Fraggin' or fragging was originally used in Vietnam to mean killing your superior officer in 'friendly fire' so to speak with a fragmentation grenade. It was popularized in the Doom and Quake games to mean a gory killing with a Big F***ing Gun (BFG). We used to get together and play Doom, Quake, Rise of the Triad and other multi-player games where we shot each other up. . .I oftened told them 'you only frag the ones you love.' I think I might have been a weird mom. Cool, but weird.

Many of my Quaker Friends oppose all games that have an element of violence whether it is cops and robbers with toy guns, or green army men and G.I. Joe.

I was always concerned that this type of play would lessen their resistance to violence, so I did a lot of preaching about the difference between game characters and real people. I hope I got the message through about the difference between play and reality. . .I probably did since they rolled their eyes every time they heard me step up to the soap box.