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Thought police?
#51
RE: Thought police?
(April 5, 2018 at 7:17 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Agree Zilla.
Why then doesn't society ban all violent computer games because the next American high school mass shooter may be just honing their skills in Counterstrike?

Sure, they are just mentally ill.
How can we differentiate between the mental ones and those just having some fun?
Isn't it safer to ban them all "just in case"?

Well, to begin with you can't "hone" shooting skills with a computer game, they're not even close to the same thing. I was trained by a one-legged Marine I later referred to as "Gunny Miyagi". He had me working on his property all summer just to earn the right to shoot a long gun. When I finally piled up the creds to get some trigger time it was very different from what I was expecting. I started shooting "at or near" beer cans. When I left for the Navy four years later I was aiming for "d" in "Budweiser". Realtime experience with firearms won't come from a controller.
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#52
RE: Thought police?
(April 6, 2018 at 12:14 am)ignoramus Wrote:
(April 5, 2018 at 11:46 pm)Shell B Wrote: I keep it in my head like a normal pervert

Isn't differentiating between a normal pervert and an abnormal pervert cutting it pretty fine?
Do we all agree that any/all sexual fantasies we carry out in the privacy of our homes either alone or with consent of other adult(s) is perfectly acceptable to society as long as no-one is getting hurt. Including animals. What about vegetables? Do they have a voice in this?

There isn’t a fine line between my kink and pedophilia. It’s the fucking Pacific Ocean of lines.

I’ve been saying they can keep it in the privacy of their own homes. I’m also saying it isn’t that hard to just not do anything about a sexual desire. Control isn’t hard, and acting like it’s something they have to release takes the onus off them.
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