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Apr 14, 2015 2:17 PM
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/should-it-be-legal-to-rape-and-slay-a-virtual-child/

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The play concerns Morris, an investigator for The Nether—a near-future version of the Internet crossed with virtual reality—who is looking into the Hideaway, a community devoted to letting men have sex with and then axe murder innocent (but entirely virtual) girls. "Papa," the man who runs the Hideaway, has constructed it in the style of a genteel Victorian mansion, all peaceful rooms and gardens and suits and sundresses. He sees nothing wrong with what he has done, and he pushes back against every argument Morris makes for the immorality of the community. Surely, he says, it is better to provide people with virtual outlets for forbidden desires than to have those desires acted on with real children?


I say yes. It is indeed better to act sexually upon something that doesn't possess a consciousness than something that does, and it's even better to do so to something inanimate.
It might just cause child rapists and murderers to go for this safe alternative to fulfill their desire instead of actually going out raping a child, and thus breaking the law.

But is it morally and ethically questionable to do so? Abso-fucking-lutely.

What do you think?

Discuss.

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Apr 14, 2015 2:20 PM
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Of course, as long as it isn't real anything should be allowed. There's of course things that I would think are disgusting and might look at someone differently if I knew they enjoyed it but that shouldn't matter. I've always had the view that someone should be allowed to do anything they want as long as it doesn't hurt others or infringe upon their rights.
Apr 14, 2015 2:23 PM
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doesn't that happen a lot in eroge?
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Apr 14, 2015 2:23 PM
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Of course it should be legal.
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All hail HaXXspetten king of the loli traps!
Apr 14, 2015 2:24 PM
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YorKeY said:
IntroverTurtle said:
Of course, as long as it isn't real anything should be allowed.

Define real? What is real? Is it subjective? If so, women aren't real, therefore it's allowed.

Oxford said:
Actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed


Source: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/real
Apr 14, 2015 2:28 PM
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YorKeY said:
IntroverTurtle said:
Of course, as long as it isn't real anything should be allowed.



Define real? What is real? Is it subjective? If so, women aren't real, therefore it's allowed.
inception memes are outdated
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Apr 14, 2015 2:28 PM
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As long as it doesn't turn into a training/testing grounds for how these creeps plan to act on real children.

But this sounds like it's about a play that involves these things, I'm interested in seeing the play.
Apr 14, 2015 2:29 PM
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Yes.

Those kids in Skyrim pissed me off.
The ones in Fable too.
YorKeY said:
IntroverTurtle said:
Of course, as long as it isn't real anything should be allowed.



Define real? What is real? Is it subjective? If so, women aren't real, therefore it's allowed.
Fuck off
Apr 14, 2015 2:29 PM
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The law isn't there to protect virtual characters.

Morally and emotionally, I am digusted.


Apr 14, 2015 2:30 PM

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Yeah and I bet it would be very popular.
Apr 14, 2015 2:35 PM
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YorKeY said:

Isn't it obvious i was just saying something that didn't make sense on purpose? Hope you feel a bit smarter after "correcting" me.

I never corrected you, as you didn't state anything to correct, as an opinion is subjective. It may be factually incorrect, but that doesn't mean that the opinion itself is incorrect.

I merely gave you a definition as you literally said in your comment: "Define real".
Apr 14, 2015 2:35 PM

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enforcing victimless crimes is a waste of time

of course, one could keep an eye on communities like that, and follow up on statements from members about killing real people
but we can't start caring about people who don't exist

we're already in a world where thousands of virtual characters are killed or raped everyday, some kids, by people with no intentions of moving on to real life

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Apr 14, 2015 2:36 PM

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There will be soccer moms who will call it a simulator, and will say their children can easily access it even though it will be the same moms who bought it for them just like they already do with GTA.
Apr 14, 2015 2:37 PM

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Well, if it's fictional.

A child molestor simulator isn't my cup of tea, but if someone wants to make it who am I to stop them?

Most stores probably wouldn't sell it though.
Apr 14, 2015 2:42 PM

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Cringe, while the sex part isn't the cringe (it's no worse than a loli VN), the murder is but it's fiction so it should be legal.


Apr 14, 2015 2:43 PM

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Caligubro said:
Well, if it's fictional.

A child molestor simulator isn't my cup of tea, but if someone wants to make it who am I to stop them?

Most stores probably wouldn't sell it though.


there are already similar things out there... ;^)

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Apr 14, 2015 3:53 PM
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If you enjoy doing that stuff in games, you need help.
'The way of the wang is long...and hard'
Apr 14, 2015 3:53 PM

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The rape thing seems pretty fucked up
Where the fuck did Monday go?
Apr 14, 2015 3:54 PM

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Yes it should be legal.

While on the topic, any qt2d grils here lookin for bf?
Apr 14, 2015 4:12 PM

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Yes. If not then it should also be equally illegal to rape and slay a virtual adult.

Apr 14, 2015 4:12 PM
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Legal but it is fucked up dawg but i can post more gifs like this doe
Apr 14, 2015 4:35 PM
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Yes. I would have to be charged with war crimes if killing virtual characters was illegal.
Apr 14, 2015 4:38 PM

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GreenSoap said:
What do you think?
Yes.

And to the people above, no, it can't become a "training ground" and it does not influence people into doing such things, that has been proven a fact already.

/thread




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Hitler was good, objectively.
Apr 14, 2015 4:39 PM

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No. That's just sick.
Apr 14, 2015 4:40 PM

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It's the idea that's the most volatile.
Apr 14, 2015 4:41 PM

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Consequent said:
It's the idea that's the most volatile.

Once again o great one, you have blessed this thread.

Apr 14, 2015 4:44 PM

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Ryagan said:
No. That's just sick.
So make illegal all things you see as sick? Sounds like a great idea.

Can we ban all things I think are sick too?
Apr 14, 2015 4:48 PM

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IntroverTurtle said:
Ryagan said:
No. That's just sick.
So make illegal all things you see as sick? Sounds like a great idea.

Can we ban all things I think are sick too?
N-No, you'd ban me, s-senpai...




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Hitler was good, objectively.
Apr 14, 2015 6:41 PM

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This already happens in some VNs.
Apr 14, 2015 6:46 PM
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And remember kids, everything in fictionalized works actually happened by the creators themselves before we made the game!
Apr 14, 2015 6:48 PM

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Yeah, I don't believe in thought-crime
Apr 14, 2015 6:48 PM

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Guts does not approve.
Apr 14, 2015 6:49 PM

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With they way they rely on dishonest and trite gendered cliches for no reason other than to pander to the expectations of the audience, I don't trust this person to write anything interesting, compelling, genuine, or honest regarding the morality of "fake rape". It's the literary equivalent to "le controversy" clickbait.

As for my personal opinion, I don't know. We already do this anyway.
Apr 14, 2015 6:58 PM

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Rarusu_ said:
The law isn't there to protect virtual characters.

Morally and emotionally, I am disgusted.
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Apr 14, 2015 7:00 PM

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Should it be punishable by law? Probably not. Should you partake in it? No you sick fuck. Why the hell do you want children in your fantasies anyway? I have to deal with enough annoying kids IRL.

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Apr 14, 2015 7:18 PM

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Involtus said:
enforcing victimless crimes is a waste of time

of course, one could keep an eye on communities like that, and follow up on statements from members about killing real people
but we can't start caring about people who don't exist

we're already in a world where thousands of virtual characters are killed or raped everyday, some kids, by people with no intentions of moving on to real life

This.

DarkStarr96 said:
The rape thing seems pretty fucked up

But not the axe murder?

GreenSoap said:
But is it morally and ethically questionable to do so? Abso-fucking-lutely.

Rarusu_ said:
The law isn't there to protect virtual characters.

Morally and emotionally, I am digusted.


I get a little annoyed when I see this all-too-common rarefaction of "morality". It's essentially been reduced to a kind of personal/emotional judgment, some attitude you hold viscerally but can't quite put to words.

If you concede that allowing this VR rape-murder is better than the alternative (having no safe outlet), then why do you turn around at the end and imply it's still immoral/unethical? Morality is about human well-being. Something "feeling icky" shouldn't be necessary or sufficient for it to be deemed immoral. If you think this policy's ultimately best for society, stick to your guns and defend it as moral. "Ethics" is not merely shorthand for some Platonic notion of "the pure good form, free-floating and divorced from real world affairs". Cut the relativist bullshit and adulteration of legitimate moral philosophy.
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YorKeY said:
IntroverTurtle said:
Of course, as long as it isn't real anything should be allowed.



Define real? What is real? Is it subjective? If so, women aren't real, therefore it's allowed.

deep
I'd go with emobubbles, but someone else already had it, damn bastard.
Apr 14, 2015 7:33 PM

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like asking should FPS games be legal. come on now
Apr 14, 2015 7:52 PM
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I mean yeah. They're virtual
Apr 14, 2015 8:32 PM

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>linking ars technica
Jesus Christ OP, really?

Moral and ethics don't mean jack shit if it's fucking virtual, you'd have to be clinically retarded to think so.

I regularly commit large scale genocide as I raze entire cities to the ground and put their population to the sword, or burn entire species out of existence as i glass their planets one after the other to rebuild them for my own empire. I've thoroughly enjoyed shooting and dismembering countless thousands, murdered innocent animals and violently beaten up cute Japanese schoolgirls.
Just a couple of hours ago, I gleefully put a APCR shell through the viewport of a IS6, ripping the driver into unrecogniseable shreds and either blowing apart or cooking the rest of the crew alive as the tank went up in flames, and my only response was a little cheer as I turned around to stalk for another target.

The average gamer has killed and destroyed enough to make the worst war criminal blush with embarrassment, but luckily, it's not fucking real.
I'm mentally well adjusted enough to realize the difference between reality and fiction, but whenever people come up with bullshit like this, I see not everyone is as lucky as me. Maybe they should be institutionalized.
Apr 14, 2015 9:06 PM

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Why shouldn't this be made legal? Seriously, how would this be any different from murdering people in a virtual game?

Some people are disgusted way too easily.
Apr 14, 2015 9:15 PM

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my main concern would be how this affects a youths development when one inevitably gets his hands on something like this, either by chance or because some troll suggests it as a "fun" game to play and the kid takes him seriously
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Apr 14, 2015 9:16 PM

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This is an incredibly one sided argument, as there is only one side that isn't retarded.
Apr 14, 2015 9:20 PM

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Kenjataimu said:
my main concern would be how this affects a youths development when one inevitably gets his hands on something like this, either by chance or because some troll suggests it as a "fun" game to play and the kid takes him seriously
A valid concern, but it applies to fucking everything. We can't censor media in deference to the youngest audience. If little kids get a hold of this then the parents fucked up somewhere.
Apr 14, 2015 10:02 PM

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7starkiller99 said:
Legality-wise aside, I'd call this morally objectionable.

It's quite simple really.


It isn't, actually. What makes it morally objectionable?
Apr 14, 2015 10:11 PM

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Solipsistic said:
It isn't, actually. What makes it morally objectionable?
Why, it's doubleplusungood wrongthink of course!
Apr 14, 2015 10:12 PM

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Um... Legal?Yes. Mentally ill and future child molester/psychotic killer? Maybe. I can't see how this could be good for the psychological development of anybody, but whether or not it should be legal... Meh, nobody is getting hurt as long as they can distinguish virtual reality from reality.
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Its not real so who cares, let it be. But if we are talking advanced sentient AI then maybe not?
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Yes it should be legal because it's better if someone lives his fantasies this way.
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