Why We Fight

AsiNisiMasa writes "The Contrarian in this week's The Escapist is a brutally honest and exceptionally disturbing piece entitled 'Why We Fight.' It examines the underlying mentality behind our affinity for violent behavior in games, citing the desire for efficiency at all costs. From the article: 'Your people face famine, plague, poverty and unrest. What policies would you enact to solve these problems? (Fans of Tropico, you know how this works.) My friend's solution? Death camps. Round up the sick, the lame, the infertile, the ignorant, the useless, the unproductive and execute them.'"

Comments

Re:Missing the point.

[damsa]

Pol Pot wasn't killing people to reduce famine and disease, he was killing people, so he would have a communist utopia of farmers and workers, void of intellectuals and enemies. Dictators are not rational. They don't do a cost benefit analysis, that's why they are called dictators, they dictate, there is no consensus among their underlings on the best course of action. Besides, non facist governments kill and commit genocide as much as their non facist counterparts.