I generally agree, and don't really play much these days anyway, but it's not just about video games, it's about culture.

Like it or not, video games are the prime vehicle for our culture and the most insidious. With movies or tv or books, you are observing and you can objectively say, while watching "I agree with this" or not. With video games, you're actually doing. Many times, moral actions (or facimilies thereof) are required to progress, and get that sweet dopamine hit. How many times have you put a game down because it required you to do something morally wrong?

That's not to say that shooting a kid in a video game is the same as doing so in real life, but it does compartmentalise the choice and reduces it's importance in relation to, say, getting some job done. Over time, I think people get to the point that most of them completely atrophy their moral compass in favour of the progression of their own status quo.

This is far broader than the current issue, but this is why I think video games (and the culture war generally) are important even if we don't participate. It's all well and good to chop wood (and I prefer it) but everyone not as self-possessed as you is currently falling into these traps.