You have to consider the results, not the process. Many worthwhile things can only be had through accepting pain, I would go so far as to say that any expenditure of energy is painful to some degree. The experience of pain evolved because it was unpleasant, so animals like us would avoid it and not get burnt to death or whatever. I disregard it, and only consider the results of pain. Violent - and real violence is still called dinner.Ī sadist enjoys causing pain, and a masochist enjoys feeling pain. Now 17-year-olds can't play a video game because it's called That we force kids to eat while telling them that hurting animals is wrong. Groups like this always claim that they are concerned aboutĬhildren being desensitized to violence. Have you done for animals lately, besides Who are so concerned about violence, take a look in the mirror. So to the Attorney General and to the so-called "filmĬlassification" office of British Columbia, We can't have you exposed to such violence. Want to kill virtual cows? Sorry, son, you're too young Want to kill real cows? The government will be glad to subsidize In British Columbia pump well over $100 million annually into the economy,Ĭomes from resources owned by the government. How horrible that 17-year-olds might be able to pretend to killĬows in a virtual slaughterhouse. One area that the player fights in is a meat-packing plant,Īnd there are a few cows in a pasture nearby that can be shot (or not). The "animals" that you can "kill and maim" in Soldier of FortuneĪre dogs and cows. In his career, to stamp out cartoon violence, or computer violence, or Is violence against animals more acceptable because it's done atĪrm's length, in gas chambers - or perhaps because they starve toĭeath before their eyes open? Is that same legislator going to vote, Every new litter either ends up in the shelter, orĬrowds some other animals in to be killed. They didn't live long but even if they had, unwanted animals rarely Of babies from their unspayed and unneutered pets. Think about the one in my area who called about an accidental litter Help but think about the pig, or the cow, that at that exact second hasįinally given up its life, and whose muscles will be on a plate laterĪnd when I hear about lawmakers wanting to stop digital violence, I
When I hear about someoneĪbusing a dog, or a horse, or some other "popular" animal, I can't Everyone knows about factory farms already. I'm sure I don't need to describe the conditions under which theseĪnimals live and die. Pounds of pig every year (divide, please, by the edible meat per pig). Of veal - or, let's call it what it is, baby cow. Why? Because inĬomparison to the quick, clean death of the shelter, most animals'Įncounter with humans is bloody and violent.Įvery day, we slaughter and eat tens of thousands of cows,
And we help educateĪdopters, to give the animals their best chance in their new home.Īlso, I'm a vegetarian (vegan, actually). To take in a few animals, those we can find room for, to give them aĬhance at life that lasts longer than seven days. Shelters across the country, dogs, cats, rabbits, and other nonhumanĪnimals are being put to death because nobody will take them. I also work with a local animal rescue organization. Plugin allows four or more flamethrower units on some maps. As far as "victims burning to death," the new Without a difference, since the bloody body parts all start to look the "evisceration," "decapitation," and "dismemberment" (distinctions It's fun to throw a grenade intoĪ knot of unsuspecting enemy soldiers. Or Myth's (smaller, but painfully realistic) arcs ofīleeding limbs that bounce around after an explosion, leaking red into Never played "Soldier of Fortune," but theĪre roughly as bloody as Q3A's giblets of flesh when a rocket hits aĭead body. Here's how I feel about people who complain that animals get killedįor relaxation and burning off some stress, I enjoy fighting someīots in QuakeIII or some human beings in MythII. Mary-Louise McCausland, B.C.'s director of film classification. Violence that results in the horror of evisceration, decapitation,ĭismemberment and victims burning to death," said a report from "Depending on which weapon is used, the participant can enact gory
Mullins, an anti-terrorist mercenary, who kills and maims Soldier of Fortune allows users to assume the identity of John
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