| WereKitten said: So basically you would also censor Postal, Manhunter, Hitman or - just for example - Gears' multiplayer or Counterstrike. After all, you can play as terrorists there. Anyway, you're still mixing up reality and fantasy, unless you think that every game is a manifesto for the actions it depicts. |
I'm not going to go into specifics and say that should be banned and this shouldn't be banned , that's irrelevant . What I will say is that any game that treats killing as the end and not the means ( In Gears there a ranking systems , k/d ratios , team based competition etc so killing is only part of the experience ) should be scrutinised more heavily than a game that treats killing as the means , this is not to say that killing for a purpose is good , it may very well be the case that all games that involve interactive murder have a negative impact on the human mind ( but that's subject to scientific/psycological research and a whole other argument.)
Rape games IMO push it too far , it would be unrealistic to heavily censor violent games at this stage ( not that , that means it would be a bad thing) but considering our culture and history of violence it's pretty much an unchangeable part of us . I don't think that means we might as well take on rape on board , the less evils the better.
It probably is a double standard to say Yay to murder and nay to rape , but violent media has already been accepted by the media , society etc there's not much we can do about that . But when rape rears it's ugly head I say we knock it out before it get's the opportunity to intergrate itself with society.
In theory it's absurd to be so contradictory but in practice it's neccasery.
