Apparently Matt Damon has no problem with blasphemy, cheating at poker, infidelity, stabbing people with pens and murdering people and stealing their identities. At least as long as it’s only in the movies. While he has played some admirable characters in his career, he’s definitely played some with a more spotty reputation. That fact makes his rationale for not being involved in the upcoming video game based on the Bourne novels by Robert Ludlum much less valid. Apparently Matt Damon was bothered by the game’s violent, interactive nature. Reportedly Damon’s mother is a professor of education who is loudly critical of violent toys, products and video games that promote the violence in films.

Why stop at films though? Years ago when video games were mere eight-bit toys the big concern of the day was the violence in films, particularly action and horror films. Parents cried out for something to be done, and something was: Mortal Kombat. Video games could all of a sudden be just as harmful as films. Nowadays film has more or less stopped being criticized. Why Mr. Damon? Why do you have a problem with digital representations of violence when your live-action ones are much more graphic and disturbing. Forget about the worry of ‘interactive’. If we didn’t have video games it’d just be back to the old-fashioned style of kids running around the house/yard/etc imagining themselves as their favorite heroes from TV and movies, many of whom are prone to acts of violence.