[QUOTE="bonerboi"][QUOTE="AfterShafter"] Of course no-one here will care. They only care when it's their beliefs/sacred-important things being crapped on in one way or another. Anyone elses'? "LOLZORS I wanna play my games, and everyone else can go ____ themselves!"
I remember commenting in this forum that my great grandfather, a WWII vet, was very upset that people these days made light of the heartwrenching events he had to go through during WWII through glorifying it through video games and a majority of the people said that he could more or less go screw himself.
AfterShafter
Many peeps in US said the same kind of thing when Hollywood started making 9/11 movies.
I don't think any of it is "glorification", as long as the content does not violate any moral boundaries as per the populous the media (game/movie)is geared towards, ala the "allies" or the US, in these particular cases.
Of course you don't think of it as glorification... Because it's not something you feel strongly about. For a man who was actually there, my great grandfather, it's extremely upsetting, and he feels it cheapens what he went through. Why? Because it's something he feels very strongly about, and to see it mass marketed so that kids who have never held a gun in their lives can play at kill the Krauts makes him feel as if the incredible hardships he faced, and what he suffered is being cheapened.
Go figure, most people feel this way about something. Jewish people are usually respected and the Holocaust is never made light of because it's something important to them, something they're sensitive about. Treating the American flag lightly greatly upsets many Americans - I've seen forums of them go into an uproar because of a picture of an actress sitting on one.
As long as its not YOUR hallowed concept/item/place that's being crapped on it's "Oh, ok... It's not that bad." When it is your flag being burned, your hardship being turned into a cash cow, your place of worship being portrayed as a killing field, maybe you'll care... And there will be someone who doesn't have the slightest bit of respect for what's important to you saying "LOL so much for tolerance!" because you're upset that people are treating something sacred to you so lightly.
I appreciate where you (and your grandfather) are coming from, but entertainment media has to draw its content from SOMEWHERE, so how to do so without insulting those that actually lived it? Well, this is a very sensitive area. He, and you, may feel that creating entertainment from a potentially very serious subject is distasteful, but......I suddenly find myself without an answer...do you think that all historic traumatic events should be completely ignored by those in the entertainment industry?
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