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Game About Killing Poachers Vies For Top Prize In Microsoft Student Tech Contest
theodp writes: GeekWire reports on a group of students from Nepal who will be competing for the $50K top prize in Microsoft's Imagine Cup student tech contest with a first-person shooter in which players track down and kill poachers. "Until and unless the player kills all the poachers," reads the description for Defend Your Territory, "he/she cannot progress to next level. To make the game more interesting, there will be lots of weapons and vehicles unlock." So, is this the inspiration Google needs to take their anti-poaching drone program to the next level?
We don't encourage people to stalk and kill murderers, rapists etc.
It would be better if you got to play as a lion/hyena/rhino. More original and less morally ambivalent.
We don't encourage people to stalk and kill murderers, rapists etc.
No, we don't.
That's still every Batman game.
The PETA loons are out tonight. I'd like to see how far you'd go into starvation before you do WHATEVER it takes to feed yourself.
Poachers aren't taking the job because they are starving. They have high powered weapons and expensive off road vehicles. They choose this profession because there is a huge amount of money in it, because, well it is illegal.
These people are the equivalent of of people in the U.S. who kill people for their sneakers.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
Texas penal code contains an unusual provision that grants citizens the right to use deadly force to prevent someone “who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property.”
In 2010, the law protected a Houston taco-truck owner who shot a man for stealing a tip jar containing $20.12. Also in Houston, a store clerk recently killed a man for shoplifting a twelve-pack of beer, and in 2008 a man from Laredo was acquitted for killing a 13-year-old boy who broke into his trailer looking for snacks and soda.
http://nation.time.com/2013/06/13/when-you-can-kill-in-texas/