not to sound like a conservative local pastor but eight year olds should not be playing, like, call of duty even offline
of course i dont think playing violent video game by itself is going to make a kid capable of and willing to commit murder because thats also dumb as shit but children shouldnt be exposed to the concepts of violence and death before they’re able to grasp the implications of it and what effect it can have on them and the way they view the world
“sex is something we dont talk about but violence is just fine” is such a dangerous combination of attitudes
Also not to mention the fact that, as far as I know, all/most of those games have racial undertones, with Arabic people (terrorists) and Russians (Soviet soldiers) as the bad guys and Americans as the heroes whose job it is to slaughter the entire opposition. There are a lot of implications for racism, Western supremacy, and generally toxic patriotism going on there.
