Grrrr! Animal lovers bark at dog killing in Call of Duty: World at War
It doesn’t even have to be a real dog. Apparently, killing a dog in a video game is disgusting enough. This is according to the Animal Rights Club of the Academy of Notre Dame, who is protesting the canine killing spree in Call of Duty: World at War (PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Wii, DS), saying that killing animals should not be a form of entertainment. Wow, the game nitpicking doesn’t stop.
It doesn’t even have to be a real dog. Apparently, killing a dog in a video game is disgusting enough. This is according to the Animal Rights Club of the Academy of Notre Dame, who is protesting the canine killing spree in Call of Duty: World at War (PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Wii, DS), saying that killing animals should not be a form of entertainment. Wow, the game nitpicking doesn’t stop.
Breanna Lucci, president of her school’s Animal Rights Club, was hanging out with her brother, who was playing World at War at the time. Sitting right next to her Pomeranian, named Winnie the Pooh, she saw as her brother shot and killed the hostile attack dogs in the game. “This looks horrible!” she said.
So now, Lucci and her band of animal lovers are now “petitioning to heighten disgust” for Call of Duty: World at War. I’m not even sure what a “petition to heighten disgust” is, but yeah, that’s what they’re after. More than a hundred of her schoolmates have already signed the petition, and she hopes to forward it to Activision of Santa Monica, Calif., a subsidiary of Paris-based Vivendi.
“Killing dogs as a form of entertainment … over and over again. That’s one of the objects of the game,” says Lucci. “Parents need to know what they are buying their kids. Killing animals should not be a form of entertainment.” But on the subject of her CoD-playing brother, “My brother is a sweetheart. He won’t be killing dogs after playing. But some people might,” she explained.
“I fear young kids playing these games and thinking it’s all right to do this — because they do it in a video game,” says Danielle Morin, the club’s VP. The game, by the way, already has a “Mature” rating from the ESRB.
As a dog lover, I can’t stand the idea or killing dogs. I’m all for animal rights, and I wouldn’t support any activity that undermines that. But c’mon, lighten up, it’s a game. It’s no different from killing people in games, which you find more often than canine killing sprees, I might add. If people are gonna kill dogs, it won’t be because of the game, but it’s because they’re sickos! Ask Michael Vick.
Back to the video game violence debate again, are we? I guess there will always be people who will blame every form of media for others’ shortcomings. But it all boils down to you – if you’re gonna screw up, you’re the one who’s gonna hit the big house – not the game.
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