(Sees the American flag waiving behind nick_davison while the national anthem is playing)
I don't think anyone is arguing that he shouldn't be able create and show it.
I think he's just another person that is capitalizing on a tragic event and the suffering of other people. The only difference in this case is the form he's presenting it under, i.e., a game. From playing it and reading what he says, I don't see any "hihger value" shining through. He's just an opertunist, one of many. A comparison of this to Citizen Kane is absurd. A better comparison is O.J. Simpson's "If I Had Done It."
He has the right to create it, I have the right to condem him for it. Actions have consequences and he is deserving of most of the backlash he's getting. What did he expect?
Sure, he has the right for free speech yada yada... (and does the right to free speach actually cover digitally recreating the massacare of children so that you can play one of the murderers?) but I should also have the right to put my foot up his @ss for trying to profit from other people's misery.
It's one thing to make a shooter based in a school, antoher thing to actually call it Columbine. His actual reasons for this are pretty transparent to me, despite what he may publically say his intentions were.
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(Sees the American flag waiving behind nick_davison while the national anthem is playing) I don't think anyone is arguing that he shouldn't be able create and show it. I think he's just another person that is capitalizing on a tragic event and the suffering of other people. The only difference in this case is the form he's presenting it under, i.e., a game. From playing it and reading what he says, I don't see any "hihger value" shining through. He's just an opertunist, one of many. A comparison of this to Citizen Kane is absurd. A better comparison is O.J. Simpson's "If I Had Done It." He has the right to create it, I have the right to condem him for it. Actions have consequences and he is deserving of most of the backlash he's getting. What did he expect?
Sure, he has the right for free speech yada yada... (and does the right to free speach actually cover digitally recreating the massacare of children so that you can play one of the murderers?) but I should also have the right to put my foot up his @ss for trying to profit from other people's misery. It's one thing to make a shooter based in a school, antoher thing to actually call it Columbine. His actual reasons for this are pretty transparent to me, despite what he may publically say his intentions were.