Slimebeast said:
Million said:
Slimebeast said:
Ail said:
Slimebeast said:
appolose said:
@TheRealMafoo
I'll explain why. Christian virtues. As the U.S. and Europe had a lot of Christian influence put to them, many principles became accepted, and still exist strongly today, even in non-christian organizations. These principles dictate that both murder (and other forms of violence) and adultery are wrong. And as such, these principles have impacted the gaming industry as well (along with many others).
Now, it is these principles that create the radically different attitudes towards sex and violence. As stated above, adultery is forbidden by Christian virtue; but it does not forbid sex. Also the other virtue does not totally forbid violence, just unwarrented violence (such as murder, which is unjustifiable killing). Expounding upon adultery (adultery being sexuality outside of a marriage, Christianity also forbids lust, castigating it as a form of adultery. Therefore, as these virtues are still present in the game industry, ANY sexual display inherently brings with it the possibility of lusting to the player (which, of course, is forbidden), whereas any display of violence does not warrent itself to being justifiable. For example, my parents have much less of a problem with me playing a WWII game then they would for a GTA game.
You might ask why, then, is unwarranted violence allowed today? I think the distincition between warranted and unwarrented violence can easily blurred, what with plot and character and all. So the industry has crept a lot faster towards accepting unwarrented voilence displays over sexual ones.
So that's the main reason (IMHO) why sexuality is far less allowed.
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Blame the christians eh?
How about other cultures that aren't christian? It ever occur to you that they happen to have the same principal moral values?
Or do we see nudity and sex in Japanese and Korean games?
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You can see breasts in tv commercials and even in the news in Europe...
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Yes indeed. And all of Europe is of christian culture. That is why his (appolose's) attack on christianity fails.
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That right there is garbage , you could argue that europe is influenced by christianity moresoe than other religions but here in europe we're not heavily influenced by christianity at all , especially in the Uk.
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Yes I know, but that wasn't the point here. I debunked that guy's quasi argument about christianity being the reason for present day hypocrisy on sex vs violence. .
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Woah, I was not attacking Christianity for anything (see my sig in fact). I was giving the reason for why I thought the sex/violence dichotomy existed. Nor do I neccessarily think it's hypocritical. In fact, from a Christian point of view, such an imbalance makes perfect sense.
About the display of sexuality in Europe: as I said before, sexuality has had a much slower slide towards acceptence than violence, so I would posit that Europe's move towards it has simply been faster than the U.S.'s. I really don't think Europe had such an openness towards public sexuality all along, now have they?
