I hate to trivialise things like this, but bear with me.
Marmite. Some people love it, others hate it. Now, if the people that hated it tried to get it banned because they didn't like it and thought it was disgusting, we'd think they were pretty damn retarded, right? Marmite isn't hurting anyone. A sizeable amount of people might not like it, but that's no reason to ban it completely.
Same with this. Until the people trying to make the case against Rapelay (and other 'rape simulators' - and I hate that term, since the last thing they do is simulate anything. At best, they're a badly-written animated (or sometimes just illustrated) story) can prove that these kinds of games actually have any harmful effects in any way whatsoever, then it comes down to a war of personal tastes. Which is just silly. It basically boils down to 'nah nah, I'm right and you're wrong, I can't hear you lalalalala', which is most definitely NOT how international affairs should be handled.
Hentai-like games (and I say this because if there's one unifying factor in most hentai, it's rape or bondage of some sort) provide an outlet for people who entertain power fantasies, or maybe just have a bit of a dominant side and don't have a sub to go with them. That doesn't mean they will rape people in real life.
People just need to realise that thinking about something is not a crime. You can't get arrested for thinking about murder, you can't get arrested for thinking about rape. I can think about braining my next door naighbour with a frying pan - even write stories about it, or make up a little flash game - but that in no way means I would actually consider going round his house and assaulting him. Like the old kitten killing flash games that were all the rage a few years ago. I seriously doubt anyone who played them actually shot cats with catapults.
Still, people will be people. So long as there is a mainstream, there will be outliers wanting to change it to suit their ideas.
Marmite. Some people love it, others hate it. Now, if the people that hated it tried to get it banned because they didn't like it and thought it was disgusting, we'd think they were pretty damn retarded, right? Marmite isn't hurting anyone. A sizeable amount of people might not like it, but that's no reason to ban it completely.
Same with this. Until the people trying to make the case against Rapelay (and other 'rape simulators' - and I hate that term, since the last thing they do is simulate anything. At best, they're a badly-written animated (or sometimes just illustrated) story) can prove that these kinds of games actually have any harmful effects in any way whatsoever, then it comes down to a war of personal tastes. Which is just silly. It basically boils down to 'nah nah, I'm right and you're wrong, I can't hear you lalalalala', which is most definitely NOT how international affairs should be handled.
Hentai-like games (and I say this because if there's one unifying factor in most hentai, it's rape or bondage of some sort) provide an outlet for people who entertain power fantasies, or maybe just have a bit of a dominant side and don't have a sub to go with them. That doesn't mean they will rape people in real life.
People just need to realise that thinking about something is not a crime. You can't get arrested for thinking about murder, you can't get arrested for thinking about rape. I can think about braining my next door naighbour with a frying pan - even write stories about it, or make up a little flash game - but that in no way means I would actually consider going round his house and assaulting him. Like the old kitten killing flash games that were all the rage a few years ago. I seriously doubt anyone who played them actually shot cats with catapults.
Still, people will be people. So long as there is a mainstream, there will be outliers wanting to change it to suit their ideas.
