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Allow me to explain this complicated issue. Let's assume you're right about playing an incest game being no more damaging that playing a homicide game. Then it'

Allow me to explain this complicated issue. Let's assume you're right about playing an incest game being no more damaging that playing a homicide game. Then it's fair to reason that playing games involving both incest and homicide is at least twice as damaging as playing only incest games and more damaging than plying only homicide games. To put it in french (with apologies), if a company allows us to eat a half shitcake it's bizarre to argue for full rights over the whole shitcake.

lukev 1y ago
This presumes either of those things are damaging in the first place. There's a difference between fictional depictions and reality. The argument is that if we can understand and accept that difference when it comes to violence, we can also understand and accept it when it comes to sexual content.
- bigbadfeline 1y ago
  > There's a difference between fictional depictions and reality. The argument is that if we can understand and accept that difference It's big if especially for the underage group who are the most involved in game playing. That group is definitely influenced by fiction, they get most of their real world knowledge from... fiction and fictional characters. Even more, since the dawn of humanity fiction has been used to express and discuss social norms and dilemmas. "To be or not to be"... We don't have to guess, there are studies showing increased aggression in the players of violent games and a viral effect of that aggression, propagating to their acquaintances who don't even play such games [1]. It's one of the reasons why silly valley wants to kill government's ability to fund such studies which get in the way of messing up the heads of our kids. [1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6790614/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6790614/
  - asacrowflies 1y ago
    Any source on underage being primary gamers ESPECIALY on PC platform/ steam??? Seems like a weak nonsense THINK OF THE CHILDREN argument when most gamers on steam are 30-40 yo males

lukev 1y ago

This presumes either of those things are damaging in the first place. There's a difference between fictional depictions and reality. The argument is that if we can understand and accept that difference when it comes to violence, we can also understand and accept it when it comes to sexual content.

bigbadfeline 1y ago
> There's a difference between fictional depictions and reality. The argument is that if we can understand and accept that difference It's big if especially for the underage group who are the most involved in game playing. That group is definitely influenced by fiction, they get most of their real world knowledge from... fiction and fictional characters. Even more, since the dawn of humanity fiction has been used to express and discuss social norms and dilemmas. "To be or not to be"... We don't have to guess, there are studies showing increased aggression in the players of violent games and a viral effect of that aggression, propagating to their acquaintances who don't even play such games [1]. It's one of the reasons why silly valley wants to kill government's ability to fund such studies which get in the way of messing up the heads of our kids. [1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6790614/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6790614/
- asacrowflies 1y ago
  Any source on underage being primary gamers ESPECIALY on PC platform/ steam??? Seems like a weak nonsense THINK OF THE CHILDREN argument when most gamers on steam are 30-40 yo males