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<blockquote data-quote="Shades of Green" data-source="post: 5267402" data-attributes="member: 3297"><p>As far as I know, Israel had no real gaming scare.</p><p></p><p>However, there IS quite a common prejudice about gaming. Specifically, many mental-health professionals I've talked to think of table-top RPGs in either a neutral or positive way; however, they think that LARPs are played by people with mental issues who can't separate reality from fiction. This is quite strange as I don't think that many mental health professionals think anything negative about improvisation theater, which is, in essence, almost the same as LARPs.</p><p></p><p>This prejudice has also reached the IDF (Israel's military). They reduce the profile scores of recruits who confess to play LARPs due to 'mental reasons'. This has led to the common misconception abroad that "the Israeli military does not recruits RPGers", which is completely incorrect in any case but LARPers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shades of Green, post: 5267402, member: 3297"] As far as I know, Israel had no real gaming scare. However, there IS quite a common prejudice about gaming. Specifically, many mental-health professionals I've talked to think of table-top RPGs in either a neutral or positive way; however, they think that LARPs are played by people with mental issues who can't separate reality from fiction. This is quite strange as I don't think that many mental health professionals think anything negative about improvisation theater, which is, in essence, almost the same as LARPs. This prejudice has also reached the IDF (Israel's military). They reduce the profile scores of recruits who confess to play LARPs due to 'mental reasons'. This has led to the common misconception abroad that "the Israeli military does not recruits RPGers", which is completely incorrect in any case but LARPers. [/QUOTE]
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