Minesweeper

So, i really felt like writing but i didn't know what to write about. I was a little down and bored and at work so i decided to start playing some minesweeper on my computer. I have to say that off all the games that come with any given PC, minesweeper is the best one for me, although hearts is pretty fun too. Now, as fun as minesweeper is it is a pretty tricky game to understand initially and a hell of a game to try and explain to someone. Nevertheless, i love the game. OK, this blog is not about the game of minesweeper but about a certain group of people affiliated with it. One day I was bored at work and started researching minesweeper (yes, you read that right). Quickly into my research i found out that there is an organization out there that is campaigned for the end of minesweeper because "Windows Minesweeper (Winmine) is an offence against the victims of the mines, and to those who sacrifice themselves, risking their own life, clearing the lands contaminated by these implements," (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/21/windows_minesweeper_is_an_offence/). At first i though this was a joke when i saw it on wikipedia but alas, it is not. There are people out there who believe that someone sitting in there cubicle playing a game that has to do with mines, makes them come to the conclusion that they too can go into the fields and start clearing mines. I play minesweeper semi-regularly and i can tell you that when I'm playing it i always have my camo gear on and am coordinating with my friends, and once I'm done with a puzzle, i call up the pentagon and tell them that they should hire me to be a mine sweeper because 1) it's obviously just like a grid in real life with numbers everywhere and 2) mine sweeping is such an appealing job. I know that there is no way in hell that i can do what those heroic soldiers do on the battlefields, i have no illusions about that. I don't play the game and think less of them, on the contrary, I'm thinking "hey, i can barely do this on a computer and there are people out there who do this in real life and they can't just press the F2 button when they make a mistake". My respect for them actually increases and i never belittle them. That would be the same as saying that WWII video games are offensive towards WWII vets. WHAT? A little more extreme would be saying someone who plays a Madden football game is offending football players and not acknowledging the difficulty of playing professional football. No, i play Madden video games because I have no chance in hell to ever play pro football.
I know that i picked on the people that protest minesweeper the most and i feel kind of bad about that. Not because it wasn't warranted, because it was totally warranted. However, i used the minesweeper example to show how people sometimes need to campaign against something, doesn't really matter what just something. I have no problem with that, i think it is one of the most democratic things that a person could do, however, i do also think that not all causes are created equally. I think causes that directly affect peoples lives are much more pertinent than causes that may "offend" people (i.e. fight against AIDS vs. fight against trans fat). This would probably carry more weight if a person who actually has swept for mines came out and actually said he was offended.
I could be wrong, but I doubt it.