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Different strokes for different folks. There are plenty of people who find photo realistic gore entertaining.
by matz1 7y ago
Different strokes for different folks. There are plenty of people who find photo realistic gore entertaining.
- jjeaff 7y agoBut as a society, I think there are lines to be drawn on what is a socially acceptable form of entertainment. Not saying the line should be drawn here necessarily, but I don't think chalking it up to everyone being different is acceptable.
- malvosenior 7y agoCouldn't disagree more. We should stop worrying about what other people are doing for entertainment. Totally fine if you don't want to play or watch violent media but judging others and calling their enjoyment unacceptable is a pretty far departure from an open and free society.
- kderbyma 7y agoI disagree with your dismissal as some form of 'free society' bs. Free society is all well and good but we have reasonable laws for a reason. There are some people who find torture amusing and end up serial killers....no offence but their opinion is not equal to every one else's and should be removed from society imo. Just because someone is entertained doesn't not make it acceptable. That's a farce
- malvosenior 7y agoSo are you suggesting laws that censor violent content?
- pkroll 7y ago"There are some people who find torture amusing and end up serial killers..." You've described maybe what, 100 people in the country at this moment? Vs. the 11 million sales of the previous version of Mortal Kombat, and will likely buy this one. So sure, 100 folks remove from the equation, but you do NOT get to take the 11 million who found it entertaining out of the equation.
- antepodius 7y agoHuge crowds watched people kill each other in Colloseums. Huge crowds cheered as people were executed, as a matter of course. It was entertainment. So, were all those societies of the past being harmed and corrupted by their entertainment in a broad-sce way? In a way we can see in retrospect, that caused them to become worse than they already were?
- pvg 7y agoThose societies were worse off because they valued human life less and this was reflected in their entertainment. Seems like a reasonably unobjectionable no-brainer.
- johnchristopher 7y agoYeah, but "no humans or electrical gods were harmed in the making of this video-game" ?
- matz1 7y agoAs individuals the only thing you can do is to fight for your prefered line to be the acceptable one.