Jack Thompson Claiming Games Industry in Collusion with DoD

mytrip brings us a Wired blog about Jack Thompson's recent press release, which claims an "unholy alliance" exists between the gaming industry and the U.S. Department of Defense. Game Politics also has a discussion of Thompson's main points. From Wired: "Jim Blank, the head of the modeling and simulation division of the U.S. Joint Forces Command, says that commercial games don't meet the demand of the military, adding, 'first-person shooter games really don't apply in this environment.' Blank's point is that game-like simulations are a valuable tool for training soldiers in situations that would be too expensive to simulate in reality."

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Thank you for the clarification. Given that The Ten Commandments are the base for most western laws/morality. I would suspect that the mistranslation was not always mistranslated. It is widely regarded in western cultures as immoral and a breach of the social contract to murder someone, but to kill someone in the defense of you family or nation is perhaps regrettable but not immoral. In King James'es day perhaps "Thou shalt not kill" held the correct connotations or perhaps it was subtle change made by a pacifist monk. Either way 50% of the words use in "Thou shalt not kill" are no longer in common use today, how could we think that the statement is "unambiguous".