Binary John Kennedy Assassination Video Game Poll

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Do you think the manufacturers of the game should voluntarily pull it from the market?


I do....

The manufacturers of the racist monopoly game pulled their game from the market....

[acmavm]

1. Hell yes. Look at what the video games are doing to some of these

kids who play them constantly. Oh wait, let me think about this a minute.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I Dislike Violent Video Games But I Wouldn't Prohibit Them

but this is fundamentally different...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. I'd Like To Hear The People Who Voted Yes...

How about video game reenactments of Dr. King or Malcom X....

Or the crucifixion of Christ...

[formernaderite]

27. Are you sure....don't you mean

you'd like to hear from those of us who voted "no"? I did, because I don't believe in censorship of any kind, and I have adult sons who play with violent video games and they aren't axe murderers. I wouldn't advocate giving this stuff to kids....but adults have every right to offend. Yes, it's offensive....but that's about it.

[Mojambo]

3. They should do what they want to do

Nobody is being forced to buy it or play it. I certainly never would.

I have absolutely NO interest in dictating to anyone what is or isn't offensive.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. I draw the line somewhere...

do you have any boundaries?

[Mojambo]

7. I draw the line at my own nose n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. by then it might be too late....

nt

[Mojambo]

9. That is the price we pay in a society with free expression n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. It Was A British Company....

nt

[Mojambo]

11. And that matters how exactly?

I support the right of free expression. Even if I find the content extremely offensive.

People should set their own personal standards and not set them for others.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. I Said The Company Should Voluntarily Pull It...

What if I wanted to make a video game of the lynching of Matthew Sheppard or Barry Winchell...


Would you recommend that I voluntarily pull them from the market?

[Mojambo]

13. No. I think I've been very clear

that I wouldn't make that recommendation.

I think people are FULLY capable of making the decision themselves. It's not my job to determine what is and is not appropriate.

It is my position that everyone should do their own personal censoring.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. So There's No Place For Shame In Your Society....

Is it your position that no act is worthy of opprobrium ?

[Mojambo]

16. I think that each person is capable of determining what is shameful

on their own. I certainly don't need anyone making that determination for me.

For instance, the Catholic Church finds homosexuality quite shameful. I do not. I'm fine if they don't support homosexuality but I am not so fine if they actively attack it.

I will not support things that I find shameful. But I am wary of actively opposing something just because I find it offensive in the extreme. I think this is the safest way to proceed in an open and free society.

[RafterMan]

19. That is the problem

and the whole justification for free speech.

I don't want the Satanic Verses pulled, either.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

21. Of Course...

but even in an open society there is a place for shame...

I think the makers of that game should be shamed not punished by law but shamed....

[RafterMan]

23. Well, shaming is fine

but I get nervous about the idea of pulling offensive materials out of circulation. What would you say if the Satanic Verses, or the van Gogh film were pulled due to their offensive content?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

24. I See Your Point...

My idea of what is bad and your idea of what is bad can be different...


But a videogame where you can "reshoot President Kennedy in the motorcade" is pretty awful....

What are boycotts?


Aren't they democratic movements to effect non-governmental change...


on edit- look at all the mucle put on Sinclair Broadcasting by the left and it worked....

[RafterMan]

25. But Stolen Honor wasn't "pulled from the market"

My great objection to that was that a media company was using the airwaves to make an illegal campaign contribution to Bush. If it had just been floating around the way Going Upriver was I would probably not boycot anyone because of it, even though it was all lies.

But even if the case had been made to pull SH from the market, I would still view the two situations differently -- "it's offensive" and "it helps Bush get elected" are two different kinds of counterargument. The first kind I'll almost always be against, the second kind requires individual weighing and measuring before I'd take a stand.

[PsN2Wind]

18. Maybe an American company

SELF Deleted for tastelessness

[Cheswick2.0]

20. yes and our free expression means we can put all the pressure we

want in the manufacturer or this game to get it recalled. We do it by public discussion, boycotts etc....

[DemocratSinceBirth]

22. Thank You...

Isn't that the hallmark of an open society....


That game is horrible and the manufacturers should be shamed into pulling it from the market...

Not by force of law but by the will of the people ...

I wonder how that poster felt about the "muscle" put on Sinclair Broadcasting to pull or edit it's Swift Boat Liars inspired hit piece on Kerry....

[Mojambo]

28. I agree. Free expression is a beautiful thing

I encourage you to participate fully.

[Career Prole]

4. If they won't pull it I wonder if Jodie Foster will do voiceovers

for the Reagan game.

[stepnw1f]

15. The Use of a Government Official

and an American Icon to many nin this way, is insensitive to those who revered the man. I believe this is an effort to marginalize popular Democrats. They had to have known what the reaction would be.

Who's next? Martin Luther King?

[AntiCoup2K4]

17. To me, the true offensiveness of this game, aside from the violence...

...and the fact that it claims to re-enact an actual murder, is that that's exactly what it does NOT do.

It's a piece of propaganda designed to push the ludicrous theory that Oswald and his magic bullet did everything.

A more realistic game would have Hunt & Sturgis coming out of the grassy knoll, signaled by Poppy's Cuban friends with umbrellas (it wasn't raining, BTW)

[Shopaholic]

26. Keith Olbermann gave the name of the manufacturer

and the name of the man who runs the company tonight on Countdown. Have I mentioned in the last five minutes how much I love that man?