2008/1/17 Bennett Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008-01-17T15:46:31 Bryan Berry: > > I feel very strongly that violent games should not be associated with > > OLPC. > > Who decides? Who draws the line between appropriate and > inappropriate? Does anybody with access to email and web get to ban > games for being violent, according to their standards? Or is it just > going to be for a special group? If the latter, what's the criterion > for joining? > > -Bennett
What's wrong with erring on the safe side with a controversial topic like video game violence in a learning setting like the OLPC project. It's easy for the majority of us in the western world who have never been in a violent conflict to take a standpoint on violence in video-games. That's however not the topic I feel. Do you know for sure how playing Doom will affect a Nepali ex child-soldier kid? And do you know for sure what the viewpoints of people from a warzone community will be on a project that 'advertises' playing Doom? I don't know. I'd say the latter might not be such a problem. But I'm not really sure, and it's certainly not an absurd thing to imagine. So why take the chance? What's there to gain? /Ties _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel