Battlebots is NOT violence

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Posted by Joe Johnson at 04/11/2001 3:58 PM EST


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.


In Reply to: Re: Battlebots is NOT violence
Posted by Dan on 04/11/2001 3:38 PM EST:



I have typed and ALMOST submitted a half dozen messages on this subject.

I am really on the fence on this one.

Yes it is violence, but I don't think it is anywhere near the violence that we see in a typical blockbuster movie nor is it the kind of violence that is as objectionable as say, oh I don't know, boxing.

Yes, this is a kind of blood sport but one where everyone knows that the blood and guts are only feaux blood and guts. Nobody is really getting hurt there.

Maybe my main objection at this point is the treatment that Comedy Central give the competition. It doesn't have to be that way though. That is just the way they have decided to play it.

Who knows, you may yet see a robot with a name something like DrJoesCrabberHammer...

...or maybe not. Time will tell.

Joe J.