Video games, especially shooters, are an ideal way to blow off some steam, allowing us to occasionally shoot other characters. But how far we should go? Should we treat other soldiers, POWs and civilians in games, as we would treat them in real life? Should Geneva convention be applied in virtual world too?

A recent study by two Swiss human rights groups has found that videogames allowed gamers to defy the Geneva Conventions, leaving the groups “astonished” by the “practically complete absence of rules or sanctions” in games like Call of Duty.

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