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Jack Thompson's Letter To Take-Two Exec's Mother

Posted by timothy on from the an-insult-to-actual-slime-molds-everywhere dept.

debatem1 writes "Apparently, anti-violent-video-games crusader Jack Thompson is at it again, this time writing a letter to the mother of Strauss Zelnick, Chairman of Take-Two, the company that produces the GTA series of video games. In it he compares Zelnick to a member of the Hitler Youth, advocates beating the young Zelnick, and contemplates the existence of a Ted Bundy merit badge for boy scouts."

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  1. Re:Jack's utter lack of a sense of irony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That supposedly Christian ethic, is by and large the ethic of the western world in general.
    The two are pretty much inseparable.

    Most of the "Christian Ethic", is just what people feel is right, and since they know their religion is right, then they know it's what their religion would want them to do.

    Don't fall into the trap of assuming that Christianity is out to get you.

  2. Re:Jack's utter lack of a sense of irony by nuzak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Re:Jack's utter lack of a sense of irony (Score:-1, Troll)

    by drinkypoo (153816) Alter Relationship on Sunday May 04, @02:32PM (#23294632) Homepage Journal

    The comparison is more than apt, since the Boy Scouts is a Christian organization which exists as much to promote a supposedly-Christian ethic (won't get into it now) as it does to provide wilderness skills. Which has done more damage to the world through ideology is up for debate.


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  3. Re:Jack's utter lack of a sense of irony by iamacat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm sure you never faltered in your moral direction when you were an adolescent, right? I resisted tremendous government, parent and peer pressure in childhood and adolescence, yes. Granted it was in Soviet Union rather than Nazi Germany. But still, thousands of German teenagers resisted Nazis and paid with their life or were tortured in concentration camp, many for religious reasons. I do not fault the pope as a person, however catholic church had uncountable candidates who showed more dedication to the cause.