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April 21, 2005
Ethical gaming
Let's face facts. Even if it were not crippled by dozens of dictatorships, a totally unaccountable bureaucracy and massive institutionalized corruption and criminality the United Nations would still be lame.
You're engrossed in a computer game, flying a helicopter mission at high speed, when the order comes through to drop your load and get back to base.
So what's in the chopper? Bombs? Napalm? No: your cargo is high-energy biscuits. There may be armed rebels a-plenty in Food Force, a new video-game release, but it's not your job to massacre them; instead, you have to negotiate with them to ensure that starving refugees get life-saving food supplies. Welcome to the world of ethical gaming. Food Force is the brainchild of the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
So what's in the chopper? Bombs? Napalm? No: your cargo is high-energy biscuits. There may be armed rebels a-plenty in Food Force, a new video-game release, but it's not your job to massacre them; instead, you have to negotiate with them to ensure that starving refugees get life-saving food supplies. Welcome to the world of ethical gaming. Food Force is the brainchild of the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
Posted by Ghost of a flea at April 21, 2005 09:17 AM
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