In the words but our beloved Guenther Beckstein, in a speech in front of senior public :

The game Counter-Strike was developed by the U.S. Army to reduce the threshold for violence among the soldiers. Such games are not only censored, but prohibited!

With the bursting of the real collar soon. On the one hand would be to find fault with this quote (and there are some things to complain about), that Counter-Strike, or as us geeks Shaka briefly referred to as CS-far developed by the U.S. Army was. No, the game was developed by Valve, which have no contact with the Army (I say now simply). I would be interested to know what Valve says to himself ... No, our Becki probably meant the game Americas Army . This game was in fact developed by the Army. But ...

The game was not designed to reduce the threshold to the soldiers Let's talk plain.:

The game was developed by the U.S. Army to win Rekruden for the professional army in America. The successful players will be contacted by e-mail from the Army. That it is not about lowering the threshold for violence should be clear, when we hear that America has a professional army and relies on the voluntary support of people in America. There is no system in Germany, where people can freely speak, moreover, only by a two-sided argument against the armed service. You have to justify themselves, then, why you do not want to know the real use of a weapon. And then forbid virtual shooting? If the model of the pattern would sometimes be transferred to the computer games, then you would have to be but a page-long essay justifying why you want to play such games do not. And not vice versa. But this is a confused idea, I admit.

Now others are might be thinking, OK, the Army wrote to those who shoot best you can. Which is not so. America's Army is a tactical shooter. There are so many mental abilities in the foreground, such as the planning of operations, so you end up as the winner of the place is. These people need the Army. And no brainless weapons pushers. Which there is already enough and are not hard to find. To search No, thinker.

The game was not so developed to the glorification of violence. Even if you think the games would be used internally for the soldiers to disappoint you, unfortunately. The Army is not training the use of virtual weapon. The opinion of the Army, according to the computer games, far from the threshold set down. There is still a difference if you shoot a real gun at someone, or do virtually. In a real situation, you need a lot more to overcome, because the execution is actually real consequences, as opposed to computer games. This point should every man clearly in mind are (and I count the people and the politicians!).

The Honourable Mr. Beckstein should refer to the next time please tell his audience better and no fairy tale. Even if he would be justified by the fact that it was a slip of the tongue: Even if this were so, would the quote that is shameful. Just exactly the reasons mentioned above.

Peace.

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