Here’s something just hilarious for a Friday. See, a girl at a college saw that you can kill dogs in Call of Duty: World at War. So she has started a petition, which 100 classmates have signed, which she will send to Activision in protest. The hilarious quote:
“Killing dogs as a form of entertainment … over and over again. That’s one o the objects of the game,” says Lucci, 19, a senior at NDA. “Parents need to know what they are buying their kids. Killing animals should not be a form of entertainment.”
via Activision Activism: Students Protest Call Of Duty Dog Killing.
Richard Clark (Co-Founder/Editor-in-Chief) has spent his entire life writing, reading, listening, and playing. He has a Bachelors in Theology from the Baptist College of Florida and has a Master of Arts in Theology and the Arts from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He lives in Louisville, KY where he is the classroom technology manager at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition to writing at Christ and Pop Culture, he is also a staff writer for 
If they are English Bulldogs, then I’d sign that petition. ;-)
Uh, why is this hilarious?
What I found funny about it was that killing dogs in the game is actually secondary to killing people which this girl is apparently totally cool with. A typical oversight from animal activist types.
Killing people, fine. Killing animals though, that’s crossing the line.
Gregs last blog post..So When Did AIG Become FDIC Insured Anyways?
exactly.
But people have already called attention to the people-killing on Call of Duty, right? It seems like the protest is trying to make people aware of another, more “hidden” issue with the game. The petition makes perfect sense to me. Of course, I’m the person who can’t watch any movies depicting violence against animals. I don’t exactly enjoy violence against people, but the difference for me is that people, as God’s image-bearers, can make meaning of suffering. Suffering has no meaning to animals, and this is why I can’t bear to watch it. (This is also why I believe euthanasia is morally acceptable for a suffering animal but not for a human.) So there’s a Christian defense of why violence against animals *might* actually be more disturbing–on an emotional level–than violence against humans.
But it’s not violence against animals anymore than it is violence against humans. It’s not violence at all. What kind of world do we live in when this kind of distinction falls on deaf ears?
The Danes last blog post..20081119.ChurchLies