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The head of the Australian Christian Lobby, Jim Wallace, had an interview with GamespotAU on the possibility of an R18+ games rating for Australia. (see our previous coverage of the topic here, here, and here.)
I’ll paraphrase his argument before I pull actual quotes out.
“I Killed people for a living in the SAS and I know a murder simulator when I see one.”
Yes that really is his argument. And on to the actual quote:
GameSpot AU: Do you support the introduction of a restricted R18+ category for video games in Australia?
Jim Wallace: Obviously we don’t, and the reason for it is I really can’t see how anyone would want to watch and participate in more violent, more sexually explicit, and often deviant games; but I’m particularly concerned about the more violent. I’ll just give you my own personal background to that. I commanded the SAS regiment, and in that role I had to train people for counterterrorist operations. In doing that, and in fact with any military training, you have to break a very natural reluctance–and from a Christian point of view I think it’s a good natural reluctance–by anybody to kill someone else. In order to break that reluctance the military generally–but particularly the SAS because of the time-critical nature of the actions they’re involved with–means you have to break that by two things: the first is simulation and you make that as real as possible. The second is repetition. I think you’d agree that for SAS personnel involved in counterterrorism to do that is a necessary evil so to speak. But for us to be condoning games that did that for the general person out in the community, particularly when we’re going to get some of those people who have a predisposition to violence, simply doesn’t make sense, and it’s not in the individual’s interest, and it’s not in the community’s interest.
Because he trained people to kill through simulations all video games with violence are training the common man to kill.
I had to double check his picture as I thought I was reading the rantings of Jack Thompson.
Separated at Birth?
And when posed the question:
GS AU: Who should choose which content Australian adults view?
The correct answer is not:
JW: We have a system which obviously passes that responsibility to the Office of Film and Literature Classification [Editor's Note: The OFLC is now called the Australian Classification Board], and it’s an organisation set up at arms length from the government and has people who are experienced in this. It has both a classification board and a review board, and it’s quite an appropriate body to do the job.
The correct answer is that Adults can choose for them selves what they feel is appropriate for them to watch. They are Adults capable of making their own decisions.
I am so sick of censorship zealots. They’re not gonna like it when their Bible is put on the censored list for graphic description and promotion of Genocide, Rape, Slavery, Drug Use, Domestic Violence, and a thousand other violent acts.
