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Father Allows son to play CoD
2009-02-23, 9:54 AM #1
If he observes the Geneva Conventions:

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/22/parent-of-gamer-asks.html

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2009-02-23, 9:59 AM #2
well thats an interesting dynamic

i guess my only question is how does the parent know he's following it or not? does he sit and watch every minute of the game?
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2009-02-23, 10:20 AM #3
Is it me or did it say if his team mates don't follow the convention he's not allowed to play?
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2009-02-23, 10:28 AM #4
in the comments theres a big fight on the teammates business
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2009-02-23, 10:31 AM #5
Like the kid is really going to care that much.
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2009-02-23, 10:37 AM #6
ok we need to make a list of ways one could violate the geneva conventions in each call of duty game in both single and multiplayer
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2009-02-23, 10:48 AM #7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_I#Article_35.-Basic_rules

so far i've got:
No shooting the enviroment. ie, trees, grass, sky and grenades don't go together
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2009-02-23, 10:50 AM #8
So if he shoots a try he has to stop playing? rofl.
2009-02-23, 11:03 AM #9
I take the Jack Bauer approach in CoD.
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2009-02-23, 11:17 AM #10
Originally posted by genk:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_I#Article_35.-Basic_rules

so far i've got:
No shooting the enviroment. ie, trees, grass, sky and grenades don't go together


It seems a bit silly, "You can shoot people, just don't shoot the trees and stuff".
Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.
2009-02-23, 11:21 AM #11
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2009-02-23, 11:25 AM #12
Originally posted by genk:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_I#Article_35.-Basic_rules

so far i've got:
No shooting the enviroment. ie, trees, grass, sky and grenades don't go together


No that seems to just refer to WMDs.

Kroko doesn't read links hahaha. I must remember this in the future so I can easily refute his arguments by posting 404s and claiming they present overwhelming evidence.

2009-02-23, 11:29 AM #13
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Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.
2009-02-23, 11:56 AM #14
Originally posted by The Mega-ZZTer:
No that seems to just refer to WMDs.

Kroko doesn't read links hahaha. I must remember this in the future so I can easily refute his arguments by posting 404s and claiming they present overwhelming evidence.


" It is prohibited to employ methods or means of warfare which are intended, or may be expected, to cause widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment."

it would work for anything that explodes
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2009-02-23, 12:18 PM #15
A grenade or a stick of TNT is not severe damage to the natural environment.
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2009-02-23, 3:42 PM #16
I can't think of any ways to violate the Geneva Conventions in CoD. There are no prisoners of war and no civilians to worry about.

Edit: I'm thinking specifically of CoD4 here. I haven't played the others in their entirety, so I don't know if there were POWs or civilians in those.
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2009-02-23, 5:29 PM #17
Originally posted by genk:
" It is prohibited to employ methods or means of warfare which are intended, or may be expected, to cause widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment."

it would work for anything that explodes


Depends on your definitions of long-term and severe.

If you blew up one tree in your attempts to wipe out the enemy, is that long-term and severe damage to the environment?
It's certainly severe to that one tree, but the environment of the area overall will live on.
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2009-02-23, 5:33 PM #18
Originally posted by Michael MacFarlane:
I can't think of any ways to violate the Geneva Conventions in CoD. There are no prisoners of war and no civilians to worry about.

Edit: I'm thinking specifically of CoD4 here. I haven't played the others in their entirety, so I don't know if there were POWs or civilians in those.


You're a POW at the beginning of CoD:WaW. I don't know if the Japanese guard sticking a lit cigarette in your teammate's face and then slitting his throat with a katana is against the Geneva Convention, but I don't think it matters because I don't think the modern Geneva Convention was around then, and he's not your teammate.
2009-02-23, 8:48 PM #19
The US never actually ratified the document. The kid can do whatever he wants.
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2009-02-23, 9:08 PM #20
mb you need to stop making these copycat threads, they aren't funny. :argh:
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2009-02-23, 10:18 PM #21
[http://camanis.net/lemmings/img/screenshots/lemmings.png]
I guess he couldn't play lemmings either, since they suicide bomb the environment.

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