Yeah, murder is a lot worse.Maiev Shadowsong said:[HEADING=2]Murder and rape are not the same.[/HEADING]
A rape victim, though horribly troubled, still has the opportunity to live a life, and even a happy one. Take it from someone who has someone in their family who is a rape victim. Everything she's experienced for all these years; all the wonders and joy, would have been taken away from her if she were killed instead of raped. And you know what? She was able to experience all that because she learned to deal with it. You can still go to work, you can still be with your friends, family. You can actually get to see your golden years and be with someone you love until the end. You can't learn to deal with being killed, you're ******* dead. You don't get the opportunity to live a life, happy or otherwise. To say being killed is better then being raped are the words of a privileged/sheltered person in a first world country who doesn't know what the actual value of a life is, because they haven't lost enough of them.
You're definitely right, I will never know a murder victim, obviously. However I know several people who have had family members and friends murdered, and I have lost people very close to me to other forms of death. The most important people to me, in fact. Is a complete detachment from reality to even hint that is comparable to abuse; rape or otherwise. I'd rather be raped a thousand times over, if it meant just bringing one of those people back...
If people really are so uncomfortable with rape in games to the point they actually try to make an argument that it's worse then murder, maybe (just maybe) we are trying to detract from the fact that we are indeed making far too many games where we slaughter people for fun.