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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by levite
But a rape simulator is just sick. It's nothing but a practice session for creating stalking rapists and child molesters. Sexual violence is just not the same as non-sexual violence. It is personal, psychologically destructive, violating, in ways that-- although to some degree all those things are true for non-sexual violence-- non-sexual violence cannot compare.
If I caught my hypothetical 10-year-old playing GTA, I'd give him a mild chewing out and ground them. If I caught him playing a rape simulator, I would give them a very serious talking-to about sexual violence, and arrange for them to meet a rape crisis counselor and a rape victim, to educate him about what sexual violence means.
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There is no person that is being psychologically destroyed or violated. It is a computer image, avatar, or bits and bytes.
So you'd not discuss and educate your 10 or 16 year old on sexual violence without this simulation coming into your world? Isn't it then a useful device in having you confront the discussion and actually have it with your hypothetical children to discuss the morality and the issues surrounding it? This is the desire of the author in the wired article about torture in World of Warcraft.
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