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<blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4658592" data-attributes="member: 40961">These discussions always make me cringe, particularly during the parts where people try to rationally explain how, if its ok to roleplay about murder and slavery and stuffing someone's soul into a sword, then it should be ok to roleplay about rape.&nbsp;My wife just finished watching an episode of Monk. Its a comedy detective show where a neurotic, obsessive compulsive detective solves murders. Its funny, or at least reasonably so. The murders are often quirky, the detective twice as quirky, you get the idea. Its got a bit of an emotional yo-yo effect going on, in that its a comedy about murder, but its decent. I... can't really imagine a tv show about rape that worked that way. You know, with a wacky rapist, an unsympathetic victim, and a light hearted attitude. Just don't think it would work.&nbsp;Its a cultural taboo. Sure. Its not going to be 100% defensible. Objectively, killing someone is a lot worse than rape. I agree. And we joke about that all the time. But, well, welcome to western civilization. Chances are you're going to be staying a while, so you might want to familiarize yourself with some of the cultural mores you'll be encountering during your visit. One is that rape is kind of one of those things you don't joke about in polite company (4chan = not polite company). We have other taboos, just in case you were wondering. We don't like it if you pay your daughter for sex, no matter how fancy of a libertarian defense you construct for consensual, non-procreational incest and prostitution. We hate it if you do naughty things with animals, even though killing them and eating them is probably less pleasant for the, I dunno, wombat or whatever, and we'll mostly let you do that.&nbsp;Its just how we roll around here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadfan, post: 4658592, member: 40961"] These discussions always make me cringe, particularly during the parts where people try to rationally explain how, if its ok to roleplay about murder and slavery and stuffing someone's soul into a sword, then it should be ok to roleplay about rape. My wife just finished watching an episode of Monk. Its a comedy detective show where a neurotic, obsessive compulsive detective solves murders. Its funny, or at least reasonably so. The murders are often quirky, the detective twice as quirky, you get the idea. Its got a bit of an emotional yo-yo effect going on, in that its a comedy about murder, but its decent. I... can't really imagine a tv show about rape that worked that way. You know, with a wacky rapist, an unsympathetic victim, and a light hearted attitude. Just don't think it would work. Its a cultural taboo. Sure. Its not going to be 100% defensible. Objectively, killing someone is a lot worse than rape. I agree. And we joke about that all the time. But, well, welcome to western civilization. Chances are you're going to be staying a while, so you might want to familiarize yourself with some of the cultural mores you'll be encountering during your visit. One is that rape is kind of one of those things you don't joke about in polite company (4chan = not polite company). We have other taboos, just in case you were wondering. We don't like it if you pay your daughter for sex, no matter how fancy of a libertarian defense you construct for consensual, non-procreational incest and prostitution. We hate it if you do naughty things with animals, even though killing them and eating them is probably less pleasant for the, I dunno, wombat or whatever, and we'll mostly let you do that. Its just how we roll around here. [/QUOTE]

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