View Full Version : Afghan city closes video game store
Atar1G1rl
07-16-2003, 05:15 PM
Hundreds of shops closed for corruption of their young people. Scary stuff.
Read Here (http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/07/16/afghan.games.ap/index.html)
ApolloBoy
07-16-2003, 05:38 PM
Is it just me, or is Afghanistan returning to its Taliban state?
ManekiNeko
07-16-2003, 06:50 PM
They don't need video games. They can find hours of gratuitous violence just outside their front doors.
It is a load of crap, but hey, whaddaya gonna do. Thought control has been a way of life for many Muslims, and it's been this way for so long that they don't know any other way to live. Hopefully there will be some Afghanis smart enough to take advantage of their brief window of freedom and get the hell out of the country before the iron curtain of enforced religion comes back down.
JR
Daniel Thomas
07-16-2003, 08:16 PM
Is it just me, or is Afghanistan returning to its Taliban state?
Yes, it is, I'm afraid. The Americans have never really secured anything beyond Kabul, and the result is the rule of anarchy by warlords, AQ agents filtering back in, and the return of the Taliban.
A little off-topic, I'm sure, but it's just sad. We haven't learned anything.
kevincure
07-17-2003, 02:14 AM
At the risk of turning this topic off-topic, Afghanistan is in no way reverting to Taliban levels. There is decent FDI flowing into the country, major projects like highways and smaller projects like microloans are moving along slowly but surely, the nation is more or less democratic (at least compared to what it was two years ago) and the Civil War that lasted from 1979-2001 is over. Renegade warlords are beginning to pay the customs duties that they were holding back on.
It's not paradise, but there are no executions in the Kabul Stadium these days.
atomicthumbs
07-17-2003, 03:05 AM
:snipersmile: The parents are to blame... :2gunfire:
Kroogah
07-17-2003, 03:35 AM
:snipersmile: The parents are to blame... :2gunfire:
People who think that video games desensitize us to violence should be shot. LOL
Epicenter
07-17-2003, 05:00 AM
Simply put, I'm just glad I don't live in that hell-hole...
I subscribe to the school of thought that simulated violence (i.e. video games, action movies) provides out an outlet for the natural aggression that is inherent in human nature, thereby reducing the aggressive tendencies that can lead to actual violence in real life.