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Well, no I don't mean to allude that Singaporeans find rape to be acceptable, no. But I cannot imagine any scenario in which a woman would deserve to be raped so I attributed it, I suppose, to an ignorance of their mores concerning women and modesty.

And I don't know that it is the Japanese deem rape to be okay, obviously they deem simulations of it to be okay and that I disagree with. But like I said, I certainly don't think it should be illegal nor do I have a particular penchant for banning such things. Rather, I wish people wouldn't want to play them.

I took exception to what I saw as an attempt to rationalize the presence of these themes in video games as being educational. I do not think they are educational and will refer back to my previous statement that if simulated behaviors like these acted upon people in that manner, then people wouldn't be playing them. And I have a distaste, in general, for the furtherance of the exploitation of cruelty and brutality that has been marching steadily forth since the release of the first Faces of Death videos...I've had this discussion around here before, I think. But I think it is absolutely related...and slowly working its way into the mainstream of entertainment. It bothers me, that's all. I see no good coming of it as I think, paradoxically, it distances people from suffering rather than making them closer to it.

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