The front-page article about the "So sick" tongue-in-cheek game Dibbles And Dollars smacks of easy journalistic sensationalism to bring up a picture of poor Sarah Payne and target everything remotely connected (The Argus, December 20).
Nowhere in the game does it say "kidnap child, sexually assault and murder child, leaving body in a shallow grave".
Maybe The Argus should target Hamley's tomorrow for selling Cluedo? They murder people in that one, don't they?
Look at all the computer games out at the moment - how many of them are about crimes such as speeding, shooting and killing? Some are even made into films.
It's the same argument regurgitated. If people can't see the difference between a game and real life, they shouldn't play an active part in society anyway.
And on further reading of The Argus, I found the "hilarious" strip cartoon BN1 making fun of the September 11 disaster and the consequent knock-on effect of thousands losing their jobs in the aviation industry. Very tactful, I must say. Let's hope these poor people don't turn to heroin or kidnapping kids for money, eh?
-Grant Phillips, Warbleton Close, Brighton
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