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Originally Posted by Markit
I would disagree with the disclaimer because it sounds unnecessarily partisan - besides the issue that MPM2008 pointed out that it is difficult to claim that the movie directly inspired the terrorist attack when it is probably one of several triggers (which is equivalent to saying DOOM inspired the Columbine shootings)
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As well as what's already been mentioned, a key difference would be that
Doom doesn't tell you that your school is full of evil, terrible people. There's a world of difference between
Doom, which contains violence directed at zombies and demons from hell, and
Redacted, which contains a hateful message directed at real people and has inspired people to attack the group it targets.
(Note: the idea that Harris ever made a model of Columbine in
Doom has been thoroughly discredited: the Harris WADs are hard to find because most hosts took them down out of respect, but by all accounts the levels are only remarkable because of who made them, not what they are. Journalists then backpedalled to "looks like a school" which is true only insofar as that Harris' maps contain things like rooms and hallways)