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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Minecraft is disgusting. I wish I had never let my 10 year old play it. It is not the creative, intellectual game it's made out to be. It seems to be about killing -- killing animals, creepers, etc. Yuck.[/quote]

In Minecraft you kill Chickens to get feathers and chicken to eat... if you don't cook the chicken first you get sick.  Important life lesson there.  You kill pigs for meat.  You can use cows for milk or kill them for meat and leather.

[b]So tell me genius... where would we get beef, pork, of poultry if we didn't kill animals?
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My 9 year old loves the game but mostly for the Creative game style.  I recently bought him a book about Redstone circuitry and he has learned a basic understanding of computing logic from it.
http://smile.amazon.com/Minecraft-Redstone-Handbook-Official-Mojang/dp/054568515X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403791339&sr=8-1&keywords=minecraft+redstone

If your 10 year old dwells on the violent aspects of the game maybe you need to be involved with your child's gameplay.  I built a server for my son and I to play together so I could encourage the creative style of gameplay instead of making it purely about killing.  For us the game became more about creating a virtual "Clubhouse" where the two of us and his friends could play and gather even when we couldn't get together in person.[/quote]

Yes, we kill animals to eat them but most of us don't do it for fun. Nice that you had to be insulting too.....[/quote]

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