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This is not a fair comparison. It would be if the original poster had said "personally I have no problem with people trying to have sex with minors, only if the
by tarblog 13y ago
This is not a fair comparison. It would be if the original poster had said "personally I have no problem with people trying to have sex with minors, only if they succeed should they be punished." What he said was more along the lines of, I have no problem with people killing computer generated characters in video games, just don't kill real people.
- Anderkent 13y agoThe comparison is between trying to hire a hitman, and failing because the hitman is an undercover cop, and trying to seduce a child, and failing because the child is an algorithm. In both cases the person fully believes they're interacting with the genuine article.
- jaegerpicker 13y agoHere's the key difference: If I play a video game I KNOW the characters aren't real people. If "they" are soliciting a child thinking that it's a real child, then yeah I think that should be a crime.