"Kill Japs! Kill Japs! Kill more Japs!" - Bull Halsey. . . I can only imagine the panty-wetting that would happen in reaction to that utterance today.
Posted on 12/09/2011 2:39:49 PM PST by Da Bilge Troll
THE Red Cross is investigating whether 600 million gamers are violating the Hague and Geneva conventions when they kill and blow stuff up for fun.
Delegates at the 31st International Conference of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Red Crescent raised the concerns over the potential “International Humanitarian Law” violations – which can constitute war crimes - during a workshop in Geneva.
“Exactly how video games influence individuals is a hotly debated topic, but for the first time, Movement partners discussed our role and responsibility to take action against violations of IHL in video games,” the Red Cross wrote in its daily bulletin.
“While National Societies shared their experiences and opinions, there is clearly no simple answer. There is, however, an overall consensus and motivation to take action.”
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Leftist Utopians are hilarious tyrants.
"Dr. Skinner. Paging Dr. Skinner. Dr. Skinner to the white operant conditioning phone..."
Delegates at the 31st International Conference of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Red Crescent raised the concerns over the potential "International Humanitarian Law" violations -- which can constitute war crimes -- during a workshop in Geneva. "Exactly how video games influence individuals is a hotly debated topic, but for the first time, Movement partners discussed our role and responsibility to take action against violations of IHL in video games," the Red Cross wrote in its daily bulletin.The International Red Cross is guilty of decades of bigotry regarding its treatment of the Israeli aid organization.
eh, I’m more worried about the hundreds of cities I let be torched while playing Missile Command.
We better arrest Bill Gates, for indirectly contributing to war games and gamers and video machine builcers.
For now.
"Kill Japs! Kill Japs! Kill more Japs!" - Bull Halsey. . . I can only imagine the panty-wetting that would happen in reaction to that utterance today.
Way, way too much time on their hands.
Oh, dear.
I killed over 220,000 alliance in World of Warcraft. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of various other humanoids I encountered in that game.
If I stop posting on Free Republic, we’ll know that the international law finally caught up with me.
Will “They shouldn’t have been alliance” be a suitable defense for my war crimes trial, I wonder?
These are pussies that excoriate the West and say little about the crimes of radical Islamists. They do this because it is safer.
"..Video games and IHL: how should the Movement take action?
While the Movement works vigorously to promote international humanitarian law (IHL) worldwide, there is also an audience of approximately 600 million gamers who may be violating IHL in the virtual world. Exactly how video games influence individuals is a hotly debated topic, but for the first time, Movement partners discussed their role and responsibility to take action against violations of IHL in video games. In a side event, participants were asked: “what should we do, and what is the most effective method?” While National Societies shared their experiences and opinions, there is clearly no simple answer. There is, however, an overall consensus and motivation to take action..."
Relax. Disproven, disproven, disproven...
See 33.
The American Red Cross is denying it.
Oh.
Umm, wait--maybe not.
≤}B^)
31st International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
"..The Statutes of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement state "The International Conference is the supreme deliberative body for the Movement". At the International Conference, representatives of the components of the Movement meet with representatives of the States Party to the Geneva Conventions (…). Together they examine and decide upon humanitarian matters of common interest and any other related matter" (Art. 8)..."
600 million gamers never signed the Hague or Geneva Conventions, so they don’t apply to them.
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