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Sadly, chess or chess variants themselves (or even many other games, besides some movies, some rap music...) could be argued to have glorified warfare/conflict between people, if one is against that, too. It depends how how impressionable you think some players might be (especially younger ones) that they might go from the playing of CVs stage to trying to imitate something in a game in real life. Even some arguably harmless CVs include the 'wizard' piece type, and, perhaps remotely related, I heard long ago of one person who tried to ban the word 'hello' because it had 'hell' in it.

People go to firing ranges, yet few use arms illegally as a result. There are more known cases of youngsters in fact using guns illegally than perhaps are known to have performed witchcraft successfully (or even if it backfired on them in some horrible way) - the latter may take more knowledge and grownup reading skills, pretending for a moment that most of the modern day world even believes it actually can be performed. If it's any consolation, I believe witchcraft is real enough - however I pray there is never again the need felt for Salem's Witch trials and such...