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VIDEO_CHILDREN

                                              October 8, 2008
                                              March  17, 2009

                                          Joshua Davis,
An article in "Wired" discusses           "Wired",
Hans Reiser's philosophy about            June 26, 2007
videogames:

[ref]

   "At the end of 2004, as the divorce and
   custody proceedings get under way, Nina asks
   Reiser to stop playing violent videogames          Of course, One wouldn't
   like Battlefield Vietnam with young Rory. [...]"   want to assume that this
                                                      article is a perfectly
   "For Reiser, this is not about videogames;         accurate representation
   it's about life and death. 'Little boys            of Reiser's opinions.
   take to violent computer games like
   monkeys take to trees,' he says in a court                   (There are
   filing. '[They] do not have instincts that                   signs elsewhere
   favor combat rehearsal activities for no                     that Joshua
   reason, they have them because they affect                   Davis is lost
   whether they live or die a significant                       in some Truman
   amount of the time.'  Violent videogames                     Capote fantasy:
   are an ideal way to hone these survival                      Oh boy, I got
   skills, for several reasons, he says. A                      to interveiw a
   kid is clearly not going to become                           murderer in
   battle-hardened in the quiet, idyllic                        prison!)
   neighborhoods of the Oakland hills. Reiser
   believes that history - in, for instance,
   an Electronic Arts videogame set in
   Vietnam - is the best teacher, though he
   is quick to point out that the learning
   process will not necessarily be
   easy. 'Becoming a man normally is
   psychologically traumatic for boys,' he
   says. What matters most, he says, is that
   the exercise 'allows him to achieve
   results in defending family and country.'"

   "Rory has nightmares. When he's awake, he
   spends time drawing monsters and soldiers [...]"



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