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Originally Posted by MMM
Tsuwabuki would you go so far as to say chances are the vast majority of rape fantasy "players" are men?
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But that is irrelevant.
For example, how many blacks/Jews frequent concerts of bands like Screwdriver, or other Nazi functions? I'm guessing zero, literally.
The main driving force behind banning these things is to do with the discrimination of women (or one of the main forces). But this isn't exclusive to just men, as Nazi gatherings are to whites. It may have more appeal to men, but so dfoes car racing, boxing, and there are female things, too. The point is, females are welcome to part take. Probably overly welcomed, actually.
If you are considering something else to be a valid reason why it should be banned aside lowering women, then please say it. But if this isn't the case, and no one is getting hurt, there should not be a problem with it.
Banning something that has absolutley no negative impact on anyone whatsoever just because you don't like it isn't really supporting any concept of freedom.
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Originally Posted by MMM
Freedom isn't free, and so if we want to live in a world that endorses software where the "hero" is a rapist and protect the rights of people to play it, we have to accept the fact that there could be negative consequences. These negative consequences may be isolated incidents, or they could contribute to a culture (or sub-culture) that (consciously or subconsciously) believes that somewhere in their hearts women enjoy being raped.
The rape fantasy may always exist, for whatever reason, but to endorse the fictional fulfillment of that fantasy means we also have to prepare for and accept the consequences that may come with it.
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This is entirly theoratical, however.
I havn't seen any evidence that this causes rape or anything else negative. Of course, the possibility exists that it does; this is why the police use psychologists to find out every detail about a criminal in cases such as rape, serial killing, pedophilia. You can find the results of what they find, things like "a pedophiles favorite sport to watch is womens gymnastics" LOL.
I'm sure if they were finding rapist facts such as "most rapists collect rape media" then there would be grounds for a serious inquiry. But I don't think this is so.
Even so, if several rapists did claim they liked these things, you'd have to seriously consider if it was just a psychological problem or not, or if these things litterlly are the cause of this.
I mean, you can't ban Doom just coz a couple of kids decided to shoot up their school. It just isn't logical. You'd need proof that Doom effected a seriously large portion of people who played it in this way.
For example, it is easy to ban weed, coz the vast majority of long term smokers suffer serious mental problems after a dozen years or so.
I think you need find another reason.