Should it be legal for the military to use war games to induce young people to join?

If cigarette companies cannot use cartoons to promote products, should the military be able to use cool war games on their sites to encourage them to join?
Answer:
I think it it wrong for the military to create a clean way of killing things, this only leads for violence in a young child's life. This truly is no different then other countries taking their children and sending them into the military because it is all showing violence that is wrong and unneeded in a minors life. The game is only giving a war like effect with out the pain causing them to join the military thinking it will be cool that they can kill people and use big guns but it doesn't show them that they can be the ones dieing and not getting up like in the game. I don't mind the military trying to get 18 year old men and women to join the service but when you start aiming for 13 year olds their is something wrong. And say they decide to use the violence before they are in the military and cause death to others by murder or fights in school.This would lead the military to look worse then it already does with trying to get younger minors into the service. I don't know who created this Army game and made it be easy access to anyone that wants to play. Maybe they will see the part that is contradicting what they believe in.

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There are war games everywhere in case you haven't noticed. Are you or the youth of this nation so susceptible that you cannot discern the difference between a game and the real thing?

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No, parents should do a better job of monitoring their children!!

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The only problem I have is the Army"s denial that this is a tool to promote enlistment. It's so obvious. Lying about it only makes them look foolish!

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Youth organizations have served this purpose for almost 100 years. Baden-Powell started it all with his Boy Scouts, soon emulated by the Nazis with their Hitler Youth and Stalin with the Young Pioneers.

These organizations get young people accustomed to discipline and uniforms. They do good work in developing character and healthy lifestyles.

Leni Riefenstahl's famous film "Triumph of the Will" shows how in the early years of the Third Reich, mobilizing the youth was effective and it was beneficial to them - yet served as a means for the older generation to impose its values on the young.

These organizations promoted competitiveness long before computerized war games came into being. Today's Boy Scout working for merit badges is conditioned to become the member of the military gaining his Navy rate or awarded medals and ribbons.

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If you don't want to promote violence then the use of war games to entice enlistment is also enticing violence and furthering the use of violence as a proper means to solve problems. Two wrongs don't make a right.