Angry Birds

Click on this homicidal bird and go to its homepage.

Angry Birds:  a game in which Genocide and Suicide Bombing are how one wins the game.

Birds catapult into buildings in order to destroy the Pigs who have been stealing their eggs.  Black Birds explode and White Birds drop exploding eggs.    

Let's not forget, also, that this is also fueled by revenge--the birds are "angry"---and destruction without a sense of justice is the aim.  It's about the thrill of wrecking havoc.

Angry Birds is a child of 9/11.  And it is one of the most popular games out there.

Am I the only one who finds this disturbing?  I've never played it; I don't feel the desire to play at suicide bombing.  And I would never tell other people not to.  After all, the desire for murder and suicide lay within us all.

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