It is on the cover of several large volumes about the man’s life. It is shown on the History channel at least once every two or three weeks. The Zapruder Footage, featuring JFK being shot, is in the JFK movie. I am an avid JFK researcher (read the Warren Report) and am currently somewhere in the top 20 on the JFK reloaded high score list. It is a double standard that relies on irrational emotions and not on facts. It is okay, it seems, to shoot or frag an ‘unknown’ Allied or Nazi or Vietnamese soldier, but as soon as you dare recreate the death of a president, then that’s somehow ‘distasteful’ or ‘off limits’. Not only is this game far less violent than most on the market, but it seems that there is a double standard involved in those who oppose it. On the other hand, there is little danger of someone being drawn to emulate the violence in this JFK game, because the situation is so specific, JFK is already dead, and the ‘consequences’ of this personalised killing bring the moral dilemma of assassination to the forefront of people’s minds. This is dangerous from the perspective of promoting violent behaviour, because the generic nature of the violence makes it easier to emulate. In this respect, I can say that a standard war FPS promotes generic violent killing of as many people as possible with outrageous weapons and a depersonalisation of those being shot at. One of the major arguments against violent videogames is that they encourage/promote violence. This game might be ‘distasteful’ but so are so many products on the market. I have killed Hitler personally in video games before, Jonathan, but the lack of ‘real people’ being killed is largely due to the lack of famous assassinations being compatible with writing a war game. What it seems to confirm, through careful simulation, is that the Warren Report’s findings are quite plausible, and thus does a service to those wanting to quieten conspiracy theorists. Firstly, I should point out that while you might not believe that the makers of this game set out to be ‘educational’, the game is quite instructive.
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