Via Metafilter by way of WHAT IS THE WAR?
Tzahal is finally taking steps against a too long ignored threat to Israel, fantasy role-playing gamers.
Does the Israel Defense Force believe incoming recruits and soldiers who play Dungeons and Dragons are unfit for elite units? Ynetnews has learned that 18-year-olds who tell recruiters they play the popular fantasy game are automatically given low security clearance.
“They’re detached from reality and suscepitble to influence,” the army says.
Sure, D & D players are “detached from reality,” as opposed to those who believe that a three thousand year-old tribal religious text should be treated as an enforceable deed of land ownership. I guess there’s good crazy and bad crazy, at least as far as the IDF is concerned.
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