Onion Says Violent Video Games Important Training Tools For Apocalypse
With a global financial crisis destabilizing governments and the world as a whole and a sizable nuclear arsenal still in existence in many nations, the threat of an apocalyptic war has never been more looming. All it would take is some recently struggling country to supply a fundamentalist group with a warhead, or the fissionable materials required to make one and boom, we’re launched into universal devastation. While economists and politicians alike are discussing stimulus packages and how to best implement them, the Onion is discussing something far more important.
They’ve raised a question that, although bleak, is a necessary one to ask: are violent video games truly preparing our children for the collapse of civilization? A panel of experts have assembled to discuss the topic and as one might expect, dissenting opinions are being expressed. Some maintain that the industry is preparing our youth quite well for scavenging through the rubble-strewn wreckage of cities for weapons and ammunition as well as how to use health packs to heal zombie bites. Others point out that games like Fallout 3 have informed their children of the importance of effective weapon choices, teaching them that it’s easier to kill a cyborg with a well-placed grenade than a flurry of assault rifle fire.
Dissenters point out that it’d be far more important to teach them other skills including how to construct shelters out of burned out shells of automobiles as well as insisting that children need to have a more realistic look at how difficult it is to fight giant mutant irradiated insects.