What are Killer Games?
According to the “Bundesrat (upper house) Printed Page 2007-0001-0100/ 76-07” they are “game programs, which represent cruel or otherwise inhuman violent actions against human beings or human-like creatures, and enable the player to participate in displayed violent actions of such a type.” Games like these were originally developed for the U.S. military as simulations of war. They have the objective of breaking down the inhibitions which soldiers have against killing, and of increasing their “killer-efficiency.” The U.S. military psychologist David Grossman urgently warns that these methods of conditioning to violence work in the same way with children and teenagers, when they intensively play such violence-oriented programs.
