Should the United States ban a Japanese "rape simulat

[Onyxmeth]

bdbdbd said:
@Onyxmeth: If you don't like the game, don't play it. What i found disturbing in the review is, that the reviewer seems to be most disturbed about the actions having consequenses.

Anyway, since the game apparently contains child porn, it's automatically banned in most of the countries. Though, since the topic was about US, i don't whether it's illegal there to distribute child porn.

I never had any plans on playing it. However, child pornography is illegal in the US, and I believe this constitutes that. Tell me though, at what point do we draw a line? Do we allow anything imagineable to become a videogame just because virtual representations don't harm anybody? There is a difference between GTA, Manhunt, etc. and this game which tries to act as a simulation of a criminal act. I've yet to see the game where you play a serial killer trying to simulate real life kills. However rape has been in games past more imbedded into the structure of a game(Killer 7) and nobody bitches or cares about it the same way they don't care about the violence in Manhunt or the sex scenes in God of War.

How far to we take this? Do we allow games to become actual simulations of criminal acts just because we don't want to evwentually draw the line somewhere? How about software like Personal Trainer Cooking for criminals that can explain in detail how to commit crimes like murder, rape, etc., give them options to make shopping lists, explain how to commit these crimes and get away, etc.?

You just seem to be of the opinion that anything can be software/games and just because it can prove harmful in real life situations it is not enough to warrant a ban. We should simply not buy it if it doesn't interest us. However, what if software is made that gets increasingly informative and creates a niche audience only of potential criminals? There comes a point in simulation games where only those vastly interested in a subject will want to partake in the game, and then it becomes dangerous territory in my mind showing potential criminals exactly how to commit crimes through software. I make no exceptions to this either, so you can ban the murder, drug dealing, rape, etc. simulations of the world and I will not take a hypocritical stance on any of them.