You're quite right. Just think of all the movies, television series, novels, and video games that routinely portray American characters as terrorists, psychopaths, serial killers, etc. Are any of these being banned by the Gov? No!
On the other hand, do you really think one could sell a game in the States produced, let's say, by a Middle-Eastern based game developer and depicting the States as the aggressors in the Irak or the Afghanistan wars and the local people as god-fearing innocent victims? You could have a no GI level where you play the local tribesmen whose mission is to improvise an explosive device to kill the invading US forces? You think your freedom of expression is that strongly protected? That the Senate and Congress and god only knows how many interest group would be in an uproar over that???
Walk a mile in the other guy's shoes.
On the other hand, the Russians are probably just over-reacting.
As long as they can convince themselves that something works, they will believe in it, even if the evidence is negative or just anecdotal.
One has to wonder anyway how alternative medicine could have been aware of the role microorganisms play in our bodies AGES ago when their existence was only discovered fairly recently in human history. This is a typical use of the "old age" fallacy to try to grant authority to woo. Just visit some of the excellent skeptic websites and blogs out there and you'll find a clear debunking of the various fallacies used to convince or seduce the unsuspecting masses (like www.quackometer.net just to name one).
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You're quite right. Just think of all the movies, television series, novels, and video games that routinely portray American characters as terrorists, psychopaths, serial killers, etc. Are any of these being banned by the Gov? No!
On the other hand, do you really think one could sell a game in the States produced, let's say, by a Middle-Eastern based game developer and depicting the States as the aggressors in the Irak or the Afghanistan wars and the local people as god-fearing innocent victims? You could have a no GI level where you play the local tribesmen whose mission is to improvise an explosive device to kill the invading US forces? You think your freedom of expression is that strongly protected? That the Senate and Congress and god only knows how many interest group would be in an uproar over that???
Walk a mile in the other guy's shoes.
On the other hand, the Russians are probably just over-reacting.
As long as they can convince themselves that something works, they will believe in it, even if the evidence is negative or just anecdotal.
One has to wonder anyway how alternative medicine could have been aware of the role microorganisms play in our bodies AGES ago when their existence was only discovered fairly recently in human history. This is a typical use of the "old age" fallacy to try to grant authority to woo. Just visit some of the excellent skeptic websites and blogs out there and you'll find a clear debunking of the various fallacies used to convince or seduce the unsuspecting masses (like www.quackometer.net just to name one).