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Animal Rights Club Protests Call of Duty
Sign a Petition! Show Your Ignorance!
by Coop
The Academy of Notre Dame's Animal Rights Club, who apparently has already made sure that all of the acts of animal cruelty around the country have been ended, has turned their aim towards video games. In this case, the game is Call of Duty: World at War, and the animals are the attack dogs that were actually used during the war by both sides to kill soldiers. After seeing her older brother playing COD, Breanna Lucci, head of her school's club, started a petition protesting the game.
She currently has 100 signatures.
"Killing dogs as a form of entertainment ... over and over again. That's one of the objects of the game. Parents need to know what they are buying their kids. Killing animals should not be a form of entertainment."
She, of course, doesn't comment on the fact that, while killing the "Dogs of War" is a part of the game, murdering hundreds of humans is also a major aspect in the game. In fact, it is a major aspect of the game, and there are likely over one hundred humans killed for every dog. A faculty member added that killing humans was bad too, but it wasn't part of the petition. Another member of the club went on to add:
"I fear young kids playing these games and thinking it's all right to do this -- because they do it in a video game."
This is the kind of story that, as a writer, and being well-informed on the gaming industry, I love. It's not very often that I'm lobbed such an easy, easy joke, but... I don't want to. I want you, the readers, to tell them why they're wrong, why their argument stinks, and why they sound like uninformed children attempting to make a difference, when, in reality, they aren't going to.
Take the pen, it's your turn. Here's the full story, there's plenty more fodder on these dullards.
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Comments
This is frustrating. I want to commend the kids for having a cause, but really, they're just doing what adults do: picking an easy target that can't fight back so they can appear to be doing something noteworthy. If you're going to stand up for animal rights, why not do something for ACTUAL LIVING ANIMALS THAT ARE ALIVE AND EXIST IN REALITY?
Breanna and her club members sound foolish and uninformed. In other words, they sound like dumb teenagers.
Also, what do they seriously hope to accomplish with their petition to "protest" one of the best-selling games of 2008? Oh noes, 100 people that most likely wouldn't have played it anyway won't play Call of Duty: World at War!
Oh, and kudos to the teachers for encouraging this kind of uselessness.
I have always felt that Call of Duty: World at War was little more than a Canine-Murder-Simulator. And that's precisely why I only play Animal Crossing, where I can behave civilly with my animal friends and send them well thought-out and polite letters.
loltim's right. We only need two games ever. COD:WaW for our animal killin' and Mass Effect so's we can do it with some hawt aliens. That will give us both ends of the spectrum with which we can entertain, nay, train ourselves so that we can carry out all of these despicable actions in real life. Because, as every gamer knows, that is the core of our little club. To be trained as murderers and rapists by video games. I'm pretty sure it's in our club charter even...
The petition signatures are most likely from people who aren't ever going to play the game in the first place (note the pictures, that's 14 right there, 14% of the petition), and the rest of the contributors are probably what looks like their phi alpha delta sisters anyway. (No offense, sororities!)
Secondly, while I commend them for doing something that they feel strongly about (and really, who isn't against animal cruelty?) - I have to agree with Sarah -- how about volunteering at an animal shelter for REAL abused animals, since those are the real animals that need help, not pixelated killer nazi dogs.
Why don't they petition against watching Cujo too? Might as well go after those who play Fable 2 - Oh wait - they forgot to do research before they made up their little after school organization? Shucks.
Or better yet, how about instead of petitioning a game they themselves will NEVER play, nor likely any of their liberating-female friends, they petition people / start an organization to rescue injured animals as a result of violence?
Wait, hold on, that cuts into their Saturday night keggers and drinking time.. they might actually have to plan and do something rather than get signatures from those trying to tap the keg...
Ah, there's nothing like taking a bad idea and running with it. And what's better about this is that there's plenty of Stupid Pills going around the world for this to make that much less of sense for people in the know. Wait! What's that Lassie? You just shot at a Saudi-Arabian with an AK-47? Wow, how resourceful you are! Now, bite that dude's balls off!
Yeah. I purposely didn't make any sense to prove a point that wasn't worth proving. I went out of the way to type that meaningless drivel. Have a nice day!