Recently I saw an video the congress men (Joseph Lieberman, Byron Dorgan etc) and the others accusing of the violence of the Mortal Kombat and the other graphically violent (and sexual) games, saying it is abhorrent and there is nowhere which could allow such kind of things in the society. (It was 1993).
Not sure how the discussion effected the current public opinions, but the reality is the MK has been evolved with the advent of Maya (3D graphics making tool) and it shows more realistic grotesque scenes FINISHES the opponent.
As United States stands on, even though it allows the religious freedom, the Christianity it may seems natural that they hate and want to expel such kind of immoral and sensitive product.
Eugene Provenzo brings the statistical facts actually the prevailing these kind of games helps racial prejudice to specific groups of people (Japs and Chinese) and contribute to the increase of murder, rape etc.
The situation in Japan is bit different, for example.
Post war Japanese society was totally different from that of Pre war's, chiefly they deployed (and have no other choices to deploy) the morality and legal bindings of U.S, from constitution to culture, they installed so many aspects of United States. In short, they are semi Americanized.
Japanese society is in total one of the safest country in the world.
This does not mean Japanese are morally better than other people, yet although Japanese society allows so called obscene and sensitive entertainment (on which several people accused Japanese hentai culture or junior idol things on Quora and claims they need to catch up with the global standard, in which much higher rate of rape...), they are statistically having much less violent / sexual crime in the other countries.
People who accuses sensitive content and claims the content itself should be restricted misses important things:
(1) The crime occurs not because of the public morality, but the combination of multiple factors (poverty, abuse by parent, etc)
(2) The discussion of increase of murder or the other clime must be discussed with gun control and the poverty issues.
(3) People who accuses sensitive entertainment ignores the benefit of immoral games. It is the buffer and dust-box of potentially dangerous adults and discourages(satisfies) them from harming the actual victims (prisoner's dilemma)
(1) Many adults assumes that the crime can happen because there are some immoral games became viral in public, but the thing is those sensitive games are also prevalent in Japan and somehow Japan is the safest society in the world. So to discuss with fact, in the same situation Japan is much safer than U.S. Why? It is because Japanese social system is much more socialist society than U.S, of which income tax is stupidly high and there are so much taxations in many aspects, so people cannot be ultra rich since the government rip you off a lot of cash and it is going to be re-distributed to the poor. The poverty is one of the greatest motivational factors to radicalize the groups to go for the crime.
(2) Of course in the middle class family, sometimes the murder can happen, and some of it might be triggered by the inappropriate access of the kid to such sensitive material (violent content) but it is the responsibility of parent to educate their kids. They are responsible what to give or not, in the case of recent killings, the parent gave son a gun as birth day present. And we cannot stop the existence of the bad parents and their abuse of their kids, lack of love, and that could be the one of the biggest reason why abhorrent criminals emerges. The point is here, and not the games. Majority of the guys who plays GTF never do the same thing in the reality. Majority of kids (include me at that time), never kill others after playing Resident Eveil. So those congress men blames the wrong target, they claims there are no where to accept such obscene material, and do nothing but oppresses people (and nerds) and finally this could cause them actually to harm others. This is harmful to the society. If the society deploys strict gun control, the crime decreases drastically. If the community and parents monitors each other and if everything (including issues) are transparent, brutality and bullying could be at minimum. So adults chasing for the wrong target.
(3) So it is ultra easy to accuse of 'easy-to-deamonize' activity, such as which is not virtue of Christianity but sort of extension of western colonialism that 'everyone has to be like US', and as a result they destroy the domestic language or cultures. So junior idols as well, I personally never went to such kind of event and I personally don't like it, but this is an ecosystem in which nobody exploited actually, but this is the buffer for the nerds who has such kind of sexual preference (nobody can accuse gay of being gay, right?), so the hentai cartoon as well. It is easy to accuse of such kind of thing and people who accuses of those things can satisfy themselves that they did the moral thing and killed the bad guy. But the thing is once they clean of those buffer-as-entertainment, what happens next is that actual living minors are under potential threat. As Demise of Guys, even though the pornographic content could make adult's sexual intent inactive, (the fiction is much entertaining than reality), the actual existential threat can decrease with these sexual content.
The porn who actually exploits the living victims is not accepted and there are nowhere in the world to accept such kind of thing, it is crime.
But what hentai entertainment or the other violent/sexual game does is we provide the buffer and virtual victims to satisfy those potentially dangerous adults and make them stops there. If it become illegal, there are nowhere for those adults to escape and there are no `prisoners dilemma` like benefit which could protect our kids but those kids could be exposed to the attacks of those adults, this is what is happening in the current U.S, or U.K.
Conclusion
In conclusion I strongly object to the discussion to demonize those entertainment, since the attitude 'such entertainment is nowhere allowed to exist' -like discussion is just ignore the reality and real issue and just accuse what is easy to accuse. In order to protect society and kids, we need to have multi-dimentional approach and strict gun control and financial equality to prevent poverty is the top priority thing to work on. For games, it makes sense that it is mandatory for those games to be categorized appropriately and make it inaccessible to kids, but at the same time we need to think about the already existing adults who have oppression and struggling, who needs help. What they need is not 'the-thing-is-good-and-beautyful-thing' or 'social-isolation', but they need somewhere to escape and release their bad things, in order to let it not happen on the real victims.
WE MUST ENTERTAIN THEM WITH GAMES.
WE MUST NOT ENTERTAIN THEM WITH REAL VICTIMS.
Thanks.
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