Dorks and Pacifists Get Beat Up?

"I just feel that zero tolerance policies and extremism on any end of any spectrum is always a bad idea," says author John Green. "The protagonist of my first novel, Oscar Britain, seesaws all over the place as he tries to make, you know, confident decisions." Do playing games like Call of Duty prepare people to be better soldiers at military hardware? I guess it can give you concepts, but so could reading an article about hands-on work with other people, said writer Mike O'Brien.