Saturday 18 December 2021

Fun with Killing

Something of note about the human race is that we enjoy killing people more than helping them.

Take video games. Most are about us killing people, or watching people being killed in various tragic ways. And it's point-of-view killing. You are the gun sight. As close to the killing as you can get, virtually.

Call of Duty: Black Ops is NOT about an operating room that saves people from myocardial infarction. 

It could just as easily have been the opposite, but it's not.

You can't buy Call of Duty: Family Doctor

Your mission: Billy has a high fever, the back of his knees hurt and he's hurling obscenities at his classmates.

What's wrong with Billy? Seasonal Tourettes flu? Is he just a bad seed?

We want to heal Billy, not double tap his family with a .338 Lapua Magnum.

I wonder if aliens are the same. Do they get away from it all with mass carnage of their own species? Do they relax and feel accomplished with a record 120 head shots? (if they have heads)

Maybe some day we'll meet them and find out. Compare games. If they're the same, we can start killing each other's species, virtually.

Call of Duty: Off World Homicide