Reply #384: The article said that...

[MellowDem]

the joke was "rape" and the implication of many of the responses on here is that anyone that plays such a game is "sick". Yet, sociopathic behavior is on all of those mainstream crime shows every night, along with a hefty dose of violence, but you never hear people say that those who watch it are somehow sociopaths themselves.

I agree that the game is bad, but I just think that the characterization of it as some sort of corrupting evil that celebrates rape and will influence young men to do horrible things is an old tired canard that we heard throughout the 90s. I think some of the fear of the game's effect on society is an overreaction is all, based on no evidence, and with some evidence actually pointing the other way. I have no problem with people's opinion on the game as entertainment.