Tom Bissell reviews Spec Ops: The Line and explores the reasons why we play shooter games. - Grantland
We've arrived in a strange emotional clime when our popular entertainment frequently depicts torture as briskly effective rather than literally the worst thing one human being can do to another — yea verily, worse even than killing. Inflicting pain and suffering on a captive human being because one person feels like it and the other can't stop it … is this not what we're told awaits sinners in hell? Is this not the domain of Satan?
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It is, but maybe that's why video games exist.
To give us the catharsis of such scenarios. Like horror movies or dark graphic novels.
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Give catharsis or give us calluses?
is there a line of departure from one to the other?
I think that calluses are on the path to catharsis. :)
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