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Japanese ESRB Bans Rape Depiction In Games
eldavojohn writes "The Ethics Organization of Computer Software (EOCS), now 233 companies strong, and met in Tokyo yesterday to ban a controversial title from Japan known as RapeLay, an eroge game (something much more adult than the more popular dating simulators). It's gotten a lot of press as reviewers have noted at one point the player must force sex on a 12-year-old. More importantly, the large ($353 million annually) adult game industry in Japan will now need to stay away from rape in their games if they wish to remain a member of EOCS. RapeLay seems to be available on Amazon's UK and JP sites, sparking outrage and causing a former US Ambassador to Japan to write an editorial criticizing Japan, saying, 'Only Japan allows people to possess these hideous images without penalty. Six of the G-7 countries have found ways to protect the innocent from being prosecuted for possession of child pornography. Is it not time for Japan to find a way to punish the guilty?' Singapore's Straits Times has more details, pointing out that it's still not illegal to possess these materials in Japan. We discussed this and other games last month in an editorial."
It's like saying hello in Japan!
How we know is more important than what we know.
Well, except for the 12 year old they used for "realistic motion capture". They didn't, but if they had (which is not really that far fetched for a Japanese game) would it still be "no big deal"? Seriously, how far does it have to go before someone is allowed to call it wrong without being labeled an hysteric?
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And I do realize that the intellectual giants behind a lot of this stuff are 24-year-old kids for whom video games and Taco Bell are still Very Important elements of their lives.
Says the guy with the 6 digit ID.
Nice attempt at a troll though, keep working on it.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Yeah because *you never* had an erotic fantasy in your life, right ? Somethign you wished you could do, but didn't because it transgresses what "society" (whoever the fuck they are) considers "normal" behaviour. Posting anonymously because you are full of shit.
"Society" is the organization that has setup the world you live in and provided you with the means to have electricity, your computer, police, laws, taxes and everything else. If you don't like it, go find some country with no effective government and no people (good luck) and see how that goes for you.
It is completely OK to have fantasies that transgress what "society" considers "normal." But if your idea of an erotic fantasy involves raping a 12 year old, than "society" will label you a sick fuck and put you in jail. Hopefully there, you can be raped by someone bigger and uglier than you too. I say this because you really are a sick fuck: Even from an evolutionary perspective, there is nothing advantageous about raping a woman that is not menstruating.
> The American legal system proves they are not.
The current American legal system only proves one thing. That it is screwed up along with just about everything else. Our crime problem is only a mystery to progressives and the mentally infirm... but I repeat myself. Lets examine the life history of the typical hard core criminal sitting on death row.
He grew up in a disfunctional family. The stats on this are too clear to debate. If he even know who his father was he didn't really get a chance to know they guy. And even though the baby daddy is as much of a dysfucntional waste of a life as the kid turned out to be, the kid's odds would have been better if the father had manned up and been a real dad. But mom's subsidized housing doesn't allow a man to stay anyway so it's all a moot point.
He went to a 'school' that more resembled a juvenile detention center than anything else. He didn't learn to read all that well but he learned fast that he could commit pretty much any crime short of murder and it wouldn't matter so he did. Eventually he got old enough to prosecute as an adult for one of his antics and did some time. Now with a criminal record, no education and no other real prospects he will wander aimlessly in the bottom of society for a few years. He will commit various crimes, many violent, get arrested dozens of times and occasionally do short stretches of time in jail/prison. Along the way he will father a couple of kids, just to keep the cycle going. Eventually he will committed a murder that he couldn't plea bargain down on and got sent to death row.
The problem is justice which isn't sure and certain has little deterrent effect. By the time an offender gets sent up for a long stretch or sent to death row they have usually committed a hundred or more felonies, been caught a dozen or more time and convicted multiple times. But they didn't go up the river. They experienced it, all their friends saw that crime pays and we now have whole sections of cities the police fear to enter after dark.
Democrat delenda est
> Your theory is that the US isn't putting *enough* people in jail...
I know this requires a little thinking.... So I'll type slow. (rim shot)
I assert that we aren't putting them in jail soon enough. Most hardened criminals are going to end up spending most of their lives in prison. I am saying we should skip that decade where they go in and out of the criminal justice system before they have assaulted/raped/killed enough people to earn that 25-life sentence and give em ten (and make em serve most of it) on the first violent assault, armed robbery, etc.
1. Doing a decade at 20 means they might get out young enough to actually do something productive and having spent hard time might be motivated to reform. If a few of them end up avoiding graduating to life sentences it just might reduce the prison population. And if doing ten doesn't reform em just put their ass away on the next conviction.
2. If it became common for first time armed robbers to go away for the better part of a decade the incentive to do armed robberies would drop. If nothing else, when nobody in the 'hood knows anybody who has stuck up a convience store and didn't go up they might get the hint... and at least they will all be first timers who won't know what the heck they are doing. Even gang bangers have a rudimentary understanding of risk/reward. Example: for all the urban yodeling about killing cops it isn't too common.
Democrat delenda est