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Atrocities said:
My god if they have a problem with it, don't buy it. What next, will they try and pass a law to protect us from our right to choose what kind of card / video / other game we want to buy?
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Would you say the same if it was a game whose object was to see how many 10 year old boys you could sodomize in order to win?
The point being that it's not just *your* opinion that matters, at a certain point one has to admit that society, *as a whole* is harmed by things like this. An analogy: I don't think the FCC should be in the business of busting Janet Jackson for her breatshowing, but what if they showed, instead, a preist buggering a boy, or some giant explicit anal sex orgy on prime time TV, or they had a gameshow where the object was "Who can rape as many goats in an hour wins a million bucks!" ("who wants to be a goat-raping millionaire?" by Fox of course)
The point is, again, no one cares what an individual thinks. We should, and many people do, care about the overall impact to our society - especially as it impacts those members of society least able to protect themselves. We owe it to the children, at the very least, to have some sort of standards.
Do you oppose movie ratings as well? Howabout explicit pornagrphy in high schools? Take your pick - the point is: where do you draw the line?
I personally tend to draw the line by saying that NO ONE has a right to tell ANYONE else what to do in the privacy of their own home as long as all parties are adult and willing participants. You want to get chopped up and eaten like that guy in Germany? Hey, as long as that's ok with you, go to it.
But don;t do it in public. And this game is somewhat public, no?
Remember Rome? I'm the *last* person to be conservative, but neither am I going to accept the uber-Libertarian viewpoint that the government has NO role in society and protecting its weakest members.
That to me is the real measure of the worth and quality of a society: how well does it treat it's least protected members? And that is the real issue here.
Alarik
Oh, and PS: stop blaming liberals for everything you don't like in the world: this is a right-wing nutjob issue - to use your own phrase, look at it with an open mind and you'll see that. When was the last time you heard liberals yell about Hollywood standards?
ta ta