[largesse]

I didn't have a good reaction to this article. I suppose it is because it hints at a world where there is no violent conflict and it wants us to believe that we should protect children from knowledge of the world as it is in favor of that made-up one. In way, it's sort of like the view of sex in the Victorian era.

I'm not happy with the amount of violence in the world, but I do think that its presence is an unalterable aspect of the human condition.

We can frame FPSs squeamishly as an aspect of our evil animal nature that we dare not acknowledge, or we can frame them realistically, noting that armed conflict is not going to go away anytime soon and, as pacifistic as we want to be, we do lend legitimacy to armed conflict for defensive ends. The fact that we do does mean that there is a role for that skill as much as we might not want to accept it.