ the thug’s ear.

Off the top of my head:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1032755/Businessman-grabbed-thug-smashing-window-charged-assault.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7331099.stm

And wasn’t some actress recently arrested for stabbing an intruder with a kitchen knife, when they busted in as she and her child were at home?