Swedish father demonized for taking video-gamer kids to real

[Socialist Tera]

A Swedish father has incurred public rage after choosing an original way to explain to his video-gamer kids the realities of real-life war: by taking them to genuine war zones in occupied Syria and the West Bank.

The move no longer appears to be some miscalculated foolhardy decision, once you get acquainted with Carl-Magnus Helgegren – a journalist, university teacher, triathlete, DJ, and systems analyst who speaks five languages.

Helgegren, who shares custody of his children with their mother, wrote in a personal blog entry that a point comes when one simply isn’t able to control everything their kids see.

Leo and Frank, both aged 10, developed an interest for violent video games with a war theme, like many others, before they had reached the mandatory age of 16. So, they brought the issue up with Helgegren, touting the latest installment in the Call of Duty franchise, with its blood, guts, dramatic music, and ultra-realistic action.

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What do you think of it? I am unsure what to think of it at the moment and I am still deciding whose side to take on the issue.

[Allet Klar Chefs]

Seems like a proportionate response and good use of our dying world's last resources, imo.

[Gauthier]

Hate to be the guy's kids. The second they like a particular kind of video game Daddy has to soak the fun with reality.

Call of Duty? Warzone.
Street Fighter? Underground bloodsport.
Sports? Sports.

[Great Kleomentia]

I wish my dad took me out for picnics

But seriously, the dad is an idiot. Taking your kids to actual war zones to show them that "video games are bad" is not something a good father does. You can't control what your child sees, but you do control what your child sees if you intentionally take them to a friggin' war zone. He should definitely lose custody.

[Great Kleomentia]

Hate to be the guy's kids. The second they like a particular kind of video game Daddy has to soak the fun with reality.

Call of Duty? Warzone.
Street Fighter? Underground bloodsport.
Sports? Sports.

You like to play video games? OFF TO SYRIA FOR YOU!

[The Two Jerseys]

Surely there are easier ways to get the court to give the mother full custody of the kids...

[Baltenstein]

Hate to be the guy's kids. The second they like a particular kind of video game Daddy has to soak the fun with reality.

Call of Duty? Warzone.
Street Fighter? Underground bloodsport.
Sports? Sports.

Hopefully they'll never buy Silent Hill or Dark Descent.

[Napkiraly]

Heavens forbid they start liking GTA.

"Like trafficking drugs do you? Off to stay with the Los Zetas for you!"

[Costa Fierro]

So I wonder if he'll take them to Los Angeles to teach them about GTA V.

"Kids! We're going to LA!"
"To Disneyland?"
"No, Compton."
"What's Compton?"
"You remember that crack whore you murdered online?"
"Yeah."
"She lived there."
"So?"
"We're gonna meet her family."

[Great Kleomentia]

So I wonder if he'll take them to Los Angeles to teach them about GTA V.

"Kids! We're going to LA!"
"To Disneyland?"
"No, Compton."
"What's Compton?"
"You remember that crack whore you murdered online?"
"Yeah."
"She lived there."
"So?"
"We're gonna meet her family."

Prostituting them seems more realistic to me.

[Gauthier]

And if the kids happen to like Diner Dash? Daddy's going to make them slave under Gordon Ramsay.

[Costa Fierro]

And if the kids happen to like Diner Dash? Daddy's going to make them slave under Gordon Ramsay.

YOU FUCKING CALL THAT A FUCKING PIECE OF TOAST? FUCK.

[Ethel mermania]

well, its russia times, not the most reliable source. but why not.

i am on the dads side, those games do nothing but glorify killing, let the kids see exactly what they are so fond of playing.

[New Terricon]

Man, people like that suck. Some of us play that because that's our only escape for the day.

[Napkiraly]

well, its russia times, not the most reliable source. but why not.

i am on the dads side, those games do nothing but glorify killing, let the kids see exactly what they are so fond of playing.

So you're on the side of child abuse?

[Klesh]

Klesh speaks!

Listing his occupations and hobbies doesn't justify stupidity.

Pretty poor journalist if he couldn't find an alternative means to explain this to a child.

Klesh has spoken!

[Keyboard Warriors]

He should be demonized for his stupidity. Taking your dependents to a war zone to teach them a lesson is purely ridiculous.

[Ethel mermania]

well, its russia times, not the most reliable source. but why not.

i am on the dads side, those games do nothing but glorify killing, let the kids see exactly what they are so fond of playing.

So you're on the side of child abuse?

how is it child abuse?

[Aredshan]

Whilst I usually support parents who'd like to avoid the chance of their kids turning what they learn in video games to reality, taking the kids to a war-zone is a little extreme. Like, very extreme.

[Gauthier]

So you're on the side of child abuse?

how is it child abuse?

Naw, there's nothing wrong with taking kids who like video games to Syria where the bullets and artillery are real and people aren't so picky about targets. Nothing at all.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Could have easily just shown them some war documentaries, there are a lot of good ones out there that would get the message across quickly. Would have been a lot easier and simpler as well.

Hell there are some movies that would do it as well, the likes of Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan and Taegukgi brotherhood of war. They are very brutal and are good depictions of actual war.

Taking them to a volatile region that at any moment could boil over into actual fighting is just stupid.

[Herrebrugh]

So you're on the side of child abuse?

how is it child abuse?

Well, they could have died.

I mean, that tends to happen in warzones, right?

[Costa Fierro]

how is it child abuse?

Well, they could have died.

I mean, that tends to happen in warzones, right?

Especially in Israel.

[Risottia]

A Swedish father has incurred public rage after choosing an original way to explain to his video-gamer kids the realities of real-life war: by taking them to genuine war zones in occupied Syria and the West Bank.

The move no longer appears to be some miscalculated foolhardy decision, once you get acquainted with Carl-Magnus Helgegren – a journalist, university teacher, triathlete, DJ, and systems analyst who speaks five languages...

And an utter cretin. You don't take kids into war zones or into countries filled with criminal gangs who love to abduct Westerners for ransom.

By the way: physicist, journalist, maths and physics teacher, system administrator, scientific consultant, pianist, politician, mountaineer, cyclist who speaks more than eight languages here. Suck it up, Carl-Magnus.

[The Huskar Social Union]

And an utter cretin. You don't take kids into war zones or into countries filled with criminal gangs who love to abduct Westerners for ransom.

By the way: physicist, journalist, maths and physics teacher, system administrator, scientific consultant, pianist, politician, mountaineer, cyclist who speaks more than eight languages here. Suck it up, Carl-Magnus.

Fucking got em!