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Being someone who worked at Luce's organization for a couple years I can confidently say Luce likes the hyperbole but is otherwise a genuinely smart and good guy. So unless the guy has gotten completely whacky in the last 5 years the comparison to terrorists is likely in a larger context. He was always making comparisons - some were extremely good, others, not so much. I think the choice of terrorist was certainly a poor choice. Too charged to make for a good metaphor.
Also Luce isn't one of those people who sits at a distance and just screams and yells about things he's never seen first hand (sup Fox News + Mass Effect), he regularly would get tickets to concerts, movies, etc to see what was going on in pop culture first hand. I can't say I always agreed with his conclusions every time, but he's not the sort of guy who falls apart at that fact, One of his right hand guys in fact *loved* when people had a differing point of view. Showed you were thinking for yourself instead of just taking what he said as absolute truth.
Anyway, terrorists is way too much, but I think there is certainly a point in the last paragraph up there. At a certain age it can be hard to filter stuff - it can mess with a kid's sense of the world. In that sense I think it of course makes absolute sense to filter entertainment choices at a young age. It's called parenting. I don't think he's anti-games in general by any stretch of the imagination. I think I played more Counterstrike and Starcraft against my coworkers at his organization than anywhere in my life. There was never a problem with it other than people never leaving after hours and coming late the next day. =P
I think there could be more to the story, and he lives in Garden Valley, TX (out by Tyler). It'd be interesting if Shacknews jumped out there and interviewed him and Dave Hasz (the guy I mentioned before) both. Hasz is certainly a bit more pragmatic and less hyperbolic than Luce. And his brother even more so (who when I knew `em was gaming quite a bit).
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