I'm not a soldier, but I play one in video games. If there is one thing countless hours spent in such shooters as Call of Duty, Battlefield, Arma , and Red Orchestra have taught me its that soldiers are most definitely NOT wimps or cowards. I mean, as much as the media likes to constantly say that the FPS genre teaches kids that war is fun, the truth of the matter is that anyone - kid or otherwise - who has spent a few hours in a shooter quickly learns that warfare, particularly modern warfare, is deadly business, a message quite distinct from Hollywood and its action movies where the hero never gets much more than a flesh wound - I'm looking at you, Expendables 2 . It is for this reason that I have always believed that the modern shooter is probably the greatest tool for promoting peace the world as ever seen. Video gamers have seen the virtual horrors of war and have no desire for it to play out in real life. It is for this reason that real life s...
Because Edmund Burke would have been a gamer....