[ExI] 'RapeLay' video game goes viral amid outrage

[Isabelle Hakala]

Honestly I feel we should have more outlets for people to deal with their
bizarre and socially unacceptable fantasies so that they may work through
them. We make such fantasies such a big huge bad thing that most people
won't deal with what is behind them, thus they build up, and later if there
is a trigger or a break of some sort, the person might actually do the
thing. However, if people could act out these fantasies in a safe way, and
thus deal with what is behind them, I think it would be very therapeutic for
them.

Lots of people have rape fantasies. And it would be a great way for people
to work through them without having to experiment with their significant
other.

The people that would justify that the video game made them think it was ok
to rape people, would simply have come up with some other justification in
their minds, if they would actually rape someone. You can't stop people from
being bad if that is what they are going to be.

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Isabelle Hakala
"Any person who says 'it can't be done' shouldn't be interrupting the people
getting it done."
"Do every single thing in life with love in your heart."


2010/3/31 Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net>

> This has been known of for many years, and is hardly the most
> extreme example out there.  The news is that word of this is
> just now hitting mainstream media.
>
> Pirating is widespread enough that it is available effectively for
> free, though one may have to spend a few hours searching
> (and possibly, have been exposed enough to think of the right
> keywords to search on).  As with any freely available and
> popular* data, it has been archived around the world, and is
> impossible to eradicate by any means that call a lot of
> attention to it.
>
> * Popular precisely because it elicits such a moral panic
> without directly inflicting harm on anyone - with the arguable
> exception of the person playing the game, who has unarguably
> consented.  (At least, from their own point of view, but part of
> the point of such acts is sometimes to demonstrate that their
> own point of view, not the law's or any other person's, is the
> only thing controlling actions like obtaining and playing this
> game.  Since said other points of view declare it "forbidden"
> but fail to convincingly explain the reasons why - and fallbacks
> like "because I will punish you if I find out" only mean that it
> has to be done in stealth, as in the fabled Spartan mindset -
> said other points are rejected.  The disconnect often has to
> do with the value placed on perception by third parties, which
> tends to be higher the older one gets, and thus the more
> aware one is of the reliance one has on the rest of society.)
>
>
> --- On *Tue, 3/30/10, John Grigg <possiblepaths2050 at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> This CNN article tells of public anger against Japanese videogame makers
> who let players commit virtual rape.  I wonder where future technological
> advances will take this matter...  And can the courts and law enforcement
> curtail it?
>
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/30/japan.video.game.rape/index.html?hpt=C1
>
>
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