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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
So we should give things like man's inhumanity to man, endless war, endless violence, endless rape a pass?
I don't get it?
Is there something defensible about typical human behavior?
Or are you... "just sayin'"?
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I'm neither "just sayin'" nor accepting of it on the whole. But I think there needs to be an understanding and a common middle-ground met between human nature and social utopia.
Offering an option to explore socially-abhorrent behavior in a safe way (a video game, an anime, a website, a dungeon) is the middle-ground in the case of this thread. Do I think we should just allow people to rape each other? No! Do I think we should try to dissuade people from feeling how they feel though? No!
If we could get all the angry leaders and politicans and warlords to take out their aggression in Battlefield: Bad Company instead of waging wars, wouldn't that be an awesome plan? Sure, it'll never happen universally, but having venues to release your socially unacceptable nuances sure beats having them pent up and then having them actually negatively affect another human being.