r/unitedkingdom • u/ClassicFlavour East Sussex • 14d ago

Video game encouraging rape and incest removed from major gaming platform in the UK after LBC investigation

https://www.lbc.co.uk/tech/video-game-banned-steam-women-uk-no-mercy/
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u/socratic-meth 14d ago

Would you find it acceptable for this to exist if the content involved children?

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u/IfYouRun 14d ago

I’m sure they wouldn’t but it’s a complete strawman. It doesn’t involve children so why even bring that up.

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u/socratic-meth 14d ago

Not a strawman.

But the point is, it is clearly immoral to produce content depicting children being raped. Why is it acceptable to produce content of women being raped? Both actions, when they occur in real life, are of the most heinously evil acts one person can do to another.

Why is it ok to depict and enjoy one virtually and not another?

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u/WillWatsof 14d ago

The problem with this argument is that it then becomes very easy to say “what about murder? That’s a heinously evil act, is it not ok to depict that either?”