Parent Asks Son to Play Call of Duty According to Geneva Conventions

Parent Asks Son to Play Call of Duty According to Geneva Conventions:

Evan would get to play the game, but before that, Hugh had him look up the Geneva Conventions online, read their provisions, and then the two discussed its history and what they mean. “So the deal is that Evan has to fight according to the rules of the Geneva Convention. If his team-mates violate the Convention [assuming Hugh means online human players] then play stops and Call of Duty goes away for a while.”

As nearly unenforceable as that sounds, a point is made. And it makes a point in a way that seeing a film or reading a book about war can’t. You can discuss why characters in those two media would make the choices they did, but it’s a different thing to explain the choices you would make – and then act accordingly.

via Call Of Duty: World At War: Parent Asks Son to Play COD According to Geneva Conventions.