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I think sexuality is different to violence. I've heard plenty of stories about people developing weird kinks from porn, or having to turn to weirder and weirder
by kaashif 4y ago
I think sexuality is different to violence. I've heard plenty of stories about people developing weird kinks from porn, or having to turn to weirder and weirder stuff to get off. But I haven't heard of any cases of video games turning people violent.
This is extremely unscientific, I know.
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 4y agoUnfortunately I don't think we have data here to make conclusions, only a few moral intuitions, which historically haven't been the most reliable compasses for navigating these grey areas.
- fennecfoxy 4y agoNah, compare violence in media by sex/age breakdown of the victim. Excluding sexual stuff completely, it's many, many orders of magnitude more acceptable to show the gory killing of a male character on screen than it is to show the same of a woman or child. There are all of these unwritten but extremely obvious rules that dictate what is acceptable & what is not.
- idiotsecant 4y agoOK, let's assume your argument is correct. (which I don't think is true, but let's go with that for now) Let's say that media depicting some kinds of sexual material warps what gives some people sexual satisfaction. ...so? Should my preferences of what I find acceptable and not acceptable in that domain somehow influence what content others are allowed to consume? If the creation of that content actively causes harm, then sure. That content should be restricted. If we are restricting it because you think it's icky and it might lead to other things you find icky than we took a wrong turn somewhere. That's like saying we should outlaw mozzarella cheese because it might lead to the consumption of triple cheese sausage pizza. Neither of those acts hurt me, so why should I care about people choosing to participate in either?