Dr. Jones brought up Full Spectrum Warrior in one of his classes last year. I’m a guy that tries to find everything funny. It makes everything easier. Hard to find something funny about any of those military training games.
I’ve never been one for shooting or gore in games or movies. It kind of makes my stomach sink. And it’s one thing when it’s sweaty teenagers digitally shooting their friends from up the street. It’s another entirely when games using basically the same engine are used to train our nation’s military.
I know there’s more to it than that, and that they’re an effective teaching tool and save on resources and time. But knowing the people I know who play those kind of games and have been through that kind of training – killing is fun for them. That doesn’t make them all ax murderers and threats to society as a whole, but the value they assign to a human life that isn’t their own does unnerve me.