MMO Clerks

Not every religious leader wants to decry videogames. To wit, Rabbi Micah Kelber’s recent article in Jewish publication Forward praising Call of Duty: World at War’s unflinching portrayal of the reality of war.
“As a Jew, being involved in virtually ending World War II allows you to
experience the closest thing possible to killing the sense of
victimhood created by the Holocaust,” Rabbi Kelber writes.
“And you do it without actually hurting any real people. In fact, it’s
so satisfying that when you get to shoot down the golden eagle on the
Reichstag, while sniping headshots at flame-throwing Nazis, you simply
don’t want the war to end.”
“The realistic portrayal of violence in video games is often decried.
But those who would disparage these games for being too brutal would be
those who would condemn them for not showing the realities of war. It
is because of its violence that the game ushers in some of the feeling
of the intensity [...]

Original post by Earnest Cavalli