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Its 2014. People are still toting the "videogames lead to violence" crap? Sorry, but no.

Not necessarily - more so that the police force is being explicitly displayed as a military-esque force, and offers the player to role play that gratification. It's not necessarily violence, just the unrealistic depiction of the "role" of police.

This is fiction. The argument that we must avoid certain kinds of tropes in completely fictional narratives strikes me as both unsupportable and a bit repressive.

Completely agreed. We can't question the ethics of applying certain tropes in fictional narratives without also evaluating all the other fictional narrative tropes. Does Payday glorify bank robbery? Does Saints Row glorify gang violence? etc.

Video games are a very expressive medium for narratives, but I've yet to see any conclusive studies showing they actually reinforce any negative values in the people that play them.

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